Sentences with phrase «as sleep researcher»

As sleep researcher Matthew Walker explains in his book Why We Sleep, losing just an hour of sleep stresses the cardiovascular system, which can tip some folks with heart issues over the edge.

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In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

As you'd expect, sleep researchers are eager to stress that this isn't license to stay up all night for weeks on end.

According to the researchers, if the same was found to be true in humans, it could not only have implications as a sleep aid, but may also help to curb age - related disease.

Regarded by many of his peers as the world's leading sleep and dream researcher, he identifies the dream state as a distinct, vital «third state» of mental activity to be respected for its unique function.

Researchers found that when children started going to sleep at a more consistent time, their behavior improved as well.

These observations are consistent with current research if we assume the researchers were observing babies with a fairly typical nursing pattern, where baby has a longer sleep period at night and gradually decreases the amount of time between nursing as the day progresses.

At 6 months of age, only 22 % of babies studied who slept on their backs were independently sitting (as compared to the 50 % expected by researchers).

It's also important to note that a frequently cited 2009 study published in the journal Pediatrics found that healthy newborns sitting in a car seat had significantly decreased blood oxygen levels compared to those laying flat and the researchers concluded that infant car seats should be used for car travel and not as a replacement for a flat sleeping surface.

The researchers discovered that infants who routinely sleep with their mothers breast - feed twice as often and for three times longer than babies left in a separate room at night.

Although the kids in the Australian study were selected from the general population (as opposed to a psychiatric practice or sleep clinic), researchers discovered that about 10 % of children complaining of nighttime fears fit the criteria for an anxiety disorder.

When Mindell and her fellow researchers examined data on babies in Asia who slept alone, the quality and duration of their sleep were just as low as babies who co-slept with parents.

And the assumption by pediatric sleep researchers that there is one ideal sleeping arrangement for all, or that cosleeping is harmful and detrimental or that infants need to «consolidate their sleep as soon in life as is possible» is not only fallacious but harmful and it explains why western parents are the most exhausted, disappointed least satisfied, (yet, most educated and well read), I am convinced, than any other parents on the planet, as regards their infant's sleep.

As noted below, most researchers agree that young babies should sleep in the same room where their parents sleep.

As an added note, I am pleased to acknowledge the statement of appreciation of my SIDS and infant sleep research and advocacy for good sciecne, as expressed below by Dr. Brad Gessner, a well respected SIDS researcher from the state of AlaskAs an added note, I am pleased to acknowledge the statement of appreciation of my SIDS and infant sleep research and advocacy for good sciecne, as expressed below by Dr. Brad Gessner, a well respected SIDS researcher from the state of Alaskas expressed below by Dr. Brad Gessner, a well respected SIDS researcher from the state of Alaska.

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

Some researchers link the lower risk to the fact that breast - fed infants do not sleep as deeply as bottle - fed infants.

Researchers have reviewed the most commonly used sleep - training strategies and found that they all worked equally well as long as parents were consistent.

For instance, the researchers wanted to know if the babies had slept on their sides or stomachs, with soft bedding (such as blankets), or in the beds of mothers who smoked.

Researchers from the the National Sleep Foundation have long pointed to changes in hormones as a main cause of sleep problems in wSleep Foundation have long pointed to changes in hormones as a main cause of sleep problems in wsleep problems in women.

The researchers report that South Asian infant care practices were more likely to protect infants from the most important SIDS risks such as smoking, alcohol consumption, sofa - sharing and solitary sleep.

Researchers insist on the importance of teaching babies to regulate their own sleep as soon as possible and to have them sleep enough.

Not only did researchers find that the cry - it - out method was effective as a way to help babies sleep longer, but that in fact, it was not harmful to babies.

As a researcher in SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), Professor McKenna explains that these small transient arousals may lessen a baby's susceptibility to some forms of SIDS which are thought to be caused by failure to arouse from deep sleep to re-establish breathing patterns.

