Sentences with phrase «sleep researchers at»

In a different study, sleep researchers at Loughborough University in England found that after a 30 - minute exposure to cell phone signals in talk mode, people took nearly twice as long to fall asleep as they did when the phone had been off or in standby mode.

The spindle - thalamus link made it «logical that the sleep spindle would play a role in regulating sensory input while we sleep,» says Jeffrey Ellenbogen, a sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

While previous studies have shown a link between sleep duration and obesity, the new work highlights the importance of sleep timing, says Kristen Knutson, a sleep researcher at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

«We find that contrary to much conventional wisdom, it is very likely that we do not sleep less than our distant ancestors,» said the study's senior author, Jerome Siegel, a sleep researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This sleep researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says that the circadian clock is very sensitive to light at night.

A sleep researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he told Science News that the Swiss team used good methods.

Not exact matches

«Naps are definitely a good way to help you feel more rested, but keep them to about 10 to 15 minutes, ideally,» says Henry Olders, a sleep researcher and assistant professor at McGill University.

Researchers at Appalachian State University found that morning exercise lowers your blood pressure, reduces stress and anxiety, and helps you sleep better at night.

The researchers behind the study that disrupted volunteers» sleep suggested there may be a nasty cycle at work in the relationship between bad sleep and increased Alzheimer's risk.

While skimping on sleep is associated with weight gain, researchers at Wake Forest found that those who sleep more than eight hours a night packed on more belly fat, the dangerous kind that's associated with heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.

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.

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.»

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.

Researchers found that when children started going to sleep at a more consistent time, their behavior improved as well.

«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).

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.

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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).

The researchers discovered that infants who routinely sleep with their mothers breast - feed twice as often and for three times longer than babies left in a separate room at night.

Contrary to what many pediatric sleep researchers claim, or at least, lead parents to believe, the consolidation of human infant sleep is not what is important biologically for an infant especially in the first six months of life.

Dr. James McKenna is a leading researcher in the field of bed - sharing and has quite a few studies quoted on the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame website: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/media.html The more important point here is that no professional should tell you what to do.

Perhaps they are nonsensical questions to researchers who, along with the public health community at large, have such a blind spot related to bedsharing that they refuse to acknowledge that there is ANY way to reduce SIDS risk in a baby who sleeps with their parents.

That was the goal of the new study, by researchers at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, who found that sleep position does not affect the severity of head flattening.

Researchers at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland found that sleep deprived women's skin ages prematurely, is less able to recover after sun exposure, and more likely to break out due to stress and exhaustion.

Researchers believe this abnormality, in the brain's control of head and neck movement, breathing, heartbeat and the body's responses to deprivation of oxygen supply, could be the reason why some babies sleeping on their front are more at risk of SIDS.

In 2008, researchers at Drexel University found symptoms can worsen in post-partum depression patients when their quality of sleep declines.

The incidence of bed - sharing is on the rise in the U.S., and while most parents say that their baby sleeps separately at night, when researchers ask more specific questions, it turns out that roughly half of moms and dads actually do sleep with their babies at least occasionally.

Researchers found in a recent study (Schieche et al. 2008) in the Journal of Zero to Three (Jan. 2009) that in a sample of 80 babies ages 6 - 18 months old whose parents completed the above method, 13 % of the babies had a relapse of sleep problems, 8 % did not respond at all, but 79 % of the babies had continued success with being able to sleep through the night and self soothe themselves upon wakening.

Sleep disorders have been found by various researchers to put stress on parent's emotional and physical resources, put parent - child relationships at risk, affect a child's well being, as well as strain a mother and father's relationship.

The researchers, who published their findings online this week in Biology Letters, concluded that the birds were resting half of their brains at a time in order to catch up on sleep while staying on guard.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

Erin Keebaugh, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in Associate Professor William Ja's Laboratory at TSRI, suspected that the systems responsible for caffeine's impact on fly (and maybe human) sleep patterns are more complex than a single caffeine and receptor interaction.

Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (James I Univeristy, UJI) have developed new compounds for the treatment of infectious tropical diseases, such as malaria, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers assessed self - reports of sleep timing, sleepiness, and well - being (depressive symptoms and mood) before the school made the schedule change, and evaluated the measures again at approximately one and nine months after the delay.

Babies who were sleeping in their own rooms at ages 4 or 9 months got more nighttime sleep than babies the same ages who roomed with parents, researchers reported online June 5 in Pediatrics.

Pregnant women who are diagnosed with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia appear to be at risk of delivering their babies before reaching full term, according to an analysis of California births by researchers at UC San Francisco.

The researchers found no differences in sleep duration between the groups of babies at age 12 months.

At age 21.5 (in 2005), the researchers tested the single male participants» testosterone levels when they woke and when they went to sleep.

Researchers at the University of York have shed new light on sleep's vital role in helping us make the most of our memory.

The study quite reasonably suggests there is a finite amount of sleep to be had, at least for the 50 Japanese 19 - month - olds tracked by researchers.

The second and third nights the researchers relentlessly bombarded each snoozing participant with recordings of common noises such as toilets flushing, phones ringing and people talking, starting each noise at a low volume and repeating it more and more loudly until the subject was aroused from sleep.

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.

When a kid gets concussed, the instinct of many parents, myself included, is to cocoon their child, limiting social interaction, activity and even sleep, a recent poll conducted by researchers at UCLA suggests.

But now researchers reporting in Current Biology on December 28 have found a way to capture detailed information on human sleep cycles over long periods of time while individuals slumber at home in their usual way.

More unexpected, researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison uncovered a link between sleep apnea and cancer mortality: Cancer deaths among patients with severe apnea were five times higher than among those without.

However, when the researchers compared players» performance before and after sleeping, only Doom - related dreaming was correlated with improvement at the game.

Researchers at the 12th International Neuroscience Winter Conference will explore, among other hot topics in neuroscience, the neurobiology of courtship, new gene therapy approaches in Parkinson's disease, the role of sleep in neuropsychiatric disorders and breakthroughs in brain repair.

Researchers at Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke - NUS) have found evidence that the less older adults sleep, the faster their brains age.