Sentences with phrase «researching human sleep»

The newly gained knowledge is an important step in researching human sleep.

Not exact matches

For instance, recent research on the sleep habits of hunter gatherer bands living much like our long - ago ancestors did found modern humans actually don't get much less sleep than our tribal forebears.

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.

Research has revealed that right up until the advent of electric light, humans normally experienced 2 distinct segments of sleep.

Unfortunately this implies that the pediatric sleep research community (in general) accepts uncritically the mistaken assumption that solitary, bottle - fed infants represent the «normal» and / or «optimal» human infant sleep and feeding arrangement, and the context from which measurements of «normal, infant sleep» can be derived.

Make the most of your sleep and your baby's sleep with these three tips that are based on human evolution and anthropological research.

And recent research on natural sleeping patterns for humans (before the advent of artificial lighting started interfering with natural body rhythms) has shown that waking at least once during the dark hours is the way our bodies are designed to work...... Fascinating research really.

Instead, research and studies have found that co-sleeping and bed - sharing give children the capacity to fully engage with others, develop problem solving skills that children who sleep alone may not possess, and that human development is too complex to link with one particular idea or notion, whether it's bed - sharing or sleeping alone.

Unlike other primates that «cling» to their mothers, «human infants are dependent upon their mothers to ensure that proximity is maintained,» says Professor Helen Ball of the Parent - Infant Sleep Lab of Durham University in her article Bed Sharing and Co-Sleeping: Research Overview.

Doctors employed by the CIA participated in research and experimentation on prisoners at detainment centers such as Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram air base that included waterboarding, stress positioning, and sleep deprivation, according to a June report from Physicians for Human Rights.

«But by engaging a diverse participant population and accumulating rich datasets, the CPMC research study is pursuing the type of insights that will help us learn more about sleep duration and, ultimately, improve human health.»

Dr Wijnen, who has just been awarded two new grants collectively worth around # 500,000 to support his research, says: «This project has the potential of discovering new aspects of the timing of sleep / wake rhythms in both animals and humans.»

Although the research was carried out in fruit flies, or Drosophila, the scientists say the sleep mechanism is likely to be relevant to humans.

(1) However, while previous research on humans and other animals has shown that certain types of learning, like conditioning, can occur during sleep, (2) this study reveals that we can also memorize new representations and objects (here auditory «objects») while dozing.

A study by a joint research team including professor Kazuyo Tsuzuki of Toyohashi University of Technology, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Asahi Kasei Homes revealed that airflow from an air conditioner (AC) stimulates the human body while sleeping and impacts on sleep conditions even if the mean airflow velocity is lower than an insensible level.

Chang: As a graduate student, I researched circadian rhythm disorders resulting from different human sleep patterns, particularly those of early and late sleepers.

Ongoing research in the lab includes examining the influence of chronic sleep restriction on human performance, the influence of space flight on sleep and circadian rhythms and the application of his research to night workers - including medical residents and police - through the work of the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety Group.

Dr. Czeisler's laboratory research is focused on understanding the neurobiology of the human circadian pacemaker and its interaction with the sleep homeostat, and on applying that knowledge to clinical medicine and occupational health.

«Stress, including the stress of racial discrimination, affects cortisol levels and sleep, which are important for cognition and learning,» said study senior author Emma Adam, a professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research.

Research Project Grant (R01) applications proposing to conduct mechanistic studies in humans and animal models on the relationships between alcohol abuse, circadian rhythms and sleep disorders.

A 2012 study by a related research team emphasized the connections between sleep loss and the disruption of human fat cell function in energy regulation.

While the research has been proven in mice, it's hard to accurately measure, in real time, the clearance of small proteins in human brains that may link poor sleep to the risk of dementia.

This research also confirmed that all subjects had elevated levels of food cravings, which suggests that an extreme sleep shortage may may affect human's food perception.

Research suggests that during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the body is able to restore organs, bones, and tissue; replenish immune cells; and circulate human growth hormone.

In fact, preliminary human research suggests that shift workers, who have notoriously abnormal sleep schedules, have lower sperm counts compared to men who do not perform shift work.

Weakened immune system: Research indicates that sleep deprivation adversely affects the white blood cell count in humans as well as the body's ability to fight infections.

Mary A. Carskadon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University and the director of sleep research at Brown - affiliated E. P. Bradley Hospital, cautions that changing school start times «can not be done successfully without also teaching students, parents, and teachers about the importance of sleep.

A recent research on human memory links sleep and memory in a powerful co-relationship.

From 1990 to 1991 while a graduate student, he worked under a Ministry of Education grant at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki conducting basic and applied research on the effects of sleep deprivation on human health and performance.

Research has proven that humans who are awakened during this sleep phase often report that they are dreaming.

Research conducted by Matthew Wilson and Kenway Louie of MIT proved that during sleep, dogs brains go through similar brain wave patterns as humans (see reference below).

According to many scientists and much research, like humans, dogs (and many other animals) also seem to experience dreams at times while they're sleeping.

As the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and having spent more than two decades doing sleep research, Walker says there is a strong connection between lack of sleep and disSleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and having spent more than two decades doing sleep research, Walker says there is a strong connection between lack of sleep and dissleep research, Walker says there is a strong connection between lack of sleep and dissleep and disease.

Mary A. Carskadon, PhD Director, Chronobiology and Sleep Research, Bradley Hospital Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University