Sentences with phrase «sleep scientists from»

Sleep scientists from the University of Liege used MRI scans to chart the volunteers» brain activity as they performed tests of attention and reaction time.

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Designed in collaboration with NASA scientists, this sleep mask emits red tones that help you fall asleep, and then blue ones to wake you from your slumber.

Hobson, recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sleep Research Society, examines dreaming through the lens of physiology.

Scientists still don't know exactly why some babies die without explanation, but recent research points to the possibility of brain stem abnormalities that prevent some babies from being able to rouse from sleep and gasp for air when their blood oxygen levels are too low.

Whether you were confused as to why your child wasn't sleeping through the night at a week old, or you installed your car seat upside - down and backwards, or you rushed Junior to the ER after you thought you heard him sneeze over your baby monitor that was developed by NASA scientists that you never, ever looked away from, first - time parents do completely insane things.

A new study from scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) offers important insights into possible links between sleep and hunger — and the benefits of studying the two in tandem.

A sleep deficiency of even a small degree can disrupt our lives in a number of ways — from a setback in daily routine to bringing about or exacerbating existing chronic diseases,» said Andrew N. Carr, Ph.D., Clinical Scientist and study co-author, Procter & Gamble.

Second, there is the supposition that copying your brain's connectome — the diagram of its neural connections — uploading it into a computer (as some scientists suggest) or resurrecting your physical self in an afterlife (as many religions envision) will result in you waking up as if from a long sleep either in a lab or in heaven.

Scientists from Japanese sleep institute have a warning for the society about a danger coming from cannabinoid abuse.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — It's far from the ideal therapy, but scientists say a new combination of two old drugs is an important step forward in the fight against sleeping sickness, a long - neglected tropical disease.

Since then, scientists have used the technique to eradicate the screwworm fly, which causes lesions on livestock, from North and Central America; the tsetse fly, which brings sleeping sickness, from Zanzibar; and the pink bollworm, a pest of cotton, from California.

Scientists reasoned that sleep inertia, which can last from 1 to 3 hours, would have only a modest impact on clear thinking compared to cognition problems in the sleep deprived.

On the eve of science writer Katie Worth's experiment to live on Mars time and blog about how it feels, she explains how living between time zones across the universe without guidance from sleep scientists can prove disastrous

Getting enough sleep is an essential part of any athlete's training programme, but a study in the Journal of Sports Sciences reveals intensive bouts of exercise can make it hard to get 40 winks.Suspecting that intense exercise can lead to sleep disturbance, scientists from Loughborough University studied the effects of two nine day periods of heavy training on 13 highly trained cyclists.

Although it might seem that the glowing lights from smartphones and other trappings of modern life reduce people's ability to get a decent amount of shut - eye, scientists now suggest that people do not get any less sleep today than they did in prehistoric times.

Scientists have found the first step toward discovering the biochemistry that controls the switch from wakefulness to sleep.

There has been a great deal of research showing how sleep helps consolidate memories and repair the body, yet many scientists believe that these actions do not fully explain the underlying purpose of sleep, particularly from an evolutionary standpoint.

It drives everything from sleep cycles to metabolism, but the inner - workings of this so - called «circadian clock» are complex, and the molecular processes behind it have long eluded scientists.

For decades now, scientists and experts from all branches of knowledge insist that average adults need 7 - 9 hours of sleep per night in order to function optimally.

Here, we've culled information from scientists, psychologists, therapists and relationship counselors to interpret what 12 different partner sleep positions mean.

Scientists have reported light from electronics has the potential to disrupt sleep, because it sends alerting signals to the brain.

Recently the sleep scientists have been warning of the deleterious effects on our alertness caused by the extra hour of sleep lost or gained at the transition to and from standard to daylight time.