Sentences with phrase «sleep research study»

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People appear to function normally, says Hans Van Dongen, a professor in the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center who directed the study.

The BPS Research Digest explores another study that proves sleep affects our sensitivity to negative emotions.

An April study of more than 3,300 people by the National Research Center for the Working Environment discovered that people subjected to bullying in the workplace were more likely to report sleeping difficulties.

A study released in November of 12 participants who spent two weeks in a Boston sleep - research lab discovered that using light - emitting e-reader devices can have negative effects on sleep quality.

In 2016, a meta - analysis, a «study of studies,» on work - and - sleep research looked at research starting with the 1970s and continuing up to the present day.

PsyBlog explains the research on the subject: «In the study, one group of participants were allowed to get a full nights» sleep, while another had to stay up all night.

In the 1990s the scientific study of sleep and dreams catapulted into public awareness because of a federal initiative that funded brain research.

While further research is needed, this study suggests that tackling the problem sooner (rather than later) may safeguard against major sleep disorders and major behavioral disorders.

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.

Sometimes we get so focused on the latest study or research that tells us that the average child needs «x» amount of sleep for optimal brain development, or how many naps the average child needs, or what time the average child should go to bed or wake up that we forget we aren't growing an «average» child.

Some are based on years and years of scientific research and studies on sleep, some are based on parent's personal experiences, some are proponents of letting your baby cry - it - out and some don't believe in cry - it - out at all.

According to Tiffany Field of the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute, a center devoted to studying the effects of touch on health, children who receive massage «gain more weight, score higher in development, are less irritable and go to sleep more easily.»

One study by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) found that, although parents may claim that sleep aids work well for their infants, the research actually points to the fact that babies tend to use a lot of different objects for falling asleep, instead of just one favorite object.

According to a research study, «subjects fall asleep faster, sleep more deeply, have fewer awakenings and easily maintain sleep until a wakeup call.»

I was a research subject in the Harvard Work Hours study and I've followed the medical research on sleep deprivation for many years, trying to figure out how best to manage my circadian rhythms and clear my brain of what seemed like constant fog.

Research (reported here or read the study abstract here) shows that babies release cortisol (a stress hormone) in large amounts when they are left to cry during sleep training.

Despite decades of research on sleep training, most studies have focused on outcomes related to sleep and daytime behavior, but few have examined babies» stress responses to this change.

Studies done at the Touch Research Institutes at the University of Miami School of Medicine found that newborns who had a bedtime massage fell asleep faster and slept more soundly than those who didn't have one.

Most sleep training research studies whether an intervention is effective at shutting down the baby so parents get more sleep.

At the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Neurology his research team pioneered the first studies of the physiology and behavior of mothers and infant sleeping together and apart, using physiological and behavioral recording devices.

Recent studies show poor sleeping habits cause both brain damage and brain shrinkage, and may even accelerate onset of Alzheimer's disease.1 Previous research published in the journal Science2 revealed that your brain removes toxic waste during sleep through what has been dubbed «the glymphatic system.»

It is also worthy of note that research (including the New Zealand and Australia studies cited by GFI) has shown one particular practice reduces Sudden Infant Death Syndrome by 30 - 50 %: placing a baby to sleep on his or her back, rather than tummy.

Being certified through the Family Sleep Institute gave me the chance to not only read and do more research about sleep, but it also gave me access to many case studies and discussions that I would have neverSleep Institute gave me the chance to not only read and do more research about sleep, but it also gave me access to many case studies and discussions that I would have neversleep, but it also gave me access to many case studies and discussions that I would have never had.

Building off of previous research, the results of this studying are showing that wool sleeping apparel and bedding increases total sleep time, promotes sleep onset and improves sleep efficiency.

West Virginia University Professor of psychology and pediatrics, Hawley Montgomery Downs, studies the effect of sleep disruption on first - time mothers, and says research has shown that as sleep debt racks up, postpartum women can become as cognitively impaired as an intoxicated person.

