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The researchers say this opens up new avenues for the diagnostics and treatment of sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). (sleepreviewmag.com)
The new research showed these plaques start in the same place and spread in the same way in the brains of people with obstructive sleep apnea, as in those with Alzheimer's. (technologynetworks.com)
Our study is the first to find Alzheimer's-like amyloid plaques in the brains of people with clinically-verified obstructive sleep apnea. (technologynetworks.com)
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious condition that occurs when a person's breathing is repeatedly interrupted during sleep. (technologynetworks.com)
Another common sleep disorder is obstructive sleep apnea. (cdc.gov)
A systematic review by Kuang et al found that sleep bruxism is more common in adults with sleep-related gastroesophageal reflux disease, restless leg syndrome, periodic limb movement during sleep, obstructive sleep apnea, REM behavior disorder, and sleep-related epilepsy than in the general population. (medscape.com)
Reuters Health) - Properly treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may have benefits for the heart and for blood sugar, a new study suggests. (medscape.com)

This research has the potential to help the millions worldwide who suffer from debilitating sleep disorders," said Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D. , President of UT Southwestern. (utsouthwestern.edu)
Under the mentorship of Dr. Harvey, Catherine is interested in researching the dissemination and implementation of transdiagnostic treatments in the community setting for people with serious mental illness, sleep disorders, and other comorbidities. (berkeley.edu)
Researchers say a better understanding of these processes could lead to new ways to treat sleep disorders such as insomnia and narcolepsy. (sciencedaily.com)
A study led by UC Irvine scientists involving animals may someday lead to treatments for people with insomnia and other sleep disorders, the researchers say. (amprogress.org)
The first stage of CADET, which began in 2011 and concluded in 2013, funded centers to examine the pathways that lead to lung diseases and sleep disorders and to identify particular steps within those pathways that researchers could arrest or interfere with and thereby prevent disease development or progression. (nih.gov)
Poe noted that a chronic lack of sleep likely contributes to long-term health problems such as dementia and other cognitive disorders, and urged people to go to bed when they start to feel tired. (theavtimes.com)
So far, research has found that compared to polysomnography tests - which experts use to diagnose sleep disorders - sleep trackers are only accurate 78% of the time when identifying sleep versus wakefulness. (meatandsupplyco.com)
Professor Kronauer's research also has direct implications for the causes and possible cures for many types of sleep disorders, and for this[clarification needed] he received the Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine in June 2008. (wikipedia.org)
Latoya Simmons] What are some common sleep disorders? (cdc.gov)
Sleep disorders can be treated which can help you get a good night's sleep. (cdc.gov)
Per recent classification of sleep disorders, bruxism is defined as a sleep-related movement disorder. (medscape.com)

According to researchers from the University of Michigan, no caffeinated beverage can replace a good night's sleep. (consumeraffairs.com)
As the Christmas season approaches, University of South Australia researchers are encouraging people to prioritize a good night's sleep, as new research indicates that poor sleep may be connected with risk factors for type 2 diabetes . (businessinsider.in)
When that good night's sleep becomes elusive, sometimes the only option is medication. (jpost.com)
You can improve your chances for a good night's sleep by making sleep a priority. (cdc.gov)

Laurel Sarfan, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley mentored by Dr. Allison Harvey in the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. (berkeley.edu)
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a world-renowned academic research institute of Louisiana State University, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Sleep and Cardiometabolic Health Laboratory. (sleepresearchsociety.org)
The postdoctoral researcher will work with an interactive research group in the study of the molecular and physiological aspects of sleep mediated changes in cardiometabolic risk. (sleepresearchsociety.org)
In the first study, based on 1,600 daily interviews with 102 midlife employees in the IT industry, daily psychosocial stressors-including stressful events, situations and tensions at work, school or home-and nightly sleep had reciprocal influences, according to Soomi Lee, lead author and Penn State postdoctoral scholar. (medicalxpress.com)
In another study, Nancy Sin, postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Healthy Aging and BBH, and colleagues examined positive and negative emotions, positive events and stressors as predictors of same-night sleep quality and duration, in addition to the reversed associations of nightly sleep predicting next-day experiences. (medicalxpress.com)
I thought I would get something, but maybe not a fully working display," said Ruitao Su, the first author of the study and a 2020 University of Minnesota mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate who is now a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. (eurekalert.org)
Suddenly I was confronted with this image of what at that time felt like a mythical creature," says Boersma, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (audubon.org)

