Sentences with phrase «duration of sleep at»

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In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

Initial consultation of at least one hour duration, to discuss your child's sleep pattern and how to monitor the sleep pattern effectively in order to achieve the best way forward.

Wired at a young age: the effect of caffeine and technology on sleep duration and body mass index in school - aged children.

Interestingly, at baseline, the mean of cry duration (4.96 hours in the massage and three hours in rocking groups), sleep duration (9.29 hours in the massage and 12.24 hours in the rock groups), and infant colic severity were significantly different.

According to a 2014 study from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, office workers with more light exposure at the office enjoyed many benefits, including longer sleep durations, better sleep quality, and better quality of life compared to workers who did not have much exposure to natural light at work.

❍ Look at the clock when your baby begins to cry Make a note of the time your baby begins to cry on your sleep chart and keep track of the duration and intensity of his cries.

Infants who sleep for the duration of their naps actually snooze better at night.

For mothers who enjoy sharing sweet dreams with your baby, the research is affirming — touch and proximity are essential elements of bonding; the hormonal status that enhances bonding is at its most effective during night - time breastfeeding; continued breastfeeding maintains the release of hormones essential for mother - infant bonding, and breastfeeding is more likely to be successful for a longer duration when mothers and infants share sleep.

I am too sensitive to sound and movement and the first 2 nights didn't sleep at all and the duration of the cold, I spent on the couch.

Thus, he is able to sleep for longer durations at night, i.e. 8 hours of sleep during night.

Physiologic studies have demonstrated that, in general, swaddling decreases startling, 301 increases sleep duration, and decreases spontaneous awakenings.310 Swaddling also decreases arousability (ie, increases cortical arousal thresholds) to a nasal pulsatile air - jet stimulus, especially in infants who are easily arousable when not swaddled but less so in infants who have high arousal thresholds when not swaddled.301 One study found decreased arousability in infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddled.

The researchers found no differences in sleep duration between the groups of babies at age 12 months.

This shows that even among those already considered to be at risk for cardiometabolic disease, in this case obese teens» decreased sleep duration was predictive of increased cardiometabolic risk.

The study group comprised 123 healthy adults with a self - reported sleep duration of at least 6.5 hours.

While previous studies have shown a link between sleep duration and obesity, the new work highlights the importance of sleep timing, says Kristen Knutson, a sleep researcher at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

The third new study, looking at the link between sleep duration and obesity in teens, further blunts the idea that physical activity accounts for much of the increase in kids» weight.

«Optimal sleep duration should be promoted, as very long and very short sleep indicate health problems and subsequent sickness absence,» said principal investigator Tea Lallukka, PhD, specialized researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

A new study suggests that among healthy adults with a habitual sleep duration of at least 6.5 hours, late sleep timing was associated with higher fast food consumption and lower vegetable intake, particularly among men, as well as lower physical activity.

«Our results help us further understand how sleep timing in addition to duration may affect obesity risk,» said principal investigator Kelly Glazer Baron, PhD, associate professor of neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

The striking uniformity in the sleep duration and habits of three far - flung groups in Bolivia, Tanzania, and South Africa busts several myths about how much sleep our ancestors got — and what is optimum for modern humans, says Jerome Siegel, senior author of the study and a neuroscientist at the University of California (UC), Los Angeles.

«We see a 1 - hour difference in sleep duration between summer and winter, whereas chronic use of sleeping pills adds at most 15 minutes to sleep time.»

At Korean population level, the evening chronotype was more common in younger women and linked to metabolic diseases with sex dimorphism, independent of lifestyle and sleep duration in subgroup analysis.

Multiple studies have shown valerian root to be successful at improving both the quality and duration of sleep in people suffering from insomnia.

The researchers looked at four sleep problems: self - reported difficulty falling or staying asleep, frequent snoring, sleep duration of less than six hours, and either sleep apnea or rotating shift work.

If that's the case then I practice it too, such as eating at least 4 - 5 hours before bedtime so that the duration of time without food is more than 12 hours (assuming 8 hours of sleep) plus I have a very light «dinner», a small salad plus vegetables juicing only.

Adults need at least 7 hours of sleep for optimal health and even greater durations are recommended for athletes, adolescents, and children.

And to add insult to injury, sleep quality and duration decline as we grow older - at a time when we need the health benefits of a good night's rest more than ever.

To produce white light, these electronic devices must emit light at short wavelengths, which makes them potential sources for suppressing or delaying the onset of melatonin in the evening, reducing sleep duration and disrupting sleep.

In fact, for around three - quarters of her entire sleeping duration, she is merely «snoozing» and can actually wake up at a moment's notice.

According to a research abstract presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies participants who reported a habitual daily sleep duration of eight hours or more including naps were 15 percent more likely to have metabolic syndSleep Societies participants who reported a habitual daily sleep duration of eight hours or more including naps were 15 percent more likely to have metabolic syndsleep duration of eight hours or more including naps were 15 percent more likely to have metabolic syndrome.

First, we hypothesize that adolescents with poor sleep quality or short sleep duration will be at increased odds of prehypertension.

Monitoring sleep quality and duration in children as part of their health supervision may help to identify children who are at risk for both sleep problems and hypertension and who would benefit from behavioral interventions aimed at improving sleep.

The addition of 12 new studies to this review enabled the conduct of meta - analyses of a range of physical (for example, weight, length, head circumference, mid-thigh or leg circumference, salivary cortisol, sleep duration, mean increase in 24 - hour sleep, crying or fussing time, bilirubin), mental (for example, parental stress, infant attachment, parent - infant interaction etc) and developmental (for example, temperament; physical and mental development) outcomes, of which very few achieved statistical significance, or statistical significance was lost at follow - up or following sensitivity analyses.

The most consistent results were a positive association between sleep duration and single measures of salivary cortisol at awakening, which was observed in 3 studies.