Sentences with phrase «in sleep laboratories»

In sleep laboratories, dream researchers hook up volunteers to EEGs and fMRI scanners and awaken them mid-dream to record what they were dreaming.

Sears also shares the preliminary findings of studies done (on mothers and babies ranging from two to five months) in sleep laboratories that were set up to mimic the home bedroom as much as possible:

Subjects spent two non-consecutive nights in a sleep laboratory, where an infra - red light source allowed their sleep position during the night to be recorded on video.

The women each slept in a sleep laboratory twice — once in the days leading up to the start of the menstrual period and the other time several days after the menstrual period.

The new relationship between sleepwalking and conscious movement control offers new insights into the brain mechanisms of sleepwalking and could potentially be used to aid diagnosis of sleepwalking while the subject is awake, rather than requiring an overnight stay in a sleep laboratory.

The 97 patients studied had severe sleep apnea, with a median of 48 apnea - hypopnea events (complete or partial interruptions of breathing) per hour on standard testing in the sleep laboratory.

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Cheri Mah, a researcher in the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory, «showed that basketball players at the elite college level were able to improve their on - the - court performance by increasing their amount of total sleep time.&rSleep Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory, «showed that basketball players at the elite college level were able to improve their on - the - court performance by increasing their amount of total sleep time.&rsleep time.»

In 1997, he was recruited by the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Professor and the director of the University of Notre Dame Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory.

These benefits are confirmed by the elegant research done by James McKenna, Professor of Anthropology at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US and his colleagues, (McKenna, J., Mosko, S 1990) who invited 35 mother - baby pairs into a sleep research laboratory, and monitored overnight their sleep patterns as they slept together or in separate rooms.

For their initial study, McKenna and Mosko recruited a group of Hispanic mothers living around Irvine who normally slept with their babies (the practice is common in Hispanic households) and had them do so in a special sleep laboratory.

Professor James J. McKenna's Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory studies how sleeping environments reflect and respond to family needs — in particular how they affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants» physiological and psychological well - being and development.

He was subsequently recruited by the Chairman of Pediatrics at The Albert Einstein School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, NY to join their rapidly growing pulmonology service and to develop their pediatric sleep laboratory.

In a laboratory study, mothers experienced 30 % more arousals when they slept with their infants (Mosko et al 1997a).

Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Endowed Chair in Anthropology Director, Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Evolutionary Perspectives on Mother — Infant Sleep Proximity and Breastfeeding in a Laboratory Setting.

Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Chair in Anthropology Director, Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory University of Notre Dame Author of Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping

Even here in whatever - city - USA, nothing a baby can or can not do makes sense except in light of the mother's body, a biological reality apparently dismissed by those that argue against any and all bedsharing and what they call cosleeping, but which likely explains why most crib - using parents at some point feel the need to bring their babies to bed with them — findings that our mother - baby sleep laboratory here at Notre Dame has helped document scientifically.

Laboratory studies reveal that the average duration of infant and maternal awakenings in the cosleeping environment are shorter on average than the awakenings mothers and babies experience when baby awakens in another room, and requires intervention before going back to sleep (see Mosko et al 1997).

Dr. James McKenna is a leading researcher in the field of bed - sharing and has quite a few studies quoted on the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame website: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/media.html The more important point here is that no professional should tell you what to do.

In our laboratory study of bedsharing compared to solitary sleeping mother - infant dyads bedsharing mothers received more sleep in minutes than did solitary sleeping mothers (Mosko et al 1997In our laboratory study of bedsharing compared to solitary sleeping mother - infant dyads bedsharing mothers received more sleep in minutes than did solitary sleeping mothers (Mosko et al 1997in minutes than did solitary sleeping mothers (Mosko et al 1997).

In the first months of life, «an infant's social, emotional and intellectual skills are slowly maturing,» says James McKenna, PhD, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory.

According to the Mother Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, there should never be other children in the bed if there is an infant present.

A study done in the laboratory of James J. McKenna, Ph.D. of co-sleepers, 2 to 4 month olds, reveals that breastfeeding mums and their infants are highly sensitive throughout the night — throughout all sleep stages — to the movements and physical condition of the other.

The sleep studies done in the laboratory of James J. McKenna, Ph.D. of cosleeping / bed - sharing mother and infant pairs (2 to 4 month olds) reveal that both breastfeeding mothers and their infants are extremely sensitive throughout the night — across all sleep stages — to the movements and physical condition of the other.

