Sentences with phrase «of sleep researchers»

In 2011, a group of sleep researchers did a study at Stanford and discovered that varsity athletes there significantly increased their performance (regardless of sport) by sleeping 10 hours a day.

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In a German study, researchers gave two groups of subjects, one well - rested and one sleep - deprived, a math test.

Indeed, researchers have found that getting five or fewer hours of sleep five nights in a row has an impact on memory, attention and speed of thinking equivalent to being legally drunk.

Study researchers suspect that exhausted people's brains may be forced to «go offline» and take a period of local sleep in shifts to continue to function throughout the day, so a good night's slumber may be the key to limiting these episodes.

Researchers compare this strange localized sleep to that of dolphins, who are able to rest underwater while some part of their brain stays active enough to remind them to surface for air every so often.

Ultimately the researchers found that the people who slept six hours a night or less were four times more likely to contract a cold compared to those who got seven hours of sleep or more.

Researchers now have the data to prove that there's a far more complex system of sleep that happens in some areas of the brain while people appear to be awake and performing tasks.

«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.

Lichstein uncovered a huge group of people who complained bitterly of insomnia, but yet, when measured by sleep researchers, seemed to sleep pretty well.

As sleep researcher Matthew Walker explains in his book Why We Sleep, losing just an hour of sleep stresses the cardiovascular system, which can tip some folks with heart issues over the sleep researcher Matthew Walker explains in his book Why We Sleep, losing just an hour of sleep stresses the cardiovascular system, which can tip some folks with heart issues over the Sleep, losing just an hour of sleep stresses the cardiovascular system, which can tip some folks with heart issues over the sleep stresses the cardiovascular system, which can tip some folks with heart issues over the edge.

Researchers found that reading on a tablet decreased feelings of sleepiness, shortened REM sleep and suppressed the production of melatonin in participants before bedtime.

And if you're wondering how much sleep is enough, here's a rough guide: One of the most acclaimed sleep researchers, Daniel Kripke, found in a recent study that «people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, live the longest, are happier, and most productive.»

After the night with disrupted sleep, the researchers found people had higher levels of beta - amyloid proteins, the proteins that clump together and form the plaque found in Alzheimer's - afflicted brains, in the volunteers» spinal fluid.

According to University of North Carolina researchers, sleep deprived people are more susceptible to social influences, like a boss who wants you to step over ethical lines.

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.»

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

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.

We've reached this point through the help of hundreds of test sleepers, researchers and sleep maniacs, but we also realize that we still have a long way to go in our quest to help 100.000 people achieve a good night's rest.

Our team consists of engineers, sleep enthusiasts, researchers, marketing professionals, and experienced entrepreneurs that are passionate about sleep and technology.

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.

He quoted National Institutes of Health researcher David Larson, who says that couples who don't sleep together before marriage and who are faithful during marriage «are more satisfied with their current sex life and also with their marriages compared to those who were involved sexually before marriage.»

Alcohol interferes with body's ability to regulate sleep Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have found that drinking alcohol to fall asleep interferes with sleep homeostasis, the body's sleep - regulating mechanism...

Researchers have found that Montmorency tart cherries may help reduce insomnia and improve the quality and duration of sleep.

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.&rSleep 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.&rsleep time.»

Science briefs: Helpful findings for parents of teens - Family conflict; Sleep researchers advocate later school start times; The future of adolescence.

Australian researchers, who published their findings in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, found that of 225 six - year - olds, those who participated in sleep training when they were babies were no different in terms of emotional health from those who did not.

«The best thing parents can do is put a baby to bed early enough to avoid overtiredness,» said Jodi Mindell, a therapist and researcher at the Center for Sleep Medicine in Philadelphia and author of «Sleeping Through the Night» (HarperPerennial, $ 12).

of nearly one thousand new mothers, researchers found «a strong association between [infant sleep problems and depression symptoms].»

In a 1964 study, researchers found that there was little change in the number of hours spent sleeping over a 24 - hour period during infants» first 16 weeks of life.

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado recently performed a meta - study where they looked at all of the available research about screen time and sleep.

, researchers found that there was little change in the number of hours spent sleeping over a 24 - hour period during infants» first 16 weeks of life.

Sleep Training Study Findings Not Final Word API and other researchers encourage parents to reject the pervasive notion that parental sleep can only happen, or best happens, when we purposely and repeatedly ignore and dismiss the distress calls of our babies and children at nSleep Training Study Findings Not Final Word API and other researchers encourage parents to reject the pervasive notion that parental sleep can only happen, or best happens, when we purposely and repeatedly ignore and dismiss the distress calls of our babies and children at nsleep can only happen, or best happens, when we purposely and repeatedly ignore and dismiss the distress calls of our babies and children at night.

These observations are consistent with current research if we assume the researchers were observing babies with a fairly typical nursing pattern, where baby has a longer sleep period at night and gradually decreases the amount of time between nursing as the day progresses.

At 6 months of age, only 22 % of babies studied who slept on their backs were independently sitting (as compared to the 50 % expected by researchers).

According to a prevailing theory among Western sleep researchers, kids often learn to associate falling asleep with certain forms of stimulation — like parental soothing or a particular sleep environment.

Many researchers still suspect that whether light sleep is vital for the normal development of the brain in all young mammals and infants.

According to CNN, researchers in Australia worked with 43 sets of parents who had babies between 6 and 16 months of age who were having trouble sleeping.

Researchers also found that the graduated extinction babies also slept through the night more soundly than any of the rest of the babies involved in the study.

James McKenna, PhD., probably the foremost researcher on the topic of mother - infant cosleeping, has written Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Co-Sleeping.

Although the kids in the Australian study were selected from the general population (as opposed to a psychiatric practice or sleep clinic), researchers discovered that about 10 % of children complaining of nighttime fears fit the criteria for an anxiety disorder.

But ever the researcher, I set out to share not only what I used to get my two to sleep through the night, but some of the advice from experts I hope will be of some use.

Although putting a baby to sleep on their back did decrease SIDS - related deaths, the American Academy of Pediatrics noted that researchers found that suffocation and entrapment deaths increased.

When Mindell and her fellow researchers examined data on babies in Asia who slept alone, the quality and duration of their sleep were just as low as babies who co-slept with parents.

Researchers have reported that British children (aged 3 - 8) who slept in their parents» rooms showed lower daily levels of the stress hormone cortisol (Waynforth 2007).

In one study, researchers found that electricity had a major impact on the timing of sleep among groups of foragers indigenous to the Chaco region of Argentina.

In one study comparing two groups of preterm infants, researchers found that children who'd received skin - to - skin contact in the first weeks postpartum had developed, by age 10, more healthy stress response systems, improved sleep patterns, and better cognitive control (Feldman et al 2014).

Moreover, I believe that the current models promoted by pediatric sleep researchers that ignore feeding method and the importance of breastfeeding and breastmilk - delivery and the nutrition it provides are fundamentally flawed having emerged from recent cultural ideologies and not from studies of the biology of infancy or parenting.

In an analysis of SIDS deaths in Chicago, researchers controlled for various SIDS risk factors, including maternal smoking, soft sleep surface, pillow use, prone sleep position, and pacifier use.

As an added note, I am pleased to acknowledge the statement of appreciation of my SIDS and infant sleep research and advocacy for good sciecne, as expressed below by Dr. Brad Gessner, a well respected SIDS researcher from the state of Alaska.

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.