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Sleep secrets.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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After several nights of restless sleep, Ballet Austin's Paul Michael Bloodgood isn't at his best in company class. "It's more difficult to focus," he says. "It takes me longer to find my groove."

There's more to sleep than getting rest. Nearly every physiological process can be compromised. Memory, coordination, metabolism, new learning--all crucial to dancers--are handicapped, as Bloodgood discovered when his ability to learn choreography became impaired after a bad night or two.

"One of sleep's major functions is consolidating short-term memory into long-term memory," says Dr. Aparajitha Verma, a neurologist with The Methodist Hospital Sleep Disorders Center in Houston. "It's as if the brain does a little inventory of what it learned during the...

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