Sentences with phrase «sleep scientists»

Sleep scientists at New York University have been enlisting the help of epilepsy patients undergoing seizure diagnosis, who already have electrodes inserted into their brains.

A team of sleep scientists from Uppsala University now demonstrates that acute sleep loss impacts working memory differently in women and men.

Sleep scientists from the University of Liege used MRI scans to chart the volunteers» brain activity as they performed tests of attention and reaction time.

Staying up for 40 minutes extra each day, as Harvard sleep scientist Laura Barger points out, doesn't sound like much.

A NASA study led by renowned sleep scientist Mark Rosekind found that a short nap can boost workers» output by 34 %.

For 10 years, sleep scientist Dan Gartenberg has studied how we can get more efficient shuteye — and he and his colleagues might finally have an answer.

With over 40 sleep scientists dedicated to a restful night's sleep, Tomorrow set out to design the first truly connected sleep system with the knowledge, research and engineering expertise of Serta Simmons Bedding.

For instance, sleep scientists warn that the «cry it out» approach must be carefully monitored and should not be attempted on infants less than 6 months of age (France and Blampied 1999; Owens et al 1999).

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.

Sleep scientist Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and his colleagues set out to answer that question.

Are you getting enough shut - eye, asks sleep scientist Matthew Walker

But that's precisely the term employed by Harvard University sleep scientist Charles Czeisler to explain what happened when the group operating the Pathfinder mission's rover in 1997 was required to live indefinitely on Mars time.

The astronauts on such a mission would probably adapt to the sol with relative ease because they would be receiving all the appropriate light - dark signals, sleep scientists predict.

Harvard sleep scientist Steven Lockley says NASA simply doesn't take human factors as seriously as it should, adopting our culture's flippant «I'll sleep when I'm dead» attitude about getting rest.

«Although sleep scientists have generally accepted that the average sleep duration of Americans has been declining in parallel with our transformation to a frenetic 24 - hour society,» Quan wrote, «most sleep clinicians would consider those values indicative of sleep deprivation even by current standards.»

This raises a question that sleep scientists like Maas hear all the time: How much sleep does the average person need to function optimally, or even competently?

«It also helps to arise at the same time every morning, Dr. [professor and sleep scientist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine David] Dinges said.

Forward - thinking companies such as Zappos, Google, and Nike have heeded the research of sleep scientists, and now encourage team members to snooze on the job and refresh when they need it.

Such glibness can have consequences far worse than a group of grumpy, exhausted engineers, sleep scientists say.

(Though, be warned, that sleep scientists everywhere groan to read this.)

Sleep scientists would strenuously disagree.

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

«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.

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.

Now Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, says sleep scientists have it all wrong: We don't sleep to remember, we sleep to forget.

Sleep scientists have found that when specific light receptors in our eyes are exposed to a particular wavelength of blue light, we feel more alert because the brain suppresses melatonin, a key hormone in regulating sleep.

«Sleep scientists have ignored the fact that sleep could be affected by evolutionary relationships,» says Capellini.

On the eve of science writer Katie Worth's experiment to live on Mars time and blog about how it feels, she explains how living between time zones across the universe without guidance from sleep scientists can prove disastrous

About SLEEP 2015 More than 5,000 sleep medicine physicians and sleep scientists will gather at SLEEP 2015, the 29th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS), which will be held June 6 - 10 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

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 - Spokane.

Well, technically - according to Matthew Walker: sleep scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley - sleep deprivation consists of getting anything less than seven hours of sleep.

Every year, the top sleep scientists of the world gather to discuss recent discoveries in the world of sleep, with...

As a recent New York Times article noted, «Today, you'd be hard - pressed to find a health professional, a sleep scientist, or educator who would defend starting high school in the 7 a.m. hour, now the norm for many U.S. high schools, as good for physical or mental health, safety, or learning.»

I then went on to say that until then they should take note of the sleep scientists top tips for a good night sleep which includes the science of blue light from mobile phone screens and its effect on the sleep hormone melatonin.

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.