My choice to co-sleep wasn't based on research studies, it was simply «best practice» for our family — or, where we all got the most sleep.

For alcohol, the exact risk is still ill - defined, and no studies have been carried out to correlate the dose, although some research suggests it can harm the infant's motor development, as well as causing changes to their sleep patterns, reduce the amount they eat, and increase the risk of hypoglycaemia.

Professor McKenna has extensively studied mothers and babies both co-sleeping and sleeping separately and his research demonstrates what co-sleeping mothers will attest to: when mothers and babies sleep together, they tend to get into the same sleep cycle.

A recent study published in Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development helps in this regard, because it shows that when babies learn to crawl, they have a harder time sleeping during the night.

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.

Let's say the blogosphere is abuzz about a research study that shows that sleep - training methods like cry - it - out have no long - term effects on children or that physically punitive discipline tactics like spanking result in children who are better behaved or that birthing without drug pain relief is dangerous.

A fair number of research studies have found that sleep deprivation (usually defined as less than five hours of sleep a night) can affect hunger levels and, in some instances, even food choices.

An observational study was conducted at the Centre for Sleep Research of the University of South Australia.

Outside of this one study, I have yet to find any research suggesting bedsharing is an issue pertaining to SIDS in Japan, and in fact, one study found the opposite — that sleeping alone was a significant risk factor [18].

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

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.

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.

To find out if this therapy is effective among pregnant women with insomnia, and ultimately whether it may improve birth outcomes, Felder and colleagues are recruiting participants for the UCSF Research on Expecting Moms and Sleep Therapy (REST) Study.

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

In the second study, James Horne and colleagues at the Loughborough University Sleep Research Centre in England devised an experiment to test this question.

«We know from our sleep loss studies that when you're sleep deprived, it negatively affects weight and metabolism in part due to late - night eating, but now these early findings, which control for sleep, give a more comprehensive picture of the benefits of eating earlier in the day,» said Namni Goel, PhD, a research associate professor of psychology in Psychiatry in the division of Sleep and Chronobiology, and lead author of the ongoing ssleep loss studies that when you're sleep deprived, it negatively affects weight and metabolism in part due to late - night eating, but now these early findings, which control for sleep, give a more comprehensive picture of the benefits of eating earlier in the day,» said Namni Goel, PhD, a research associate professor of psychology in Psychiatry in the division of Sleep and Chronobiology, and lead author of the ongoing ssleep deprived, it negatively affects weight and metabolism in part due to late - night eating, but now these early findings, which control for sleep, give a more comprehensive picture of the benefits of eating earlier in the day,» said Namni Goel, PhD, a research associate professor of psychology in Psychiatry in the division of Sleep and Chronobiology, and lead author of the ongoing ssleep, give a more comprehensive picture of the benefits of eating earlier in the day,» said Namni Goel, PhD, a research associate professor of psychology in Psychiatry in the division of Sleep and Chronobiology, and lead author of the ongoing sSleep and Chronobiology, and lead author of the ongoing study.

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.

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.

Nath is studying sleep in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, but whenever he presented his work at research conferences, other scientists scoffed at the idea that such a simple animal could sleep.

Co-Senior author, Dr Florence Raynaud, a group leader at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: «The study made accurate measurements of a large number of metabolites as they varied by time of day and under different sleep patterns.

The RAND team is currently collecting long - term research data to study whether sleep problems predict or lead to the onset of alcohol and / or marijuana use in teens.

The study was presented today at SLEEP 2016, a joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, from June 11 — 15, 2016 in DeSLEEP 2016, a joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, from June 11 — 15, 2016 in DeSleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, from June 11 — 15, 2016 in DeSleep Research Society, from June 11 — 15, 2016 in Denver.

Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., director of the Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.&rSleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.&rsleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.&rsleep seems to be a luxury.»

While previous research has indicated that sleep disruption and psychiatric disorders often occur together, this latest study is the first to causally demonstrate that sleep loss triggers excessive anticipatory brain activity associated with anxiety, researchers said.