Sentences with phrase «sleep time duration»

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And ironically, parents» sleep efficiency is not related to the number of times they're woken, but to their overall stress; e.g., mothers who exclusively breastfeed wake more often but have better quality and duration of sleep.

During their first year, the duration of their overall sleep may be about 15 hours, and the sleep's majority becomes concentrated during the night time due to the development of circadian rhythms.

The SmartMotion base can track sleep duration, REM sleep, awake time, and light, while also auto adjusting, providing responsive snoring relief and even a massage.

❍ Look at the clock when your baby begins to cry Make a note of the time your baby begins to cry on your sleep chart and keep track of the duration and intensity of his cries.

Babies arouse more frequently, but for shorter average durations than if the baby slept apart - and spend less time in deeper stages of sleep which may not be beneficial for babies with arousal deficiencies - as also shown in recently published refereed articles.

During the first year overall sleep duration falls to around 15 hours, and the majority of sleep becomes consolidated during night time as circadian rhythms develop.

For example, try keeping two separate sleep times but shortening the duration of both.

Drinking alcohol can disrupt the structure and duration of sleep states, alter total sleep time, and affect the time required to fall asleep.

For mothers who enjoy sharing sweet dreams with your baby, the research is affirming — touch and proximity are essential elements of bonding; the hormonal status that enhances bonding is at its most effective during night - time breastfeeding; continued breastfeeding maintains the release of hormones essential for mother - infant bonding, and breastfeeding is more likely to be successful for a longer duration when mothers and infants share sleep.

Additionally, a 2014 study highlights an association between later school start times for this age group and an increase in sleep duration, improved mood as well as reduced daytime sleepiness.

By the time the twins had been home for eight weeks, average sleep duration had only improved marginally to 5.6 hours daily, although this was achieved in fewer sleep episodes lasting an average of 31.8 minutes each.

These studies have consistently found increased sleep duration on school nights with later start times.

Whether the mice were kept in constant light, constant darkness or normal cycles of both, their sleep times and duration became random.

Results show that later sleep times were associated with more self - reported minutes sitting, and sleep timing remained a significant predictor of sedentary minutes after controlling for age and sleep duration.

This is a widely - used instrument that measures multiple aspects of sleep quality such as sleep duration, the amount of time it takes to fall asleep, the amount of time actually spent sleeping while in bed, nighttime disturbances, and daytime sleepiness.

«We were surprised that the heritability of depressive symptoms in twins with very short sleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins sleeping normal amounts of time,» said principal investigator Dr. Nathaniel Watson, associate professor of neurology and co-director of the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle, Wash. «Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medisleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins sleeping normal amounts of time,» said principal investigator Dr. Nathaniel Watson, associate professor of neurology and co-director of the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle, Wash. «Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep MediSleep Center in Seattle, Wash. «Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medisleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep MediSleep Medicine.

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.

Among the study's key findings was that mice given lithium chloride after alcohol consumption and mice that never consumed alcohol had the same duration of undisrupted sleep of about 10 hours per day, while untreated mice given alcohol woke up as many as 50 times per hour.

I became interested in the effects of various aspects of light — such as time of day and duration of exposure — on circadian rhythm, sleep and performance.

«Healthy sleep duration linked to less sick time from work.»

A new study suggests that among healthy adults with a habitual sleep duration of at least 6.5 hours, late sleep timing was associated with higher fast food consumption and lower vegetable intake, particularly among men, as well as lower physical activity.

«Our results help us further understand how sleep timing in addition to duration may affect obesity risk,» said principal investigator Kelly Glazer Baron, PhD, associate professor of neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

When Siegel and his team analyzed the data, the researchers found that the sleep period (total time in bed including brief bouts of waking) in all three groups was similar — between 6.9 to 8.5 hours a night, with actual sleep durations of 5.7 to 7.2 hours a night.

The researchers are further exploring this discovery, evaluating how the timing and duration of sleep may also contribute to the development or maintenance of psychological disorders.

The delay in school start time was associated with a significant (29 minute) increase in sleep duration on school nights, with the percentage of students receiving eight or more hours of sleep on a school night jumping from 18 to 44 percent.

«We see a 1 - hour difference in sleep duration between summer and winter, whereas chronic use of sleeping pills adds at most 15 minutes to sleep time.»

This time they looked at the connections between sleep duration and coronary artery calcification.

Gratitude increases sleep quality, reduces the time required to fall asleep, and increases sleep duration.

Women with longer average sleep duration said they had better genital arousal than women with shorter sleep time.

«The interaction of late timing and short sleep duration may lead to weight gain,» she says.

Studies have shown that getting consistent exercise over time actually helps improve sleep efficiency and sleep duration for young and old people alike.

Night time light exposure can decrease sleep quality, but it can also shorten the duration of sleep, leading to further problems:

This decrease in sleep duration has occurred over the same time as the increase in the prevalence of obesity and diabetes.

Upon waking from a long duration of sleep our bodies will be in a heightened state of insulin sensitivity, regardless of the time of day.

A recent 2015 study of older men also found that lower vitamin D levels were associated with shorter sleep duration and more time spent awake after initially falling asleep.

After communicating via Bluetooth and Wi - Fi with my telephone, I get to see the following: total sleep time, hours of deep and light sleep, and times and duration of periods in which I was awake.

Sleep timing and duration were assessed using sleep logs and wrist actigraphy [16], Sleep timing and duration were assessed using sleep logs and wrist actigraphy [16], sleep logs and wrist actigraphy [16], [17].

Check out content about sleep timing and duration, as well as tips to get your day started on an energizing note.

Caloric intake was not associated with BMI, light, sleep timing or duration.

Sleep duration was not associated with timing of light, BMI or total caloric intake.

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A person's clock - hour schedule of bedtime and arise time as well as nap behavior; the sleep pattern may also include time and duration of sleep interruptions.

Lahti TA, Leppamaki S, Lonnqvist J, Partonen T. Transition to daylight saving time reduces sleep duration plus sleep efficiency of the deprived sleep.

New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio

If that's the case then I practice it too, such as eating at least 4 - 5 hours before bedtime so that the duration of time without food is more than 12 hours (assuming 8 hours of sleep) plus I have a very light «dinner», a small salad plus vegetables juicing only.

Research indicates that eating kiwi can reduce the amount of time it takes to fall asleep as well as improve sleep quality and duration.

It's most commonly a 36 hour fast (the duration of a night time sleep and the full day and night following that) and then the following day eat normally again (no fasting).

The controlled CTRC study limited the duration of sleep loss and thus it is possible that given a longer time course of overeating, participants would have responded to changes in satiety and hunger hormones (35).

Circadian melatonin phase and phase relationships to scheduled sleep and wake times were similar for BL and 9 - h conditions, whereas circadian melatonin onset phase significantly delayed by ∼ 1.5 h and the duration between wake time and circadian melatonin offset phase was significantly longer in the 5 - h condition (Fig. 1).

And to add insult to injury, sleep quality and duration decline as we grow older - at a time when we need the health benefits of a good night's rest more than ever.