Sentences with phrase «sleep scientists say»

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

While many parents use music, sleep scientist say that simple white noise can be just as effective.

Not exact matches

When Time magazine senior editor Jeffrey Kluger contacted the authors of some of the studies cited by William Sears for an article he wrote in May 2012, the scientists said it was unfair that Sears had used their work as evidence against sleep training.

But David Asante says the Alliance has testimony of an eye witness who is also a scientist claiming the police used nitrous oxide or sleeping gas on the protesters.

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.»

Blackshaw says scientists have known for a while that the SCN functions as a master clock to synchronize sleep and other so - called circadian rhythms in humans and other mammals.

«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.

A sleep deficiency of even a small degree can disrupt our lives in a number of ways — from a setback in daily routine to bringing about or exacerbating existing chronic diseases,» said Andrew N. Carr, Ph.D., Clinical Scientist and study co-author, Procter & Gamble.

Scientists have identified differences in a group of genes they say might help explain why some people need a lot more sleep — and others less — than most.

Although the research was carried out in fruit flies, or Drosophila, the scientists say the sleep mechanism is likely to be relevant to humans.

But, he says that scientists previously believed the psychiatric problems triggered the sleep issues.

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.

«We have little understanding of how many infants in the U.S. are put into sleeping environments where soft bedding or blankets may be used,» said Carrie Shapiro - Mendoza, the study's lead author and senior scientist in the CDC's Division of Reproductive Health in Atlanta.

The research review comes with caveats: Screen time was self - reported, and scientists can't say definitively whether using electronics before bed (or just having them present) caused poor sleep.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — It's far from the ideal therapy, but scientists say a new combination of two old drugs is an important step forward in the fight against sleeping sickness, a long - neglected tropical disease.

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.

It's when you're resting, say you're semi-dozing, you're kind of lying in your chair, you're kind of relaxed or even sleeping, once upon a time we had this idea, or scientists had this idea that the brain is pretty much inactive then, that you've shut off in effect your conscious thinking, then also your brain was not doing much.

«Scientists like me can only describe what is affected [by sleep deprivation] at the behavioral level in humans,» Dinges says.

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

In a report on the research published online on May 19, 2016 in Cell, the scientists say they found a group of brain cells in charge of so - called sleep drive that becomes more active the longer flies are kept awake.

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.

«Hush little virus, don't say a word: How scientists investigate sleeping viruses: Most virus infections are «latent» (sleeping) within the nervous system.

MONDAY, Sept. 5, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Scientists say they've identified a brain circuit in mice that plays a key role in the sleep - wake cycle.

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 - SpoSleep 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 - Sposleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - SpoSleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - Spokane.

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.