Carskadon is a past president of the Sleep Research Society and organized the Women
in Sleep Research interest group of the Sleep Research Society.
Carskadon received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Gettysburg College and her doctoral degree with distinction in neuro - and biobehavioral sciences from Stanford University, with a specialty
in sleep research.
Pillow is an advanced sleep tracker with an intuitive design that tracks your sleep quality and has an innovative sleep analysis algorithm, based on the latest scientific findings
in sleep research.
On Thursday's St. Louis on the Air, we discussed the latest
in sleep research and answered your questions about sleep with Paul Shaw, an associate professor of neuroscience with Washington University's School of Medicine.
«We observed that the more a child had these waves throughout the night, the better the child was at cognitive tasks, particularly the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,» explained Sophie Tessier, a doctoral student
in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the Hôpital Rivière - des - Prairies and first author of the paper.
According to the researchers, the findings represent a major breakthrough
in sleep research because, for the first time, it will now be possible to objectively capture the real - life sleep habits and sleep quality of large numbers of people.
Horne and his colleagues controlled a Nokia 6310e cell phone — another popular and basic phone — attached to the head of 10 healthy but sleep - deprived men
in their sleep research lab.
3 This appears to find confirmation
in sleep research which has found that newborn humans spend about eight to nine hours per day in REM sleep whereas adults spend only one to two hours per day in that state.
Not exact matches
While we await more
research isolating the nuances inherent
in the effects of
sleep and leadership, we already know that poor
sleep quality and quantity result
in self - control problems, which
in turn are associated with higher levels of abusive supervision and unethical behavior.
The
research had a simple setup: invite 57 volunteers with no history of serious insomnia into a
sleep lab and ask them to do one of two things before settling
in for the night.
People appear to function normally, says Hans Van Dongen, a professor
in the WSU
Sleep and Performance
Research Center who directed the study.
Research conducted at the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital
in Northport, N.Y., concluded that a short
sleep session can improve cognitive functioning and alertness, resulting
in a 30 percent decline
in attention failures from the baseline measure.
The incidence of many illnesses, including diabetes and high blood pressure, increases with lack of
sleep, and a growing amount of
research suggests that poor
sleep may be a key factor
in the rising rates of obesity.
Recent
research published
in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found the performance of workers with insomnia or
sleep problems lags their well - rested colleagues, and that costs companies between $ 2,500 and $ 3,156 annually per sleepy employee.
An April study of more than 3,300 people by the National
Research Center for the Working Environment discovered that people subjected to bullying
in the workplace were more likely to report
sleeping difficulties.
After five long years of innovation,
research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based
in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal
sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during
sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.
A study released
in November of 12 participants who spent two weeks
in a Boston
sleep -
research lab discovered that using light - emitting e-reader devices can have negative effects on
sleep quality.
In his
research, he learned about U.S. military software that measures
sleep data to estimate fatigue and predict cognitive acuity.
In 2016, a meta - analysis, a «study of studies,» on work - and -
sleep research looked at
research starting with the 1970s and continuing up to the present day.
Plus, new
research suggests that disrupting
sleep during certain parts of the night can quickly raise levels of Alzheimer's - related proteins
in the brain and spinal fluid.
A Soreon
Research report expects the market for wearables, which is still
in its infancy, to reach $ 41 billion by 2020, driven by growth
in devices aimed at combating diabetes,
sleep disorders, and cardiovascular disease.
Most of you readers probably assume that people like me belong to the scientific and the medical worlds — that we live, eat, breathe,
sleep and operate
in hospitals and
research labs, isolated from the business world.
Though the researcher said there needs to be more
research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy
sleep appears to play an important role
in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role
in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention.»
PsyBlog explains the
research on the subject: «
In the study, one group of participants were allowed to get a full nights»
sleep, while another had to stay up all night.
Timothy Roehrs and Thomas Roth at the
Sleep Disorders Research Center of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, have demonstrated that alertness significantly increases when eight - hour sleepers who claim to be well rested get an additional two hours of s
Sleep Disorders
Research Center of the Henry Ford Hospital
in Detroit, Michigan, have demonstrated that alertness significantly increases when eight - hour sleepers who claim to be well rested get an additional two hours of
sleepsleep.