Brainstem abnormalities that involve the medullary serotonergic (5 - hydroxytryptamine [5 - HT]-RRB- system in up to 70 % of infants who die from SIDS are the most robust and specific neuropathologic findings associated with SIDS and have been confirmed in several independent data sets and laboratories.37, — , 40 This area of the brainstem plays a key role in coordinating many respiratory, arousal, and autonomic functions and, when dysfunctional, might prevent normal protective responses to stressors that commonly occur during sleep.

Erin Keebaugh, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in Associate Professor William Ja's Laboratory at TSRI, suspected that the systems responsible for caffeine's impact on fly (and maybe human) sleep patterns are more complex than a single caffeine and receptor interaction.

Forty - nine adults participated in the study at the WSU Spokane sleep laboratory.

The results of the research, carried out at York's Sleep, Language and Memory (SLAM) Laboratory, are presented in the journal Cortex today.

«This is the first reliable evidence that a lunar rhythm can modulate sleep structure in humans when measured under the highly controlled conditions of a circadian laboratory study protocol without time cues,» the researchers say.

«This study is an important step toward solving one of the biggest mysteries in biology: the need to sleep,» says study leader Susan Harbison, Ph.D., an investigator in the Laboratory of Systems Genetics at NHLBI.

Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., director of the Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.&rSleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.&rsleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.&rsleep seems to be a luxury.»

This will allow us to research obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women more effectively, and to develop and implement more effective treatments,» said co-author Dr. Suzanne Karan, a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center who is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Anesthesiology Respiratory Physiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

To be sure, this behavior has not been documented in a laboratory setting, where people sleep solo.

Mary Carskadon, director of the Sleep and Chronobiology Research Laboratory at Bradley Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, answers:

Late one night last October, I found myself going to sleep in a familiar place: my office floor at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

«This is an important discovery that confirms the major role of sleep in consolidating cognitive abilities,» explained Roger Godbout, the director of the Sleep Research Laboratory at the Hôpital Rivière - des - Prairies and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Université de Montsleep in consolidating cognitive abilities,» explained Roger Godbout, the director of the Sleep Research Laboratory at the Hôpital Rivière - des - Prairies and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Université de MontSleep Research Laboratory at the Hôpital Rivière - des - Prairies and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Université de Montréal.

«We observed that the more a child had these waves throughout the night, the better the child was at cognitive tasks, particularly the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,» explained Sophie Tessier, a doctoral student in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the Hôpital Rivière - des - Prairies and first author of the paper.

Using electroencephalograms (EEG) that measure brain activity, they recorded how deep and how long each participant's nightly sleep was in a controlled, laboratory setting.

They also spent a night in the Michael S. Aldrich Sleep Disorders Laboratory for polysomnography, an overnight sleep Sleep Disorders Laboratory for polysomnography, an overnight sleep sleep test.

The laboratory study examined sleep patterns in 20 perimenopausal women.

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

Further testing in the laboratory dish showed that hematopoietic stem cells from the sleep - deprived mice responded less strongly than their peers to naturally occurring chemical signals that trigger cellular migration.

Gilles Laurent and members of his laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, describe for the first time REM and slow - wave sleep in a reptile, the Australian dragon Pogona vitticeps.

Nambu arrived at the University of Tokyo as a research assistant and lived for three years in a laboratory, sleeping on a straw mattress spread over his desk (and always dressed in military uniform for lack of other clothes).

Employers, particularly those who operate around the clock, also fail to recognise that their work routines inevitably reduce the effectiveness of their workers, says Charles Czeisler, director of the Laboratory for Circadian and Sleep Disorders Medicine at Brigham and the Women's Hospital in Boston.

STATUS: An initial laboratory trial has shown ApneaApp to be just as effective as hooking up patients to tracking instruments in a sleep clinic, the most common way to screen for apnea.

Because of the scarcity of clinical sleep laboratories and certified pediatric sleep specialists — as well as the high costs, inconvenience for parents and children and the need for overnight staff — only a minority of children with sleep apnea, even in the United States and Europe, are thoroughly evaluated.

«We really never expected that we would be able to decouple the sleep - wake cycle and the eating cycle, especially with a simple mutation,» says senior study author Satchidananda Panda, an associate professor in Salk's Regulatory Biology Laboratory.

«By simplifying the procedure and dramatically reducing the cost, we believe we can evaluate more children who are at significant risk, especially in areas where there is limited access to a pediatric sleep laboratory facility,» said the study's senior author, David Gozal, MD, MBA, professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago and immediate past president of the American Thoracic Society (ATS).

The children's sleep patterns were evaluated overnight in the University of Chicago's pediatric sleep laboratory.