And don't
get sleep scientists started on the accuracy of those sleep graphs; according to researchers, it's brain waves, not wrist movement, that indicate what stage of sleep you're in.
Not exact matches
But until someone invents one (note to
scientists: please make it a priority), we've
got some tried and tested ways to settle your baby to
sleep so everyone in the house can
get the rest they need.
As new blockbuster drugs for large, general populations become harder to find — and as scientific advances make new biological approaches possible — prospective drugs that target smaller populations are
getting more attention, says Dale Edgar, a research fellow and chief
scientist of a
sleep disorders research unit at Eli Lilly, based in Guildford, U.K.
Harvard
sleep scientist Steven Lockley says NASA simply doesn't take human factors as seriously as it should, adopting our culture's flippant «I'll
sleep when I'm dead» attitude about
getting rest.
Getting enough
sleep is an essential part of any athlete's training programme, but a study in the Journal of Sports Sciences reveals intensive bouts of exercise can make it hard to
get 40 winks.Suspecting that intense exercise can lead to
sleep disturbance,
scientists from Loughborough University studied the effects of two nine day periods of heavy training on 13 highly trained cyclists.
Although it might seem that the glowing lights from smartphones and other trappings of modern life reduce people's ability to
get a decent amount of shut - eye,
scientists now suggest that people do not
get any less
sleep today than they did in prehistoric times.
The
scientists found that the amount of
sleep these hunter - gatherers
got had less to do with the length of daylight hours than with temperature.
Swedish
scientists recently found that heart attacks dropped the Monday after a time change, possibly because people were
getting an extra hour of
sleep over the weekend.)
Although
scientists have just begun to identify the connections between insufficient
sleep and disease, most experts have concluded that
getting enough high - quality
sleep may be as important to health and well - being as nutrition and exercise.
As a result,
scientists estimate they need to
sleep more often overall in order to
get their sufficient amount of REM.