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Response Paper 1 (Sample Reaction Paper) Ron Gerrard, HWS Psychology Department      My paper depends on an article from the text’s site (section 9) entitled â€Å"Lack of rest ages body’s systems.† The fundamental case of the article is that lack of sleep has different destructive consequences for the body. The announced impacts incorporate diminished capacity to utilize glucose (like what happens in diabetes) and expanded degrees of cortisol (a pressure hormone associated with memory and guideline of glucose levels). The article likewise quickly insinuates (in the statement at the base of page 1) to vague changes in mind and safe working with lack of sleep.      Intuitively, these outcomes sound good to me. I realize that when I’m restless for any noteworthy measure of time, I start to feel truly hopeless. I additionally appear to be progressively defenseless against colds and other physical illnesses. In contemplating it however, a large portion of the occasions I’m restless are likewise times of mental pressure, (for example, finals week). To the degree that there are changes in my physical prosperity, I’m pondering whether they are because of the lack of sleep, the pressure itself, or a mix of the two.      In standard, a cautious examination ought to have the option to confine the impacts of lack of sleep by denying individuals of rest without pressure and other such puzzling factors. That is by all accounts what this investigation does, yet as I read the article intently, I got myself uncertain that the impacts it reports are fundamentally because of lack of sleep as such.      I understand that a short outline article like this doesn't give all the subtleties of the trial philosophy, yet two or three things that were accounted for in the article struck me as inquisitive. The analysts considered physical working (cortisol levels, and so forth.) in men who had a typical night’s rest (eight hours in bed) the initial three evenings of the investigation, trailed by a time of lack of sleep (four hours in bed) the following six evenings of the examination, lastly a time of rest recuperation (12 hours in bed) the most recent seven evenings of the examination. In announcing the impacts on the body (the conversation of glucose digestion, in the fifth section of the article) the author’s contrast the lack of sleep stage just with the rest recuperation stage, not to typical rest. This appears to me like doing an investigation on intoxication and contrasting the alcoholic stage with the aftereffect stage, while never revealing what happens when the individual is calm.