Maas has been teaching Psychology 101 at Cornell for 47 years, with an enrollment of 1,600 students some years, giving him the record for having taught more than 65,000 students in his Cornell career. The book also includes advice on sleep tips for teens, seniors, shift workers, athletes and women who are pregnant or going through menopause as well as time-management advice to combat stress, tips for managing jetlag and guidelines on sleep medications. In the second half of the book, Maas offers strategies for getting a healthy night's rest - from the best and worst bedtime snacks and the ideal bedroom environment to tips on purchasing the perfect pillow and mattress and taming a snoring partner (such as tying a tennis ball to the back of his or her nightshirt to keep the snorer on his/her side and less prone to snoring). The book also includes two tests to help the reader determine how well they sleep, the costs of sleep loss and research findings that link poor sleep with colds, flu, unhealthy skin, weight gain, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, as well as stress, anxiety and depression. She teaches us how to build a healthy sleep ritual, debunks common misconceptions about ZZZs and shares data from a recent study about trendy sleep tech products. Rebecca Robbins, Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Sleep Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. and other measures in studies Maas has conducted. In honor of National Sleep Awareness Month we chatted with Dr. Grades in high school and college are directly related to sleep length as evidenced by the increase in students' G.P.A. and wake up at 11 a.m., yet most high school and college students get 2.5 hours less sleep per night than recommended. Maas' recent studies on high school and college students support the idea that the circadian rhythm of the teenage brain is set to fall asleep at 3 a.m. Their presentations and the new book report such findings as: They are all featured on the book cover and work as part of Maas and Robbins' consulting firm, Sleep for Success, giving presentations on sleeping better to Fortune 500 companies, preparatory schools and such groups as the New York Jets and Orlando Magic. Maas and Robbins wrote the book with significant help from Sharon Driscoll '12 (while she was a sophomore) Hannah Appelbaum '06 (now in graduate school in social work at Emory University) and Samantha Platt '10 (now in physician assistant school). Robbins '09 while she was an undergraduate, Maas presents the latest scientific research on sleep, much of it conducted in his Cornell sleep lab, where he recently studied the sleeping patterns of 450 Cornell students. In the book, co-authored by Cornell graduate student Rebecca S. Humans spend one-third of their lives sleeping, yet 65 percent of Americans are sleep deprived, says sleep expert James Maas, co-author of the new book "Sleep for Success! Everything You Must Know About Sleep but Are Too Tired to Ask" (AuthorHouse).īut just one extra hour of sleep per night can greatly improve a person's mood, alertness, health and productivity, says Maas, professor of psychology at Cornell.
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