Sentences with phrase «of sleep scientists»

Forward - thinking companies such as Zappos, Google, and Nike have heeded the research of sleep scientists, and now encourage team members to snooze on the job and refresh when they need it.

Not exact matches

Yet while scientists insist that sleep is one of the three pillars of well - being — alongside nutrition and exercise — our sleep literacy lags.

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.

Scientists note that «the use of light - emitting devices immediately before bedtime is a concern because of the extremely powerful effect that light has on the body's natural sleep / wake pattern and how that may play a role in perpetuating sleep deficiency.»

Hobson, recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sleep Research Society, examines dreaming through the lens of physiology.

«When people have slept less, it's a little like looking at the world through dark glasses,» according to Janice Kiecolt - Glaser, longtime relationship scientist and director of the Ohio State Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research.

Perri Klass MD, highlights the impact of daytime sleep for young children in her NYT article, «A Child's Nap Is More Complicated Than It Looks» — «Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place... Read More

Some scientists believe brain development occurs during REM sleep, mainly because of the brain activity.

With over 40 sleep scientists dedicated to a restful night's sleep, Tomorrow set out to design the first truly connected sleep system with the knowledge, research and engineering expertise of Serta Simmons Bedding.

Many scientists actually believe that sleeping near your baby and exhaling near them may help stimulate your baby's breathing actually combats the risk of SIDS.

«Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place shortly after morning awakening.

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.

We started by engaging our own scientists and external experts, including Dr. Jodi Mindell (Saint Joseph's University and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), an internationally known, leading pediatric sleep expert.

Scientists still don't know exactly why some babies die without explanation, but recent research points to the possibility of brain stem abnormalities that prevent some babies from being able to rouse from sleep and gasp for air when their blood oxygen levels are too low.

For instance, sleep scientists warn that the «cry it out» approach must be carefully monitored and should not be attempted on infants less than 6 months of age (France and Blampied 1999; Owens et al 1999).

Moreover, between these stages, they may spend a couple of minutes in «transitional sleep,» a rather restless state that looks like a mash - up of active and quiet sleep, and which scientists don't yet understand.

Scientists indicate that sleeping at lower temperature will help us to fall asleep faster and reduce the number of sleeping interruptions during the sleeping time which ensures that you stay comfortable for a long time.

Scientists have discovered that babies dream at this stage of pregnancy and that their dream sleep patterns are much the same as adults!

The relationship between sleep and ADHD is considered by scientists to be «complex and bidirectional,» meaning that it's possible the symptoms of ADHD (and the drugs that treat it, which are, after all, stimulants) may sometimes cause sleep deprivation rather than be caused by it.

When Time magazine senior editor Jeffrey Kluger contacted the authors of some of the studies cited by William Sears for an article he wrote in May 2012, the scientists said it was unfair that Sears had used their work as evidence against sleep training.

Change Your Life, writes in praise of the technique designed by the scientist and mom: «Polly Moore understands the intricacies of infant sleep and is empathetic to the roller - coaster of parenthood.»

But David Asante says the Alliance has testimony of an eye witness who is also a scientist claiming the police used nitrous oxide or sleeping gas on the protesters.

A poor night's sleep is enough to put anyone in a bad mood, and although scientists have long suspected a link between mood and sleep, the molecular basis of this connection remained a mystery.

The study reinforced the idea that the processes of sleep and eating need to be studied together, explained the scientists, especially as a growing number of researchers investigate the relationship between sleep and metabolic disorders.

Clifford B. Saper, professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Harvard Medical School and chair of the Department of Neurology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said that «99 percent of scientists agree — a loss of sleep is deleterious.»

A new study from scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) offers important insights into possible links between sleep and hunger — and the benefits of studying the two in tandem.

1991: Adrian Morrison — Dr. Morrison, a veterinarian whose scientific research focuses on the neural mechanisms associated with sleep, defended the right of scientists to use animals in their research and promoted responsible research practices among those scientists.

SLEEP AND SPEECH THIEF The use of tablets and other handheld digital devices are associated with speech delays and less night sleep in young children, links that scientists, doctors and parents are all eager to expSLEEP AND SPEECH THIEF The use of tablets and other handheld digital devices are associated with speech delays and less night sleep in young children, links that scientists, doctors and parents are all eager to expsleep in young children, links that scientists, doctors and parents are all eager to explore.

Johnson is a research scientist studying sleep, memory, and learning, and is the education manager for internships at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, based at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Non-REM sleep accounts for an unexpectedly small share of human sleep, although it may also aid memory (SN: 7/12/14, p. 8), the scientists contend.

Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have discovered a link between sleep loss and cell injury.

Many studies have linked more sleep to better memory, but new research in fruit flies demonstrates that extra sleep helps the brain overcome catastrophic neurological defects that otherwise would block memory formation, report scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Wireless sensors could help scientists keep track of sleep patterns at home, instead of their having to rely on lab - based studies or self - reporting.

As part of the new study, the scientists restored memory in each group of flies by using one of three techniques to increase sleep.

But on the night of July 3, scientists sacrificed sleep to line up outside the main auditorium at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva.

By studying a strain of mice bred to overexpress α - synuclein via the Thy - 1 promoter, scientists have found these mice develop many of the age - related progressive motor symptoms of PD and demonstrate changes in sleep and anxiety.

«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.

A sleep deficiency of even a small degree can disrupt our lives in a number of ways — from a setback in daily routine to bringing about or exacerbating existing chronic diseases,» said Andrew N. Carr, Ph.D., Clinical Scientist and study co-author, Procter & Gamble.

Scientists have identified differences in a group of genes they say might help explain why some people need a lot more sleep — and others less — than most.

In the study, the scientists examined the human serotonin receptor, which plays a role in learning, mood and sleep and is the target of drugs that combat obesity, depression and migraines.

Second, there is the supposition that copying your brain's connectome — the diagram of its neural connections — uploading it into a computer (as some scientists suggest) or resurrecting your physical self in an afterlife (as many religions envision) will result in you waking up as if from a long sleep either in a lab or in heaven.

The scientists determined that lack of sleep during nonmigration seasons does negatively affect the birds, however.

Newly hatched fruit flies deprived of sleep end up with brain and behavior problems later in life, scientists report in the April 18 Science.

Scientists have known for years that sleep disorders and disruption raise blood serum levels of interleukin 6, an inflammatory immune compound.

When the scientists looked for the human version of the newly identified fly marker for sleep deprivation, they found ITGA5 and realized it hadn't been among the human immune genes they screened at the start of the study.

In a new study publishing April 1 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, Scientists at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biology of Ageing in Cologne have investigated the mechanisms by which ageing impairs sleep in the fruit fly.

Sleep scientists have found that when specific light receptors in our eyes are exposed to a particular wavelength of blue light, we feel more alert because the brain suppresses melatonin, a key hormone in regulating sSleep scientists have found that when specific light receptors in our eyes are exposed to a particular wavelength of blue light, we feel more alert because the brain suppresses melatonin, a key hormone in regulating sleepsleep.

In the 1960s, scientists sought an elusive bloodborne factor, transfusing the blood of hibernating bears into monkeys in the hope of sending them into an instant sleep.

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.

Scientists in Japan have designed new molecules that modify the circadian rhythm, opening the way to the possibility of managing jet lag and improving treatments for sleep disorders.