Even the researchers behind the bedsharing cautions agree that by about four months bedsharing by any responsible, nonsmoking adult is as safe as having your baby sleep separately in a bassinet or crib.

Researchers think of night terrors as mysterious glitches in the usually smooth transitions we make between sleep stages each night.

Sleep disorders have been found by various researchers to put stress on parent's emotional and physical resources, put parent - child relationships at risk, affect a child's well being, as well as strain a mother and father's relationship.

Luckily, sleep researchers recommend night lights as a perfectly safe, healthy and effective way to create a positive sleep environment for young children.

Additionally, because infants inhale significantly higher air volume per body weight than adults and sleep a longer time, they experience about 10 times as much inhalation exposure as adults when exposed to the same level of VOCs, the researchers said.

The study reinforced the idea that the processes of sleep and eating need to be studied together, explained the scientists, especially as a growing number of researchers investigate the relationship between sleep and metabolic disorders.

Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (James I Univeristy, UJI) have developed new compounds for the treatment of infectious tropical diseases, such as malaria, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

To separate the effects of poor sleep from other factors that also contribute to a risk of preterm birth, the researchers used a case - control design: 2,265 women with a sleep disorder diagnosis during pregnancy were matched to controls who did not have such a diagnosis, but had identical maternal risk factors for preterm birth, such as a previous preterm birth, smoking during pregnancy, or hypertension.

Pregnant women who are diagnosed with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia appear to be at risk of delivering their babies before reaching full term, according to an analysis of California births by researchers at UC San Francisco.

The researchers found that children whose mothers have insomnia symptoms fall asleep later, get less sleep, and spend less time in deep sleep, as measured by EEG.

As they slept, researchers recorded their electrical brain - wave activity using scalp electroencephalography (EEG).

As sleep declined, rapid - eye movement, or REM — sleep linked to learning and memory (SN: 6/11/16, p. 15)-- came to play an outsize role in human slumber, the researchers propose.

Most other studied primates, including ring - tailed lemurs like these, sleep about as much on average as researchers estimated they should.

The second and third nights the researchers relentlessly bombarded each snoozing participant with recordings of common noises such as toilets flushing, phones ringing and people talking, starting each noise at a low volume and repeating it more and more loudly until the subject was aroused from sleep.

Sound sleep in young and middle - aged people helps memory and learning, but as they hit their seventh, eighth and ninth decades — and generally don't sleep as much or as well — sleep is not linked so much to memory, a Baylor University researcher says.

Unlike humans, zebrafish larvae are transparent, which allowed researchers to watch their brains as they slept.

Studying adolescents in Southern California, researchers found that the association between sleep and alcohol / marijuana use was consistent even after controlling for other known risk factors, such as depression.

Regarding sleep more generally among adolescents, RAND researchers suggest that both individual - level prevention strategies as well as policy - level strategies are needed to improve adolescent sleep.

Now researchers reporting in Current Biology on March 8 have found that sleep spindles also play a role in strengthening new memories when newly learned information is played back to a person as they sleep.

As the researchers collect data in this way on many more people, they hope to come up with new and much more objective ways to measure not just sleep but also sleep quality.

As expected, the researchers saw that memory cues led to an increase in sleep spindles.

Researchers from Warwick Medical School found that adolescent cannabis use is an independent risk factor for future hypomania — periods of elated mood, over-active and excited behaviour, and reduced need for sleep that are often experienced as part of bipolar disorder, and have a significant impact on day - to - day life.

After adjusting for various factors, including age, demographic factors, health behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that black workers in general — and black professionals in particular — were more likely to experience short sleep than whites.

The results were similar after researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect dementia risk or sleep, such as heart disease factors, depression symptoms and medication use.

«Researchers widely acknowledge that receiving inadequate sleep is a serious problem and can potentially contribute to a variety of health complications, such as a weakened immune system or an increased risk for obesity and diabetes,» says Dr. Laura Scheinfeldt, lead author on the paper and a research scientist at Coriell.