«Dr. Monique LeBourgeois,
a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place shortly after morning awakening.
Perri Klass MD, highlights the impact of daytime sleep for young children in her NYT article, «A Child's Nap Is More Complicated Than It Looks» — «Dr. Monique LeBourgeois,
a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place... Read More
Not exact matches
«When people have
slept less, it's a little like looking
at the world through dark glasses,» according to Janice Kiecolt - Glaser, longtime relationship
scientist and director of the Ohio State Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research.
In other words
at least pre speech infants are still completing their gestation, so to speak, and so my own preference both as a father and
scientist is to encourage parents to let the infant and toddler
sleep as close to them as is safe for as long as they can, without specifying an artificial, arbitrary «cut off.»
Whether you were confused as to why your child wasn't
sleeping through the night
at a week old, or you installed your car seat upside - down and backwards, or you rushed Junior to the ER after you thought you heard him sneeze over your baby monitor that was developed by NASA
scientists that you never, ever looked away from, first - time parents do completely insane things.
Scientists indicate that
sleeping at lower temperature will help us to fall asleep faster and reduce the number of
sleeping interruptions during the
sleeping time which ensures that you stay comfortable for a long time.
Scientists have discovered that babies dream
at this stage of pregnancy and that their dream
sleep patterns are much the same as adults!
Clifford B. Saper, professor of neurology and neuroscience
at the Harvard Medical School and chair of the Department of Neurology
at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said that «99 percent of
scientists agree — a loss of
sleep is deleterious.»
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.
Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have discovered a link between
sleep loss and cell injury.
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.
Wireless sensors could help
scientists keep track of
sleep patterns
at home, instead of their having to rely on lab - based studies or self - reporting.
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.
But on the night of July 3,
scientists sacrificed
sleep to line up outside the main auditorium
at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva.
The research, conducted in collaboration between mathematicians and
sleep scientists, predicts that turning down the lights in the evening would be much more effective
at tackling
sleep deprivation.
«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.
When the
scientists looked for the human version of the newly identified fly marker for
sleep deprivation, they found ITGA5 and realized it hadn't been among the human immune genes they screened
at the start of the study.
In a new study publishing April 1 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology,
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biology of Ageing in Cologne have investigated the mechanisms by which ageing impairs
sleep in the fruit fly.
As new blockbuster drugs for large, general populations become harder to find — and as scientific advances make new biological approaches possible — prospective drugs that target smaller populations are getting more attention, says Dale Edgar, a research fellow and chief
scientist of a
sleep disorders research unit
at Eli Lilly, based in Guildford, U.K.
At a recent Paris scientific conference,
scientists in psychiatry discussed evidence supporting the theory that
sleep and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are intertwined.
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.
At the DPZ - field station Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco in the Peruvian Amazonian lowlands,
scientists studied how feeding,
sleeping, and ranging habits of two species of New World monkeys affect the dispersal of the neotropical legume tree Parkia panurensis.
If that goes well,
scientists can
at last stop fretting about specific milestones and instead lose
sleep over Juno's escalating radiation dose.
During the last week, participants lived
at the laboratory so that
scientists could analyze their cognitive function after an 8 - hour monitored
sleeping period.
«
Scientists like me can only describe what is affected [by
sleep deprivation]
at the behavioral level in humans,» Dinges says.
In new research being presented
at the meeting,
scientists suggest that the blood - brain barrier in the brainstem — the primitive brain area responsible for many of the body's basic functions, such as breathing, heart rate,
sleeping, and eating — could play a key role salt - induced baroreflexin regulating blood pressure.
In a pair of recent studies,
scientists looked
at the
sleep patterns of four groups of people.
Alzheimer's Research UK is funding pioneering research to unravel the link between
sleep and the amyloid protein, and it is an important area of research for
scientists working
at the UK Dementia Research Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed
at understanding the causes of dementia.
The
scientists, both vascular biologists
at the Medical College of Georgia, are Dr. Dan Rudic, who studies the circadian rhythm that drives our
sleep - wake cycle, and Dr. Zsolt Bagi, who made the connection between ADAM17 and stiff blood vessels.
Sleep scientists have long recognized the two processes of sleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - Spo
Sleep scientists have long recognized the two processes of
sleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - Spo
sleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the
Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - Spo
Sleep and Performance Research Center
at Washington State University - Spokane.
Scientists Christian Benedict and Helgi Schiöth, of the Department of Neuroscience
at Uppsala University, demonstrated in an previously posted article, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, that only one night without
sleep curbed the energy expenditure the next morning.The subjects were healthy, young men with normal weight.
In a British study,
scientists also found that people who are consistently
sleep deprived (defined as
sleeping five hours or less a night) are
at greater risk for high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems.
Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden photographed people after a normal night's
sleep and after
sleep deprivation.
When
scientists looked
at the brain waves of exercisers versus non-exercisers during the night, they found that those who work out experience more slow wave
sleep.
So researchers
at the French National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance in Paris and other institutions began to wonder about the possibilities of modified forms of low - carb diets, and specifically about what they and other
scientists call «
sleeping low.»
In a 2013 study,
scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute conducted an experiment to determine the effects of tablet displays on
sleep.
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.
Scientists have proposed ways to clear space junk by launching water
at it and have taken measures such as astronauts
sleeping in escape pods in reaction to the growing space debris problem.
At least,
scientists are generally careful to say what they know and what they don't, sometimes with enough caveats to put people to
sleep.
Scientists have been unable to determine when
sleep comes over an individual's body, but falling asleep
at the wheel can be life - threatening.
Recently the
sleep scientists have been warning of the deleterious effects on our alertness caused by the extra hour of
sleep lost or gained
at the transition to and from standard to daylight time.
What I found interesting was that less than 10 years ago, many
scientists predicted odds of 1 in 250,000, so I guess we can all
sleep better
at night.
Scientists have proven that reducing the blue light
at night leads to reduced eye fatigue and better
sleep.
Scientists at The Ohio State University knew that people with
sleep disorders or serious
sleep deprivation have higher levels of inflammation in their bodies — a risk factor for diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic conditions — than those who
sleep normally.