Sentences with phrase «for human sleep»

As the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and having spent more than two decades doing sleep research, Walker says there is a strong connection between lack of sleep and disease.

According to Matthew Walker, director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of...

The findings «demonstrate the salutary effects of blocking CSE during apnea and point to a potential therapeutic strategy for human sleep apnea,» according to the authors.

«Moreover, a comprehensive understanding of human - animal co-sleeping has significant implications for human sleep, human - animal relations, and animal welfare.»

«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.

There are two basic types of sleep for human sleep cycles known as REM and non-REM sleep.

Dr. Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.

The Center for Human Sleep Science found that getting less than seven hours of sleep a nigh can be linked to medical ailments like cancer, obesity and poor mental health.

For researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne, the sleeplessness experienced by the fruit fly Drosophila is therefore a model case for human sleeping behavior.

Not exact matches

About 15 years ago Cornell attended the «corporate athlete program» at the Human Performance Institute, making him a zealot for optimizing performance not only with exercise but also with adequate sleep.

Taken from cows at night, the milk's elevated levels of tryptophan and melatonin suggests it could work as a sleep aid for humans.

For instance, recent research on the sleep habits of hunter gatherer bands living much like our long - ago ancestors did found modern humans actually don't get much less sleep than our tribal forebears.

The self system plays a powerful role in enabling persons to meet the two sets of basic human needs — the need for bodily satisfaction (food, sleep, sex, closeness to people) and interpersonal security (esteem, belongingness, acceptance, the power to meet one's needs).

Before we turn off the lights and go to sleep, Bingham's final soothing words tell us that Einstein's insight offers the best definition of science: the «search for the order and harmony of what exists,» and «perhaps that is the ultimate human quest.»

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

It is natural for us as human beings to breathe, sleep, eat, walk, talk — it is part of the nature of the human being to do that kind of thing.

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Life is so much simpler for me — eat sleep, enjoy other doggies and look cute at humans as I munch on burgers I have stolen from their barbecues.

And so Old Adam still will have his day As celebrant at feasts some people keep For flesh and blood that never wake from sleep, This bread and wine of human show and play.

A few reasons why are religious people so stupid: — do not understand Sunday is a day off for many people — they feel it's honorable to post on hobby / interest blogs while at work — do not understand time zones and / or that web sites may be accessed 24/7 by international visitors — do not understand that even within a single time zone humans may have different sleep habits

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Perfect for this mother of a newborn that is surviving on less sleep than a human really should.

For the past 6 million years, human beings have evolved while breastfeeding and sleeping together — whereas a mere 1000 years ago, the Catholic Church recommend that babies sleep in their own cradle.

You are still recovering from major surgery and getting less sleep than usual all while figuring out and caring full - time for a new human.

As I lay there, trying and failing to reach him and too scared to go back to sleep, I thought about how it would be to be a helpless baby or small child, scared and alone in the dark, unable to reach out for the comfort of human contact from those I trusted and loved the most.

Sleeping through the night, as much as it is considered desirable in a child and the pursuit of it fuels lots of book sales, isn't truly normal for human babies and some studies have shown it to lower natural SIDS protection.

I just needed that warm, human connection for a moment to reassure me, and then I'd be able to go back to sleep.

For a new human parent, this helplessness may translate to no sleep, no showers, no ability to do anything but care for the baFor a new human parent, this helplessness may translate to no sleep, no showers, no ability to do anything but care for the bafor the baby.

My baby is 3 wks old & I breastfeed her and I relate to all of you, my son (now 7) used to use me as a human pacifier for a long time but didn't mind, however, now with my daughter, nights seem longer and I am already tired from not sleeping enough hours, no to mentioned my back and arms are sored from holding the baby to breastfeed and to go to sleep most through the night.

Oh my goodness, I couldn't agree more... My 2 month old daughter has been sleeping in our bed for the last 4 weeks and I feel human again.

For babies too old to be swaddled, try a sleep sack, a hammock bed, or a «human swaddle» — wrap your arms around him gently so he can't wiggle around so much.

I was given the book babywise and have since learned how stupid the whole western idea of solitary sleep is when you understand how human milk is produced and human milk for human bubs is obviously ideal although I am glad we have formula for situations in which it is impossible and feel for women who miss out on all the closeness of cosleeping / breastfeeding etc..

Humans have only been nursing their young to sleep for millions of years, not billions (we've only been around for about 4.5 million years).

The list of what you need for such a tiny human is never - ending, and preparing a comfortable and clean sleep environment for your baby is just one small part of your overall checklist.

Humans nursed their young to sleep for millions of years.

This is the biologically appropriate amount and frequency for newborn humans — and it matches perfectly with the newborn sleep cycle.

Co-sleeping doesn't mean that I no longer get any time alone, it just means that, for now, I'm sleeping with an extra human being next to me.

And all human babies (almost all mammals, actually) benefit from sleeping in the same room as a non-drugged, non-smoking mother for regulation of respiration, cardiovascular, and hormones, not to mention mom's milk supply (also hormone related) if she is a nursing mother.

For most of human history, our ancestors» biggest sleep problem was almost certainly the avoidance of predators.

We've slept with our babies for thousands of years to protect them and hold them warm, and this need of physical proximity at an early age is so deeply ingrained into us humans that no new guidelines should try to deny that.

My wife and I were shocked when we read what pediatric sleep researchers had to say about normal sleep for human infants and the idea that infants must «self - soothe.»

Babies who are fed a breastmilk substitute typically space out feedings or sleep longer between feedings than those fed human milk because non-human milks are difficult for babies to digest.

But perhaps more importantly, no human infant (meaning no present living human beings) would or could be alive today had our ancestral mothers not have slept next to their infants for physiological regulation, management, protection, and to breastfeed throughout the night.

Indeed, I argue that the cultural dismantling of the three basic components of normal human infant sleep i.e. sleep position (on the back for breastfeeding which was changed to prone sleep), feeding method (from breastfeeding to formula or cows milk, bottle feeding) and infant sleep location (from next to the mother within sensory range to nighttime separation, a separate room) fostered and promoted the SIDS epidemic which is was limited to the industrialized, western world.

The lighter sleep, that all of these maternal - induced arousals promote, gives rise to what we consider to be «safer sleep» for infants especially for the level of neurological immaturity through which all human infants must pass.

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

The adoption of the prone infant sleep position, bottle rather than breast feeding, and infants sleeping separate from their parents each proved to be independent risks for SIDS meaning... the dismantling of the human pattern of back sleep, with breastfeeding, with sleeping next to others caused the «SIDS» epidemic unique to the Western world and a loss of possibly as many as 600,000 babies.

Like human taste buds which reward us for eating what's overwhelmingly critical for survival i.e. fats and sugars, a consideration of human infant and parental biology and psychology reveal the existence of powerful physiological and social factors that promote maternal motivations to cosleep and explain parental needs to touch and sleep close to baby.

Contrary to what many pediatric sleep researchers claim, or at least, lead parents to believe, the consolidation of human infant sleep is not what is important biologically for an infant especially in the first six months of life.