Participants were assigned to either stay awake in the lab all night or sleep at home. (consumeraffairs.com)
Both prior to the sleeping experiment and after the caffeine consumption, participants completed assessments that measured their ability to perform tasks in a given order and also maintain focus and attention. (consumeraffairs.com)
The researchers learned that caffeine certainly gave the participants an energy boost, but combining it with poor sleep led to more mistakes when completing assessments. (consumeraffairs.com)
The quality of the participants' deep sleep had decreased after the unhealthy diet, compared to those who had followed the healthier diet . (mid-day.com)
Participants were first screened for aspects such as their sleep habits, which had to be normal and within the recommended range (an average of seven to nine hours of sleep per night). (mid-day.com)
Each diet was consumed for a week, while the participants' sleep, activity and meal schedules were monitored at an individual level. (mid-day.com)
After each diet, the participants were examined in a sleep laboratory. (mid-day.com)
The participants were then kept awake in the sleep laboratory, before being allowed to catch up on sleep. (mid-day.com)
What we saw was that the participants slept for the same amount of time when they consumed the two diets. (mid-day.com)
In addition, across the two diets, the participants spent the same amount of time in the different sleep stages. (mid-day.com)
Intriguingly, we saw that deep sleep exhibited less slow-wave activity when the participants had eaten junk food, compared with consumption of healthier food. (mid-day.com)
On days following shorter and lower quality sleep than usual, participants reported higher work-to-family conflict than usual. (medicalxpress.com)
And on days following shorter sleep and lower quality sleep than usual, participants reported less time for themselves to exercise, and also less time for their children. (medicalxpress.com)
When participants slept less or poorer than usual, they perceived having less than usual time for their children the next day. (medicalxpress.com)
Researchers looked through electronic medical records from the UK Biobank, a large-scale database that contains genetic and health information on half a million participants. (medscape.com)
In their study, the researchers combined data from the UK Biobank - containing 85,670 participants - with data from three other previous studies. (edgy.app)
The study revealed that among participants with similar hip circumferences, a higher circumference resulted in less sleep time. (edgy.app)
In other words, participants with big waists generally slept less. (edgy.app)
Researchers analyzed data on 1,017 participants between the ages of 22 and 35 who participated in the Human Connectome Project at the Washington University-University of Minnesota Consortium in 2017. (dailynewsview.com)
Researchers obtained the participants' sleep and depression scores. (dailynewsview.com)
Of those participating in the project, researchers found that about 9 percent of the participants were diagnosed with a major depressive episode. (dailynewsview.com)
The participants slept two nights in the lab, using their CPAP on only one of the nights. (medscape.com)
The researchers obtained blood samples while participants slept. (medscape.com)

New research has confirmed long-suspected links between sleep apnea and Alzheimer's disease, finding identical signs of brain damage in both conditions. (technologynetworks.com)
We know that if you have sleep apnea in mid-life, you're more likely to develop Alzheimer's when you're older, and if you have Alzheimer's you are more likely to have sleep apnea than other people your age," he said. (technologynetworks.com)
Significantly, the severity of sleep apnea was linked with a corresponding build-up of amyloid plaques. (technologynetworks.com)
The study found that treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) - the standard approach for moderate to severe sleep apnea - made no difference to the amount of plaques found in the brain. (technologynetworks.com)
While the study found both plaques and tangles in the brains of people with sleep apnea, the plaques showed a stronger association with severe sleep apnea. (technologynetworks.com)
In cases of mild sleep apnea, we could only find plaques and tangles in the cortical area near the hippocampus, precisely where they are first found in Alzheimer's disease," said Robinson, a researcher in RMIT's School of Health and Biomedical Sciences and Austin Health's Institute for Breathing and Sleep (IBAS). (technologynetworks.com)
During the study, the technologist may have you try a positive airway pressure (PAP) machine for sleep apnea. (meatandsupplyco.com)
If sleeping struggles remain, do seek help from professional, checking for any underlying psychological or medical conditions, such as separation anxiety, sleep apnea or other sleep disorder. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
have sleep apnea, your breathing stops repeatedly while you're sleeping. (cdc.gov)
If your bed partner tells you that you snore, especially if the snoring is very loud, that's a strong indication that you might have sleep apnea. (cdc.gov)
One of the longstanding debates in our field" is whether sleep apnea actually causes heart issues and problems with blood sugar, "or if they're just associated," said senior author Dr. Jonathan Jun, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. (medscape.com)
In the past, researchers have tried to find a direct link between sleep apnea, heart health and blood sugar by comparing patients instructed to use CPAP at night to keep the airway open with patients who were instructed to sleep without using CPAP. (medscape.com)
These were obese patients and patients with relatively severe sleep apnea. (medscape.com)
He said the study can't say what would happen to people with milder sleep apnea. (medscape.com)
Because obesity has been tied to an increased risk of sleep apnea, it's been difficult to know if it's the sleep apnea or the obesity itself that's causing those problems, Jun noted. (medscape.com)