, they're also useful
in helping you avoid burnout, since
research shows burnout is a signal that you can't take
in more information
in this part of your brain until you've had a chance to
sleep.
The
research release explains that «
sleep spindles,» a particular kind of brain activity that occurs
in sleep, may help us tag and then recall important information.
Not only are naps beneficial for consolidating memories and helping you remember new information, they're also useful
in helping you avoid burnout, since
research shows burnout is a signal that you can't take
in more information
in this part of your brain until you've had a chance to
sleep.
So as I am a fellow «owner» of a company instead of a owner of a share which fluctuates
in price, and I believe
in the company as I have done my
research I can
sleep well at night.
My quest for biblical womanhood led me to these stories late at night, long after Dan had gone to
sleep, and I conducted my nightly
research by his side
in bed, stacks of Bibles and commentaries and legal pads threatening to swallow him should he roll over.
In the 1990s the scientific study of
sleep and dreams catapulted into public awareness because of a federal initiative that funded brain
research.
According to most
research, more than 50 percent of people who say «I do» will not be
sleeping in the same bed eight years from now.
Current
research links
sleep deprivation with elevated hunger and unhealthy food choices, so I make sure to tuck myself
in for some sweet (sugar - free) dreams... and to prepare for another day filled with great food!
Cheri Mah, a researcher
in the Stanford
Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory, «showed that basketball players at the elite college level were able to improve their on - the - court performance by increasing their amount of total sleep time.&r
Sleep Disorders Clinic and
Research Laboratory, «showed that basketball players at the elite college level were able to improve their on - the - court performance by increasing their amount of total
sleep time.&r
sleep time.»
The latest
research indicates that your eight month old falling to
sleep on your lap regularly will result
in you and him having a stronger biological connection that is measurable
in terms of added neurons and synapses
in both your brains that foster bonding.
Their approach moves beyond old school ideas like «
sleep training» — it's grounded
in research and shaped by new thinking.
Mindell wonders, adding that understanding how some infants thrive on less
sleep is the next step
in research: «to figure out why that is, and what's the consequence.»
Her
research has included work
in parenting styles and children's competencies, parent education, and infant and toddler
sleep habits and their impact on family and children's development.
In an article on SciJourner.org, Dr. Danny Lewin (director of the Sleep Disorders Medicine Program in the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health) state
In an article on SciJourner.org, Dr. Danny Lewin (director of the
Sleep Disorders Medicine Program
in the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health) state
in the National Center on
Sleep Disorders
Research at the National Institutes of Health) states:
Research has proven this again and again, and has shed light on the damage it causes
in the form of stress,
sleep - deprivation and a variety of shortfalls
in personal development, notably resilience and coping skills.
Research has also shown that some factors such as being too tired at bedtime, not getting enough
sleep on a regular basis, not having a consistent
sleep routine, and going through a stressful situation
in our lives CAN contribute to having nightmares and night terrors.
There is NO
research about cortisol measurements
in sleep - trained infants, or whether this causes any damage.
Googling and
researching, talking to friends and been
in Baby
Sleep Facebook groups.
In hopes of eradicating this unthinkable tragedy and help desperate parents everywhere; he began his
research on infant
sleep and colicky babies.
Previous
research had also linked poor
sleep in children to negative outcomes
in mother's mental health.
As the science of
sleep gains more and more traction
in the
research communities, the non-scientists among us are also... Read More
Co -
Sleeping / Bedsharing: The
Research Speaks for Itself The practice of putting an infant
in his own room,
in his own crib, is a relatively new practice.
Where appropriate, I will refute mainstream parenting myths (e.g. that you must teach a baby to
sleep or they will never learn to
sleep) or demonstrate where some mainstream approaches could be dangerous (e.g. my recent post highlighting Macall Gordon's work comparing CIO recommendations
in infant
sleep books with actual
research on CIO).
In a soothing yet sassy voice, the authors present compelling
research on topics like birth, holding your baby, breastfeeding, infant
sleep, pottying babies (yes, really!)
These benefits are confirmed by the elegant
research done by James McKenna, Professor of Anthropology at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US and his colleagues, (McKenna, J., Mosko, S 1990) who invited 35 mother - baby pairs into a
sleep research laboratory, and monitored overnight their
sleep patterns as they
slept together or
in separate rooms.