Sentences with phrase «family sleep laboratory»

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Professor James J. McKenna's Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory studies how sleeping environments reflect and respond to family needs — in particular how they affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants» physiological and psychological well - being and development.

James McKenna, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, says co-sleeping can be a good choice for some families.

Possibly, mania is a more purely biologically driven phenomenon than bipolar depression, with onsets more readily attributable to medication inconsistency, sleep deprivation, circadian disruption, or behavioral activation.21,22,84 - 86 In contrast, social and familial support has been found to protect against depression in bipolar and unipolar affective disorders, but the role of these variables in manic recurrences is unclear.86 - 88 An analysis of laboratory interactional data from a subset of 44 families in this sample revealed that treatment - related improvements in family communication skills were more closely associated with reductions in patients» depressive than manic symptoms.56 Thus, manic and depressive symptoms may be influenced by different constellations of risk and protective factors.