DALLAS - Oct. 13, 2022 - UT Southwestern sleep researcher Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D. , has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discovery of the cause of narcolepsy, marking the third Breakthrough Prize awarded to UT Southwestern scientists since the prizes were launched in 2013. (utsouthwestern.edu)

Rather than create sleep trouble during the "terrible" toddler years, I have found toddlers to be more restful and comfortable sleeping alone if they spent their infant years in a family bed. (ecochildsplay.com)
While caffeine can still be a regular part of consumers' mornings, these findings highlight that there is no substitute for getting quality, restful sleep each night. (consumeraffairs.com)
Circadin works with the body's natural processes to induce a restful, restorative sleep. (jpost.com)
Unlike other sleep medications which suppress brain activity, Neurim says that Circadin works with the body's natural processes to induce a restful, restorative sleep. (jpost.com)
It promotes a night of deeper and more restful sleep. (edgy.app)

Imposing the same strict restrictions on unhealthy food and drink as tobacco will curb the country's obesity scourge, an Otago University researcher says. (nzherald.co.nz)
Dr. Wheaton] If you have a sleep disorder, or just don't get enough sleep, you're at higher risk of drowsy driving crashes and injuries at work or sever chronic conditions, such as hypertension (or high blood pressure), obesity, and depression. (cdc.gov)

Researchers previously wondered, is there a genetic basis for so-called "COVID superdodgers," people who are exposed to the virus but were never infected? (kron4.com)
COVID-positive patients who never felt even a sniffle shared a common gene mutation, HLA B 1501, researchers discovered. (kron4.com)

Although people may feel as if they can combat sleep deprivation with caffeine, their performance on higher-level tasks will likely still be impaired. (consumeraffairs.com)
This is one of the reasons why sleep deprivation can be so dangerous. (consumeraffairs.com)
To understand the effect that caffeine and sleep deprivation can have on consumers, the researchers had 276 people participate in an overnight study. (consumeraffairs.com)
If we had found that caffeine reduced procedural errors under conditions of sleep deprivation, this would have broad implications for individuals who must perform high stakes procedures with insufficient sleep, like surgeons, pilots, and police officers," said Fenn. (consumeraffairs.com)
In today's world, poor sleep and sleep deprivation have become a common problem affecting more than a third of the world's population due to the longer work hours and commuting times, later night activity and increased dependency on electronics," Feng said. (dailynewsview.com)
in severe cases, sleep deprivation can even result in death. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
Suicide prevention efforts should consider adolescents experiencing chronic sleep deprivation. (cdc.gov)
Other studies found that the consequences of sleep deprivation extend to negative effects on mental health (7,8). (cdc.gov)

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation noted that the doctors' discoveries have led to treatments shown to relieve the symptoms of narcolepsy, as well as the design of sleep-inducing drugs. (utsouthwestern.edu)

