Sentences with phrase «sleep researchers say»

One sleep researcher says that smartphone addiction is proving an additional delay to sleep onset, meaning some kids are only getting six hours of sleep a night.

Not exact matches

Harvard sleep researcher Robert Stickgold says naps can even make people better problem solvers.

«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.

Though the researcher said there needs to be more research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention.»

The lead researcher, Dr. Matthew Walker... said the findings support the idea that sleep is a necessary process that clears the brain's short term memory storage so there is room to absorb new information.

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.»

«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).

My wife and I were shocked when we read what pediatric sleep researchers had to say about normal sleep for human infants and the idea that infants must «self - soothe.»

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.

But the Penn State researchers warn against this practice, saying that feeding a baby back to sleep teaches the baby that late - night crying comes with a reward.

What you should watch for, say researchers, are symptoms that last more than a few days, change your daily activities, or your sleep patterns.

Additionally, because infants inhale significantly higher air volume per body weight than adults and sleep a longer time, they experience about 10 times as much inhalation exposure as adults when exposed to the same level of VOCs, the researchers said.

The researchers say these findings suggest supine sleep position may be an additional risk for late - pregnancy, especially in vulnerable cases and more research is needed.

Prone sleeping on soft bedding may cause the infant to be smothered or overheated, researchers say.

Researchers know that circadian clocks in mammals control the internal body temperature to drive sleep patterns, says Orie Shafer, principal investigator of the study.

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.

«Although the effects of light are well studied in adults, virtually nothing is known about how evening light exposure affects the physiology, health and development of preschool - aged children,» said lead author Lameese Akacem, a CU Boulder instructor and researcher in the Sleep and Development Lab.

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.

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.

«This is the first reliable evidence that a lunar rhythm can modulate sleep structure in humans when measured under the highly controlled conditions of a circadian laboratory study protocol without time cues,» the researchers say.

Researchers say we feel refreshed if wakened during the second of the four stages of sleep.

The findings add to evidence for an important information - processing role of sleep spindles in the service of memory consolidation, the researchers say.

«Despite the prevalence of abnormal sleep patterns in PD, very few studies to date have outlined sleep disturbances in animal models of PD,» says Sarah M. Rothman, PhD, a researcher with the National Institute on Aging, in Baltimore, MD..

Knowing more about spindles could also help researchers design drugs or behavioral techniques that deepen sleep, says Ellenbogen.

In a series of experiments sparked by fruit flies that couldn't sleep, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a mutant gene — dubbed «Wide Awake» — that sabotages how the biological clock sets the timing for sleep.

«The animal comes inside the camp looking for a warm place to sleep beneath» — referring to human bodies in hammocks, says Etiam Pérez, a Cuban crocodile researcher and manager of the Zapata Swamp Captive Breeding Farm.

This will allow us to research obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women more effectively, and to develop and implement more effective treatments,» said co-author Dr. Suzanne Karan, a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center who is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Anesthesiology Respiratory Physiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

The researchers say the results may apply to patients with sleep apnea undergoing surgeries such as prostatectomies and hysterectomies, and this is an area currently being investigated.

«As researchers, increasing awareness of short sleep and its consequences remains a critically important task to improve public health,» said Basner.

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.

«When I heard about it, I couldn't sleep,» says Yael Kalai, a senior researcher working in cryptography at Microsoft Research New England who has also worked on randomness extraction.

Researchers say the findings show twitches during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep comprise a different class of movement and provide further evidence that sleep twitches activate circuits throughout the developing brain.

Additionally, because infants inhale significantly higher air volume per body weight than adults and sleep a longer time, they experience about 10 times as much inhalation exposure as adults when exposed to the same level of VOCs, the researchers said.

In addition, increased fish consumption was associated with fewer disturbances of sleep, which the researchers say indicates better overall sleep quality.

«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.

«We had expected to see a handful of contradictions in the safe sleeping category, as previous researchers had shown most pictures of sleeping infants in these magazines depicted unsafe positions, but we were surprised at the sheer number and breadth of categories where we found offenses,» said lead author Michael B. Pitt, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital.

Hunter - gatherers and farming villagers who live in worlds without lightbulbs or thermostats sleep slightly less at night than smartphone - toting city slickers, researchers say.

Because these songs were made for a purpose — like putting a baby to sleep — researchers writing this month in Current Biology say they likely share common universal traits.

The discovery will not only help researchers better understand the complex control of sleep and dreaming in the brain, the researchers said, but will allow scientists to stop and start dreaming at will in mice to learn why we dream.

«Optimal sleep duration should be promoted, as very long and very short sleep indicate health problems and subsequent sickness absence,» said principal investigator Tea Lallukka, PhD, specialized researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

Researchers in Australia say that an unpredictable food supply makes the animals sleep longer and more frequently than a restricted food supply.

They found that, contrary to their expectations, it was not the amount of sleep that mattered, it was timing, says Carol Maher, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of South Australia and lead researcher on the study.

«Earlier studies have found a relation between reduced sleep and low - grade inflammation,» says Maria Luojus, MHSc, one of the study researchers.

But people without TV and laptops skimp on sleep too, researchers say.

«We know that sleep is important for cardiovascular health and many studies have linked poor or insufficient sleep with increased risk factors for cardiovascular - related diseases,» said Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, a researcher in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of this study.

Researchers say they hope their study opens the door to better diagnosis and treatment of the most common and often intractable sleep disorder that affects an estimated 15 percent of the United States population.