Sentences with phrase «long sleep duration»

Among the 790 couples the researchers followed, «we found both short and long sleep duration — less than 6 hours or 9 or more per night — were associated with a reduced probability of pregnancy,» Wise said.

The study is the first to analyse the association between sleep duration and serum micronutrient concentrations in a large sample, and it found a link between high serum copper concentration and long sleep duration.

Long sleep duration was more common among heavy drinkers, but only in black men and white women.

Other life - threatening medical conditions may cause people to sleep longer or shorter than average, resulting in a correlation between long sleep duration and mortality.

By swaddling the baby, these movements are limited and help babies maintain longer sleep duration without any spontaneous awakenings.

According to a 2014 study from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, office workers with more light exposure at the office enjoyed many benefits, including longer sleep durations, better sleep quality, and better quality of life compared to workers who did not have much exposure to natural light at work.

Often this magical age of 3 months comes and goes and longer sleep durations are more the stuff of dreams than reality.

«We were surprised that the heritability of depressive symptoms in twins with very short sleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins sleeping normal amounts of time,» said principal investigator Dr. Nathaniel Watson, associate professor of neurology and co-director of the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle, Wash. «Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Women reported longer sleep durations than men in all countries except Russia and Mexico.

Both short and excessively long sleep durations seem to activate genes related to symptoms of depression.

For example, one recent 2015 study linked sleep habits to body weight and diet, suggesting that longer sleep duration might even moderate certain genetic predispositions to obesity by altering dietary habits.

Short and long sleep durations are also associated with obesity which is a known risk factor for colorectal cancer.

However, higher levels of mindfulness were associated with longer sleep duration, better sleep efficiency, and better subjective sleep quality only through fewer depressive symptoms and higher levels of mindfulness were associated with shorter sleep latency only through anxiety.

Not exact matches

The initial allures of co-sleeping include making nighttime feeding easier, a longer duration of sleep for parent and baby and eliminating some of the resistance associated with bedtime.

For mothers who enjoy sharing sweet dreams with your baby, the research is affirming — touch and proximity are essential elements of bonding; the hormonal status that enhances bonding is at its most effective during night - time breastfeeding; continued breastfeeding maintains the release of hormones essential for mother - infant bonding, and breastfeeding is more likely to be successful for a longer duration when mothers and infants share sleep.

Thus, he is able to sleep for longer durations at night, i.e. 8 hours of sleep during night.

CIO can be done with love and respect, can actually REDUCE crying durations in infants from all day long from fatigue to a few short minutes before sleeping, and can actually be a way that caring parents can be shown to be responding to their child who needs to sleep and will not do so properly while being rocked, fed, or constantly handled.

Exclusively breast - fed infants had a significantly lower incidence of colic attacks (p = 0.04), lower severity of irritability attacks (p = 0.03), and a trend for longer nocturnal sleep duration (p = 0.06).

As a consequence of this research the past two decades (1989 - 2009) have witnessed a) a renewed recognition of the importance of contact and touch for babies in the context of improving breastfeeding initiation and duration [17]; b) an increased awareness of the role that close parental proximity and monitoring of babies plays in reducing SIDS and neglect [18][19]; and c) the impact of early mother - infant separation on long - term mental health [20]-- all leading to a resurgence of interest in parent - infant contact, particularly sleep contact.

In the study that is now being published in the scientific journal SLEEP, sleep researchers Jonathan Cedernaes and Christian Benedict, sought to investigate the role of nocturnal sleep duration for this memory transfer, and how long - term memories formed by sleep remain accessible after acute cognitive stSLEEP, sleep researchers Jonathan Cedernaes and Christian Benedict, sought to investigate the role of nocturnal sleep duration for this memory transfer, and how long - term memories formed by sleep remain accessible after acute cognitive stsleep researchers Jonathan Cedernaes and Christian Benedict, sought to investigate the role of nocturnal sleep duration for this memory transfer, and how long - term memories formed by sleep remain accessible after acute cognitive stsleep duration for this memory transfer, and how long - term memories formed by sleep remain accessible after acute cognitive stsleep remain accessible after acute cognitive stress.

For example, DBS of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is effective for alleviating sleep problems and fatigue associated with PD, producing noticeable long - term improvements in sleep efficiency and the quality and duration of continuous sleep.

«Until now, whether sleep at such extreme long or short duration could exist in natural populations was unknown.»

«Optimal sleep duration should be promoted, as very long and very short sleep indicate health problems and subsequent sickness absence,» said principal investigator Tea Lallukka, PhD, specialized researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

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.

The paper, «Shorter sleep duration and longer sleep onset latency are related to difficulty disengaging attention from negative emotional images in individuals with elevated transdiagnostic repetitive negative thinking» was published in ScienceDirect.

Graph showing sleep duration (in minutes) of wild fruit flies — long sleepers, normal sleepers, and short sleepers — artificially bred across 13 generations.

But in this study, «after adjusting for age, sex, race, education, smoking, and apnea risk,» the authors note, «longer measured sleep duration was associated with reduced calcification incidence.»

Women with longer average sleep duration said they had better genital arousal than women with shorter sleep time.

This research only established a correlation between the two (and not a cause - and - effect), so the study authors say they can't be sure whether inflammation triggers long and short sleep duration or whether sleep duration triggers inflammation.

In one study from Northwestern University, researchers explored the relationship between sleep and exercise, finding that the longer it takes to fall asleep and the shorter total sleep duration affects the next day's exercise performance.

Upon waking from a long duration of sleep our bodies will be in a heightened state of insulin sensitivity, regardless of the time of day.

The controlled CTRC study limited the duration of sleep loss and thus it is possible that given a longer time course of overeating, participants would have responded to changes in satiety and hunger hormones (35).

Circadian melatonin phase and phase relationships to scheduled sleep and wake times were similar for BL and 9 - h conditions, whereas circadian melatonin onset phase significantly delayed by ∼ 1.5 h and the duration between wake time and circadian melatonin offset phase was significantly longer in the 5 - h condition (Fig. 1).

For instance, the consumption of sugar - sweetened beverages, sweets, and processed foods may make it harder to do so, whereas the consumption of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables might make it easier.4 - 10 Physical activity should also influence long - term weight gain, but evidence to support this expectation has been surprisingly inconsistent.11 - 14 In addition, the duration of television viewing and of sleep may influence energy consumption, energy expenditure, or both.15 - 19 Different lifestyle behaviors have often been evaluated separately, thus limiting relative comparisons or the quantification of combined effects.

«Inactivity, sleep disturbance, psychiatric comorbidity, medication, and ongoing stress experienced by people with CFS will affect HPA axis function, and the findings that HPA axis dysregulation is more prominent in patients with a longer duration of illness suggest that the endocrine changes may be secondary.»

If you keep increasing the intensity and duration of play just prior to bedtime she will keep sleeping longer.

In terms of studies regarding behavioral problems, one extensive meta - analysis of the relationship between sleep deprivation and cognition in school - aged children found a significant increase in behavioral problems in children with shorter sleep duration.25) Additionally, sleep deprivation resulted in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.32)

For example, Moreau et al. (2014) found that youth with comorbid ADHD and anxiety had the longest sleep onset delay, shortest sleep duration, and greatest daytime sleepiness in comparison to typically developing youth or youth with ADHD alone.