While it may help fight lingering fatigue, a new study explored how caffeine can impact consumers who struggle with getting enough sleep . (consumeraffairs.com)
The study, conducted using fruit fly populations bred to model natural variations in human sleep patterns, provides new clues to how genes for sleep duration are linked to a wide variety of biological processes. (sciencedaily.com)
This study is an important step toward solving one of the biggest mysteries in biology: the need to sleep," says study leader Susan Harbison, Ph.D., an investigator in the Laboratory of Systems Genetics at NHLBI. (sciencedaily.com)
What is particularly interesting about this study is that we created long- and short-sleeping flies using the genetic material present in nature, as opposed to the engineered mutations or transgenic flies that many researchers in this field are using," Harbison said. (sciencedaily.com)
Uppsala University researchers examined how junk food impacts sleep in a new study. (mid-day.com)
But no study had previously investigated what happens if we consume an unhealthy diet and then compared it to quality of sleep after that same person follows a healthy diet. (mid-day.com)
Each study session involved several days of monitoring in a sleep laboratory. (mid-day.com)
This fellowship will provide training and hands-on research experience in clinical trials, cardiometabolic risk assessments, sleep study and basic bench lab techniques. (sleepresearchsociety.org)
UC Irvine pharmacology Professor Qun-Yong Zhou shows mice in their sleeping quarters as part of a study Zhou is leading on why some animals sleep at night and others sleep during the day. (amprogress.org)
In the first study of its kind, researchers found that people who reported trouble sleeping were on average more likely to have indicators of poor cardiometabolic health - inflammatory markers, cholesterol and body weight - which can contribute to type 2 diabetes . (businessinsider.in)
In this study, we examined the association of different aspects of sleep, and risk factors for diabetes, and found a connection between those who had troubled sleep and those who were at risk of type 2 diabetes. (businessinsider.in)
More research is needed, but as this study shows, it's important to think about sleep as a whole, not just as one aspect. (businessinsider.in)
This study underscores the important contributions of psychological and contextual factors in everyday life for sleep and health. (medicalxpress.com)
Instead of exhibiting an elevated fight-or-flight response, sleepwalkers in a sleep study showed more of a rest-and-digest response, which is how the body calms itself after danger has passed. (cnet.com)
The risk of developing age-related diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, heart disease and cancer, has been linked with faster 'biological' aging in an international study led by researchers at the University of Leicester. (medindia.net)
Looking further into the virus' complexities, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco launched a study focusing on why some people are asymptomatic. (kron4.com)
There are at least 400 medicinal plants present in nature which can be effective in reducing the amount of sugar level in the blood which is necessary to control Type 2 diabetes," said researchers from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Kalyani, West Bengal, in a study published in the World Journal of Diabetes. (daijiworld.com)
In order to elucidate the functioning of the brain and develop drugs against Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and depression, researchers must study the brains of laboratory animals . (mpg.de)
Researchers can determine if they need to combine years of data to achieve the appropriate sample or rethink the scope of their study altogether. (cdc.gov)
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers identified 351 people from a 46-year longitudinal study who had at least one sibling with a mental disability. (sciencedaily.com)
Russell Foster and Sally Shuttleworth explore some of the key differences and similarities in the way that Victorian and modern researchers studied/study sleep. (ox.ac.uk)
LOS ANGELES - A dramatic change in the purpose of sleep occurs when children are about 2 1/2 years old - a time when sleep's primary purpose changes from brain-building to brain maintenance and repair, according to a study released Friday by researchers at UCLA. (theavtimes.com)
Important work is being done in their brains as they sleep," said Gina Poe, the senior study author and a UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology who has conducted sleep research for more than three decades. (theavtimes.com)
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, noted that the sharp transition in sleep function is "remarkable given that this shift likely signals a profound shift in the function of sleep and the behavior of sleep processes. (theavtimes.com)
Since the respondents had to wear the device through the duration of the study, the researchers were able to collect more detailed sleep data than previous studies ever produced. (edgy.app)
During the study of the genomic regions, the researcher identified an uncommon variant of a gene called PDE11A. (edgy.app)
This study identifies genetic variants influencing sleep traits, and will provide new insights into the molecular role of sleep in humans. (edgy.app)
Then the Exeter University researchers extended the study. (edgy.app)
video: In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities used a customized printer to fully 3D print a flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. (eurekalert.org)
About 75 percent of depression sufferers reported insomnia in a 2008 study by researchers at the University of Bristol. (dailynewsview.com)
In a study published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing , researchers report that people with a predisposition to anxiety exhibit a significantly higher heart rate when they drive as opposed to those who are not predisposed to anxiety. (medicalxpress.com)
The researchers conducted the driving study with a new affective computing method they call NUBI, short for Naturalistic and UBIquitous. (medicalxpress.com)
The results of this study follow the results of an earlier study by the same researchers, who reported that certain people experience significant stress even in minute acceleration events, such as stop and go traffic. (medicalxpress.com)
Researcher Kjetil Lysne Voje led the new study on the evolution of species within the bryozoan genus Metrarabdotos. (scitechdaily.com)
This study uses timely, representative, state-level data to examine the relationship between insufficient sleep, suicidal ideation, and depressive symptoms among high school students. (cdc.gov)
But for biomedical research, sleep is a relatively new field of study. (medlineplus.gov)
Current sleep study evidence suggests that even before first tooth contact a series of physiological events occur which include activation of the autonomic cardiac system at minus 4 minutes, brain activity at minus four seconds, a rise in jaw opener muscle tone with 2 big breaths, and an increase in heart rate at minus one second. (medscape.com)
For the new study, the researchers recruited 31 people with moderate to severe OSA who were known to regularly use their CPAP machines. (medscape.com)

