Sentences with phrase «leading sleep researchers»

James B Maas, a Cornell psychologist and leading sleep researcher, observed that most teenagers are «walking zombies.»

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«This is one of the first pieces of evidence that social media use really can impact your sleep,» commented lead author Jessica C. Levenson, though the researchers acknowledged further study is definitely needed.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

The lead researcher, Dr. Matthew Walker... said the findings support the idea that sleep is a necessary process that clears the brain's short term memory storage so there is room to absorb new information.

Regarded by many of his peers as the world's leading sleep and dream researcher, he identifies the dream state as a distinct, vital «third state» of mental activity to be respected for its unique function.

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.

Dr. James McKenna is a leading researcher in the field of bed - sharing and has quite a few studies quoted on the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame website: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/media.html The more important point here is that no professional should tell you what to do.

Researchers have shown that ultrasounds of babies in week thirty - two have brain patterns during sleeping that are similar to those of adults, leading many to hypothesize that babies are actually dreaming while in your womb.

Children's eating and sleeping habits are the two most common concerns parents bring to their pediatricians, write researchers, led by Dr. Riva Tauman of Tel Aviv Medical Center.

«Although the effects of light are well studied in adults, virtually nothing is known about how evening light exposure affects the physiology, health and development of preschool - aged children,» said lead author Lameese Akacem, a CU Boulder instructor and researcher in the Sleep and Development Lab.

A group of researchers led by Ronald Chervin of the University of Michigan have discovered an apparent link between enlarged tonsils — which are known to have an impact on sleep quality — and attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

To investigate, researchers led by Roberto Pisoni, MD (Medical University of South Carolina) analyzed information on 56 patients with diabetes and CKD who had undergone screening for obstructive sleep apnea through the use of a questionnaire.

Liese Exelmans, a researcher at the Leuven School for Mass Communication Research and the study's lead author, said people might sleep an appropriate amount of time (seven to nine hours for adults), but the quality is not always good.

As expected, the researchers saw that memory cues led to an increase in sleep spindles.

«Researchers widely acknowledge that receiving inadequate sleep is a serious problem and can potentially contribute to a variety of health complications, such as a weakened immune system or an increased risk for obesity and diabetes,» says Dr. Laura Scheinfeldt, lead author on the paper and a research scientist at Coriell.

It's also possible, the researchers wrote, that a high work ethic among blacks — a strong desire to succeed against all odds — could lead to stress, disrupted sleep, and negative health effects.

«To sleep or not: Researchers explore complex genetic network behind sleep duration: Study could lead to better approaches for treating insomnia, other sleep disorders.»

Unbalanced signaling by two molecules that regulate breathing leads to sleep apnea in mice and rats, researchers report in the Jan. 23, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ageing researchers Athanasios Metaxakis, Luke Tain, and Sebastian Grönke, in the department of MPI Director Linda Partridge, discovered that a reduced activity in the IIS signalling pathway leads to improved sleep quality at night and higher activity levels at day.

In a paper published recently in the journal Family Relations, lead researcher James McKenna, director of the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab and Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, and his colleagues suggest that the origin of both colic and SIDS may be related to the gradual emergence of an infant's ability to voluntarily control the release of air through the vocal track, learned skills that are required for the development of speech.

In the same study, for those who were sleep deprived, «self - reported hunger and appetite ratings significantly increased by 24 percent and 23 percent, respectively,» noted the authors of the review paper, which was led by Julie Shlisky, a researcher at The New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at Saint Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center.

Published in the journal Neuroscience online Nov. 26, and led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, the new study found that giving the drug to newborn mice 15 minutes after «binge» alcohol consumption eliminated the hyperactivity and sleep deficits seen when rodents exposed to alcohol became adults.

The researchers also want to add to this current observational study to establish, through randomized controlled trials, that eating fish can lead to better sleep, better school performance and other real - life, practical outcomes.

Losing just one night of sleep led to an immediate increase in beta - amyloid, a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a small, new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.

