Sentences with phrase «between sleepiness»

This sleep - wake cycle not only helps us move between sleepiness and alertness at regular intervals, it also plays an important role in regulating the immune system.

A new study confirmed the link between sleepiness during the day and the buildup of amyloid in the brain.

Granted, this technique doesn't fly with all parents — finding the sweet spot between sleepiness and wakefulness is tough with some babies — but it's a nice guideline.

Not exact matches

I do have a very hard time deciphering between her being fussy due to sleepiness or boredom.

Additionally, a 2014 study highlights an association between later school start times for this age group and an increase in sleep duration, improved mood as well as reduced daytime sleepiness.

Similarly, there were no differences between the groups on any measure of daytime sleepiness or fatigue.

New York will receive more than $ 10 million as part of a settlement between 48 states and the maker of Provigil, a drug used to treat excessive sleepiness, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced.

Marmorstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers - Camden, examined the associations between alcohol use and four sleep - related issues: initial insomnia; daytime sleepiness; sleep irregularity, defined as the difference in weekday and weekend bedtimes; and disturbed sleep, characterized as nightmares, snoring, sleepwalking, wetting the bed, and talking in sleep.

Our sleep - wake cycle, or circadian rhythm, is the result of a complex balance between states of alertness and sleepiness regulated by a part of the brain called Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SNC); in puberty, shifts in our body clocks push optimal sleep later into the evening, making it extremely difficult for most teenagers to fall asleep before 11.00 pm.

«Interactions between drugs, and other substances, can put older people at a real risk of everything from low blood sugar to kidney damage and accidents caused by sleepiness,» says Preeti Malani, M.D., the director of the poll and a professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School.

Wright says that the discrepancy between our melatonin cycle and our sleep - wake cycle could account for our morning sleepiness — an explanation Dijk calls «an interesting suggestion» that needs more thorough study.

However, the study only found an association between these factors, and did not prove that excessive sleepiness and long naps actually cause metabolic syndrome or diabetes.

The results show a connection between regular physical activity and perceptions of sleepiness throughout the day, suggesting that participating regularly in physical activity could positively influence an person's work productivity, or in the case of a student, affect their ability to focus in class.

Post-lunch sleepiness can stem from a dip in your core body temperature that naturally happens between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm.

Uh, have they had a recent physical, do they have iron poor blood or anemia and they are having difficulty telling the time between fatigue from anemia verses sleepiness.

A number of mechanisms may mediate the association between short sleep and overall or mental well - being, including fatigue or sleepiness during the day38 and the involvement of metabolic and endocrine functions.39 The mechanisms linking long sleep and physical well - being are less clear, possibilities are reverse causation, as longer sleep may be an early symptom of undiagnosed disease, 10 or increased sleep fragmentation.40, 41 However, associations were robust to adjustment for presence of a limiting long - term illness.

ANCOVA (covarying for any between group differences in age, gender, race, and parent occupation) and Cohen's d were applied to determine the difference in daytime sleepiness between children with ADHD - C, ADHD - I, and controls.