Dr. James McKenna of the University of Notre Dame has spent 30 years researching infant sleep. (ecochildsplay.com)
An international research team led by University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) scientists discovered that by preventing cancer cells from entering a state of cellular sleep, cancer drugs are more effective, and there is a lower chance of cancer recurrence. (upmc.com)
studies designed to allow the mechanistic effect of different diets on sleep to be isolated," said Jonathan Cedernaes, Physician and Associate Professor in Medical Cell Biology at Uppsala University. (mid-day.com)
A new deep learning model developed by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland can identify sleep stages as accurately as an experienced physician. (sleepreviewmag.com)
To overcome these challenges, researchers at the University of Eastern Finland used polysomnographic recording data from healthy individuals and individuals with suspected OSA to develop an accurate deep learning model for automatic classification of sleep stages. (sleepreviewmag.com)
The Sleep Technology and Analytics Group, STAG, at the University of Eastern Finland solves sleep diagnostics challenges by using a variety of different approaches. (sleepreviewmag.com)
Saying 'thank you' and showing appreciation can act as an effective buffer to divorce and dictate how committed partners feel in their relationship, according to researchers at University of Georgia. (independent.co.uk)
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered what regulates an enzyme that is central to the growth of cancer tumours. (health.am)
Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered what controls the enzyme that aids the growth of cancer tumours. (health.am)
In studying this condition, researchers at Yale University have discovered that the protein YKL-40 is elevated in the lungs and blood of a subgroup of patients with severe asthma. (nih.gov)
Now, an international collaboration led by the University of Exeter has found a relationship between our genetic code and sleep. (edgy.app)
University of Otago researchers are the recipients of an inaugural Marsden Fund Council Award worth $3 million to investigate genetic predisposition to metabolic diseases like diabetes and gout among Pacific people. (otago.ac.nz)
Principal investigators, Professors Tony Merriman and Lisa Matisoo-Smith and Dr Anna Gosling from Otago join Associate Professor Frank Camacho from the University of Guam and Dr Paul Pumuye of the University of Papua New Guinea and their team of researchers in the project. (otago.ac.nz)
They are one of two large interdisciplinary projects to receive the inaugural Marsden Fund Council Awards with the Marsden Fund (Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden) allocating a further $19 million to University of Otago researchers for another 31 projects. (otago.ac.nz)
Brain regions associated with short-term memory, self and negative emotions can lead people down a hole of misery and depression, leading to bad sleep quality, according to researchers at the University of Warwick in England. (dailynewsview.com)
Alas, researchers from the University of Houston and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found that even under such ideal conditions, daily driving is stressful to many people, and for intriguing reasons. (medicalxpress.com)
In a new paper from researchers at the University of Oslo, the authors claim to have found several methodological problems in the most famous and well-trusted example supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium. (scitechdaily.com)

Getting less than this recommended amount of sleep, the study's authors found, was associated with lower scores on phonological awareness, literacy and early math skills. (inmenlo.com)
Nearly all of the brain repair occurs during sleep, according to the study's senior author, Van Savage, a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of computational medicine. (theavtimes.com)
The study's researchers also found drivers' heart rate increased significantly with car speed. (medicalxpress.com)

Previous epidemiological studies have shown that diets with greater sugar content, for example, are linked to poorer sleep. (mid-day.com)