«We had expected to see a handful of contradictions in the safe sleeping category, as previous researchers had shown most pictures of sleeping infants in these magazines depicted unsafe positions, but we were surprised at the sheer number and breadth of categories where we found offenses,» said lead author Michael B. Pitt, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital.

A new study led by researchers Jinshia Ly, Jennifer J. McGrath and Jean - Philippe Gouin from Concordia University's Centre for Clinical Research in Health and the PERFORM Centre shows that poor sleep might explain how stress impacts health in kids.

Jinshia Ly, lead author and graduate student, explains that, «sleep researchers distinguish sleep duration, or how long one spends sleeping, from sleep quality, or how well one sleeps.

They found that, contrary to their expectations, it was not the amount of sleep that mattered, it was timing, says Carol Maher, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of South Australia and lead researcher on the study.

The researchers, led by professor of biology Leslie Griffith, concluded that sNPF has an important regulatory function in sleep in addition to its previously known function coordinating behaviors such as eating and metabolism.

This lack of sleep not only produces groggy high - school students but also can lead to drug use, the researchers reported.

«Across specialties and across the country the rate of compliance has been extremely poor,» says the study's lead author Christopher Landrigan, a sleep and patient safety researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard.

When the researchers looked at the molecular details of the PER1 protein, they found that the mutated PER1 led to lower protein levels during the sleeping period, higher levels during the waking period, and a faster degradation of protein whenever it was produced by cells.

Some researchers say that sleeping in may lead to pupils performing better at school.

Several strains continued to sleep for several hours even after they turned off the neurons, stopping them from firing and suggesting that the researchers triggered sleep drive in these flies, which led to the persistent sleepiness.

Maryland, US (Scicasts)-- Losing just one night of sleep led to an immediate increase in beta - amyloid, a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a small, new study by researchers at the...

The findings imply that sleep problems may lead to fibromyalgia, but the researchers say the relationship isn't so clear - cut.

The researchers speculate that long nights of sleep may be linked to increased inflammation, which can eventually lead to cardiovascular problems.

«Sleep disturbances are more prevalent in stroke patients, even more than in the general population,» said lead researcher Dr. Dirk Hermann.

Twenty of those subjects that suffered from sleep deprivation, committed suicide, which led the researchers to draw a conclusion that those who had poor sleeping habits on a consistent basis were 1.5 times more likely to end their life.

«Cardiologists do not talk regularly about sleep issues with their patients,» says lead researcher Lars Erik Laugsand, MD, an internist in the public health department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim.

This technique could save the brains of some people who suffer «wake - up» strokes, where symptoms become apparent after they wake from a night's sleep, said lead researcher Dr. Gotz Thomalla, a neurologist with the University Medical Center in Hamburg, Germany.

The researchers indicate that certain lifestyle factors suppress melatonin production, which results in sleep disruption that can lead to weight gain.

In addition, researchers have correlated obstructive sleep apnea — a disorder in which breathing difficulties during sleep lead to frequent arousals — with the development of impaired glucose control similar to that which occurs in diabetes.

This relationship led researchers to publish an article in the journal Gastroenterology & Hepatology that examined the link between sleep and various gastrointestinal illnesses.

«Insomnia is quite common among older adults and it can lead to a range of health issues if left untreated,» said lead researcher Jack Losso, professor in the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences at Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge who has conducted previous studies on tart cherry juice and sleep.

Professor Paul Montgomery, lead researcher, University of Birmingham said: «We want people to be aware that sleep deprivation in adolescents is a real problem which affects their functioning, their wellbeing and even their academic performance.

Walnuts University of Texas researchers found that walnuts are a great source of melatonin and that eating them can lead to higher blood levels of this internal - clock controlling hormone, resulting in improved sleep.

«Families receiving this intervention reported significant and sustained improvements in their children's ADHD symptoms and sleep,» said lead researcher and Centre for Community Child Health Associate Professor Harriet Hiscock.