{"id":163893,"date":"2020-08-26T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=163893"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:49:23","slug":"better-sleep-best-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/08\/better-sleep-best-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Sleep, Best Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44563\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44563 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/kanaan_lg-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Papa Kanaan, M.D.\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/kanaan_lg-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/kanaan_lg-290x420.jpg 290w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/kanaan_lg-69x100.jpg 69w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/kanaan_lg.jpg 346w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 207px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 207\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jennifer Kanaan from UConn Health&#8217;s Sleep Disorders Center specializes in child and adolescent sleep. (Photo by Janine Gelineau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Can better sleep mean better grades, better relationships, and better overall performance? Why do adolescents tend to stay up late and want to sleep in? Should school start later in the morning? Can signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in reality be signs of sleep deprivation? What is actually happening in our bodies when we\u2019re asleep?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Kanaan-Jennifer\">Dr. Jennifer Kanaan<\/a> from UConn Health\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pulmonary\/sleep-disorders-center\/\">Sleep Disorders Center<\/a> joins the UConn Health Pulse podcast to explain how to make good sleep hygiene a priority in your home and how it can help us be our best selves.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hear (or read a transcript of) the entire conversation on the <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/?p=4634\">September episode of the UConn Health Pulse podcast<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMore people think that they need less sleep than they actually do.\u201d Dr. Jennifer Kanaan, sleep medicine expert, tells the UConn Health Pulse podcast, making sleep a priority is a key to optimal performance, especially for adolescents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-163893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 22:20:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171443,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163893\/revisions\/171443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163893"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=163893"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=163893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}