Sentences with phrase «university sleep scientist»

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Perri Klass MD, highlights the impact of daytime sleep for young children in her NYT article, «A Child's Nap Is More Complicated Than It Looks» — «Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place... Read More

«Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place shortly after morning awakening.

We started by engaging our own scientists and external experts, including Dr. Jodi Mindell (Saint Joseph's University and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), an internationally known, leading pediatric sleep expert.

Johnson is a research scientist studying sleep, memory, and learning, and is the education manager for internships at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, based at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Many studies have linked more sleep to better memory, but new research in fruit flies demonstrates that extra sleep helps the brain overcome catastrophic neurological defects that otherwise would block memory formation, report scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Sleep scientist Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and his colleagues set out to answer that question.

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep - wake cycle.

The Salk scientists joined forces with a Chinese team led by Ying Xu of Nanjing University to test whether mutations in the equivalent area of PER1 would have the same effect as those in PER2 that caused the sleep disorder.

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.

Washington University scientists found that a lack of sleep could increase the protein amyloid beta, a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease.

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.

Sleep scientists have long recognized the two processes of sleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - SpoSleep scientists have long recognized the two processes of sleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - Sposleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - SpoSleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - Spokane.

Scientists Christian Benedict and Helgi Schiöth, of the Department of Neuroscience at Uppsala University, demonstrated in an previously posted article, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, that only one night without sleep curbed the energy expenditure the next morning.The subjects were healthy, young men with normal weight.

Scientists at The Ohio State University knew that people with sleep disorders or serious sleep deprivation have higher levels of inflammation in their bodies — a risk factor for diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic conditions — than those who sleep normally.