Sentences with phrase «sleep laboratory studies»

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.

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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:

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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.

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

Our own laboratory sleep studies of cosleeping / bed - sharing mothers infant pairs (2 to 4 month olds) reveal that both breast feeding mothers and their infants are extremely sensitive throughout their night - across all sleep stages - to the movements and physical condition of the other.

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 1997).

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.

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

«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.»

Insomnia symptoms affect the risk of suicide among people who drink alcohol, according to a groundbreaking study led by the director of Mississippi State University's Sleep, Suicide and Aging Laboratory.

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.

Rolls studied laboratory mice that had been gently handled for four hours to prevent them from sleeping while their comrades dozed.

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.

«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).

They analyzed more than 4,000 studies performed on children aged two to 18 years old, who were referred to one of 13 leading pediatric sleep laboratories around the world for frequent snoring or other signs of obstructive sleep apnea.

It could even help explain road rage, said Matthew Walker, director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory and senior author of the study, which was coordinated with researchers from Harvard University.

The finding, based on a study performed at the University of Chicago sleep laboratory published early online by the journal Diabetes Care, could affect large numbers of people who work long hours.

A long series of laboratory and epidemiologic studies has suggested that cutting back on sleep has a harmful effect on glucose control, insulin secretion and metabolism in ways that might increase diabetes risk, said Eve Van Cauter, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study.

The emotional part of the brain, the amygdala, is much more active when deprived of sleep, finds a study by Matthew P. Walker, PhD, director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of California, Berksleep, finds a study by Matthew P. Walker, PhD, director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of California, BerkSleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

«Our study showed that good sleep is important for healthy sexual desire and arousal in women, even when women are psychiatrically and medically healthy,» said study author David Kalmbach, a researcher at the University of Michigan Sleep and Circadian Research Laborasleep is important for healthy sexual desire and arousal in women, even when women are psychiatrically and medically healthy,» said study author David Kalmbach, a researcher at the University of Michigan Sleep and Circadian Research LaboraSleep and Circadian Research Laboratory.

«People who had five - hour sleep opportunities per night across a simulated workweek gained nearly two pounds,» says study co-author Kenneth Wright, Ph.D., director of the University's Sleep and Chronobiology Laborasleep opportunities per night across a simulated workweek gained nearly two pounds,» says study co-author Kenneth Wright, Ph.D., director of the University's Sleep and Chronobiology LaboraSleep and Chronobiology Laboratory.

To address this possibility, we examined melatonin responses to room light vs. dim light in 116 research volunteers studied in the laboratory under a fixed sleep - wake schedule (8 h asleep, 16 h awake).

And in an ad lib setting, «Laboratory studies in healthy young volunteers have shown that experimental sleep restriction is associated with a dysregulation of the neuroendocrine control of appetite consistent with increased hunger and with alterations in parameters of glucose tolerance suggestive of an increased risk of diabetes» (Van Cauter et al., 2007).

It is unknown whether higher physical exhaustion observed during sleep loss in our study will translate to lower physical activity levels and more positive energy balance in the social — behavioral environment, as suggested by other laboratory findings (37, 38).

Laboratory studies indicate that cardiometabolic stress and cognitive impairments are increased by shift work, as well as by sleep loss.

A 1996 survey of research studies found substantial evidence that less sleep is associated with a decrease in cognitive performance, both in laboratory settings and through self - reported sleep habits.

Researchers locked 12 people into a sleep laboratory for two weeks to study their sleeping patterns with each type of bedtime reading approach.

In Study 2, we brought couples into the laboratory to assess the dyadic effects of sleep on the nature and resolution of conflict.