Sentences with phrase «earliest sleep researchers»

Dr Barrett says that one of the earliest sleep researchers, Michel Jouvet, found that although kitties lay quietly throughout their sleep, once they've entered into a state of deep sleep, they leap up, stalk, pounce, arch their backs and hiss — looking as if they're hunting mice in their dreams.

Not exact matches

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

«The best thing parents can do is put a baby to bed early enough to avoid overtiredness,» said Jodi Mindell, a therapist and researcher at the Center for Sleep Medicine in Philadelphia and author of «Sleeping Through the Night» (HarperPerennial, $ 12).

There is a body of evidence showing the benefits of synchronizing education times with teens» body clocks; interestingly, while «studies of later start times have consistently reported benefits to adolescent sleep health and learning, there [is no evidence] showing early starts have a positive impact on such things», add the researchers.

In the study researchers sought to test whether earlier findings on the positive effect of neurofeedback on sleep quality and memory could also be replicated in a double - blind placebo - controlled study.

The high prevalence of OSA the study found in these cognitively normal elderly participants and the link between OSA and amyloid burden in these very early stages of AD pathology, the researchers believe, suggest the CPAP, dental appliances, positional therapy and other treatments for sleep apnea could delay cognitive impairment and dementia in many older adults.

«Earlier studies have found a relation between reduced sleep and low - grade inflammation,» says Maria Luojus, MHSc, one of the study researchers.

Delta waves were first identified and described in the early 1900s after the invention of the electroencephalogram allowed researchers to look at brain activity during sleep.

When University of Colorado Boulder researchers sent people camping for a weekend, they found that after the participants returned to civilization, their evening rise in melatonin levels had shifted 1.4 hours earlier, and they went to sleep and woke up earlier than those who had stayed home.

To test whether sleep causes these outcomes, researchers asked parents of students in grades 4 and 6 to put their children to bed earlier or later than usual for three nights in a row (Sadeh, Gruber, & Raviv, 2003).

In fact, sleeping less than seven hours a night is associated with all kinds of health problems: weight gain and obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression — and a higher risk of early death, the researchers found.