Sentences with phrase «sleep researchers did»

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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While the study does associate smartphones and tablets with potential sleep problems, researchers don't yet think it's necessary to ban them outright.

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.

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.»

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).

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.

For parents in the control group, researchers didn't collect data on what techniques parents used to get their babies to sleep.

Likewise, for parents assigned to use the alternative sleep strategy, researchers didn't collect data on sleep location for babies.

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.

Some researchers link the lower risk to the fact that breast - fed infants do not sleep as deeply as bottle - fed infants.

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.

Don't miss these resources from the premier infant sleep researcher.

Not only did researchers find that the cry - it - out method was effective as a way to help babies sleep longer, but that in fact, it was not harmful to babies.

Researchers in Australia did multiple studies about sleep training children over six months, and found that graduated extinction (or «Ferberizing») kept kids within normal cortisol ranges.

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.

Kids who don't get enough sleep are more likely to be obese later on, researchers report.

The conclusion that the researchers drew from this study was that sleeping with an infant in an adult bed is dangerous and should never be done.

What they don't tell you is that baby sleep researchers are forced to base their estimates of average sleep requirements on «best guesses» and that baby sleep norms vary greatly from culture to culture, study to study.

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.

In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers found that although teenage mothers know the recommendations in regards to safe sleeping practices, many deliberately do not follow those recommendations.

If the app prescribes bright outdoor light when you'd rather sleep in, a therapeutic sunlamp in your hotel room might do the trick, the researchers say.

To separate the effects of poor sleep from other factors that also contribute to a risk of preterm birth, the researchers used a case - control design: 2,265 women with a sleep disorder diagnosis during pregnancy were matched to controls who did not have such a diagnosis, but had identical maternal risk factors for preterm birth, such as a previous preterm birth, smoking during pregnancy, or hypertension.

To test sleep, researchers don't let sleeping jellyfish lie.

Sound sleep in young and middle - aged people helps memory and learning, but as they hit their seventh, eighth and ninth decades — and generally don't sleep as much or as well — sleep is not linked so much to memory, a Baylor University researcher says.

Amidst our national sleep crisis, researchers are urgently trying to understand why we sleep and what goes wrong when we don't.

The researchers believe participants who slept were more likely to use an «absolute strategy,» in which they compare each person in the lineup to their memory of the suspect, while participants who didn't sleep were more likely to use a «relative strategy,» in which they compare the people in the lineup to each other to determine who most resembles the perpetrator relative to the others.

On the first night, the volunteers did not play any video games, but researchers woke them during REM sleep — the stage of sleep most associated with dreaming — and asked them to recall their dreams.

The researchers identified genes in the fruit fly that were equivalent to the human genes, but their activity didn't increase when flies lost sleep.

University of Queensland researcher, Associate Professor Bruno van Swinderen, said his team had overturned previous understanding of what general anaesthetics do to the brain, finding the drugs did much more than induce sleep.

Researchers did not begin amassing concrete evidence that blue LEDs can disrupt sleep until about 15 years ago, but they have had a good idea of the probable mechanism for quite some time.

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.

«Their results do suggest that the lunar cycle can influence human sleep,» says Marie Dumont, a researcher at the University of Montreal in Canada, who was not involved in the work.

What's more, the sleep they did get was worse and they were more tired during the day, the researchers reported in the December JAMA Pediatrics.

And don't get sleep scientists started on the accuracy of those sleep graphs; according to researchers, it's brain waves, not wrist movement, that indicate what stage of sleep you're in.

People with mild TBI were just as likely to have sleep problems as people with severe TBI, and the researchers did not find any other health problems that could have contributed to the sleep problems.

After adjusting for lifestyle factors, age and other chronic conditions, researchers found that men who reported difficulty initiating sleep and non-restorative sleep had a 55 percent and 32 percent increased risk of CVD - related mortality over the six year follow up, respectively, when compared to men who did not report these insomnia - related symptoms.

Now, a study published in Science by researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (McGill University) and the University of Bern provides evidence that REM sleep does, indeed, play this role — at least in mice.

As college students, they tended to be so sleep - deprived that, for most, «it didn't matter how much caffeine they had» — they slept well whenever they finally hit the sack, said study researcher Jamie Zeitzer, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.

Sleep takes up a third of our lives, yet researchers don't fully understand why people snooze.

«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.

«The study doesn't tell us how a good night's sleep might keep amyloid levels at bay, while the researchers suggest that sleep helps clear the protein from the brain, other potential explanations also need to be explored.

Unfortunately, researchers have also found that staying up late doesn't burn extra calories, which means that a lack of sleep can greatly increase weight gain in the long term.

What researchers at the University of Surrey did was, they analyzed blood samples of 26 people that had 9 - 10 hours of sleep each night for a week.

Interestingly, sleeping pills don't provide the deep sleep that's needed to counteract this decline, so researchers are now questioning why older adults, who typically spend less time in deep sleep than younger ones, simply aren't getting the rest they need.

«Cardiologists do not talk regularly about sleep issues with their patients,» says lead researcher Lars Erik Laugsand, MD, an internist in the public health department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim.

Those men who had trouble sleeping more than half the time were also less likely to impregnate their partner than those who didn't, the researchers found.

The researchers saw something interesting in the brain scans of short sleepers that they didn't see in the «normal» group: During their time in the MRI, their brain waves exhibited patterns more typically of sleep than of wakefulness.

Light at night is part of the reason so many people don't get enough sleep, says Lockley, and researchers have linked short sleep to increased risk for depression, as well as diabetes and cardiovascular problems.