The researchers also found that the lifespan of the naturally long and short sleepers did not differ significantly from the flies with normal sleeping patterns. (sciencedaily.com)
Several epidemiological studies have found that what we eat influences how we sleep. (mid-day.com)
Researchers in the Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH) at Penn State found that sleep quality and quantity at night is affected by that day's stressors, and sleep hours and quality affect daily stressors the next day. (medicalxpress.com)
Researchers found work interfering with personal and family life, and perception of not having enough time for family and personal life-the most prevalent stressors in midlife-were associated with interrupted sleep and a longer period of time before falling asleep. (medicalxpress.com)
We found that shorter and lower quality sleep tended to lead to more stressors on the following day," Lee said. (medicalxpress.com)
They found that better sleep quality was linked to improved emotions, more positive events, and fewer stressors on the following day. (medicalxpress.com)
Researchers have found that smoking causes chromosomal damage and speeds up aging. (medicaldaily.com)
Although happiness may vary between people based on personal experiences, the researchers found that life satisfaction - one of the factors that determines happiness - decreases after the age of nine and increases between the ages of 70 and 96. (medicaldaily.com)
The researchers found people who had siblings with mental illnesses were 63 percent more likely to report having a depressive episode during their lifetime. (sciencedaily.com)
The researchers also found those who had a brother with a mental illness had lower levels of psychological well-being than those in the comparison group. (sciencedaily.com)
Researchers, who used data from more than 60 sleep studies involving humans and other mammals, found that all species experienced a dramatic decline in REM sleep when they reached the human developmental equivalent of about 2 1/2 years of age. (theavtimes.com)
Generally, we've found the Fitbit Sense to produce the most reliable and actionable data of any wrist-based sleep tracker. (meatandsupplyco.com)
A neural link between depression and poor sleep has been found by researchers, which they believe could lead to new targeted treatments for the neurological condition and insomnia. (dailynewsview.com)
Researchers have found a neural link between depression and sleeplessness, findings they believe could lead to new targeted treatments for the conditions. (dailynewsview.com)
This particular sequence has been found to occur in close to 80% of rhythmic jaw movements associated with tooth grinding during sleep. (medscape.com)
If people with OSA don't use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) at night to help keep the airway open, measures of their heart health and blood sugar worsen, researchers found. (medscape.com)

But the depth or integrity of the sleep stages can also be negatively affected by factors such as insomnia and ageing. (mid-day.com)
Dr. Wheaton] The most common sleep disorder is insomnia. (cdc.gov)

While we sleep, our brains are not resting. (theavtimes.com)

Results indicate that among sleep habits, having a regular bedtime was the most consis-tent predictor of positive developmental outcomes at four years of age. (inmenlo.com)
How soundly we sleep, when we go to bed and get up, and how regular our sleep habits are, may be just as important as sleep duration. (businessinsider.in)
Bad sleeping habits? (canadianimmigrant.ca)
There are no hard and fast rules for ideal sleeping habits. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
By having a plan, families can have reduced stress and better sleep habits. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
The key to good sleeping routine is to be consistent, model good sleeping habits for children and work as a team so everyone can develop the healthy sleeping routine. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
Poor sleep habits, like having an irregular sleep schedule can also cause problems. (cdc.gov)

In this case, sleep is a powerful source of resilience in difficult times," said Orfeu Buxton, associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State, director of the Sleep, Health and Society Laboratory, and senior author of the two studies. (medicalxpress.com)

Which device would a sleep researcher use to monitor a sleeping person's brain waves? (meatandsupplyco.com)

It's an important advance in our understanding of the links between these conditions and opens up new directions for researchers striving to develop therapies for treating, and hopefully preventing, Alzheimer's disease. (technologynetworks.com)
The researchers looked for both amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, another known indicator of Alzheimer's disease. (technologynetworks.com)

I'm deeply honored to get this award, which recognizes not only our work but the field of basic sleep research," Dr. Yanagisawa said. (utsouthwestern.edu)
The following year, he showed that orexin deficiency causes narcolepsy, which paved the way for more extensive sleep research. (utsouthwestern.edu)
The findings, which will be published in the August 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research and are available online, are the first to show that it is possible to therapeutically target cancer cells to keep them from entering a cellular state called quiescence, or "cell sleep. (upmc.com)
Emma Agnew is a Community Facilitator and Supervisor in the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. (berkeley.edu)
She then returned to UC Berkeley, as a Project Coordinator with The Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. (berkeley.edu)
However, few research have looked into how nutrition impacts sleep directly. (mid-day.com)
Children in households with bedtime rules and children who get adequate sleep score higher on a range of developmental assessments, according to a research conducted by Erika Gaylor, PhD, early childhood policy researcher for SRI International in Menlo Park. (inmenlo.com)
Dr. Eeeseung Byun , a UW professor of nursing, recently received funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research to better understand the underlying causes of sleep disturbances, fatigue and impaired cognition in patients who have experienced a subarachnoid hemorrhage. (uw.edu)
The findings may also inform future research on the work-family balance and the effects of sleep on physical and psychosocial health. (medicalxpress.com)
Lee's findings were published online in a recent issue of Journal of Sleep Research . (medicalxpress.com)
Until that research, it had been 30 years since researchers had published a prevalence rate of sleepwalking in the US, and there hasn't been an update since. (cnet.com)
Researchers also have another tool to determine the scope of available research, saving them time and even providing an opportunity to assess data before finalizing a research proposal: feasibility files. (cdc.gov)
Dr. Jennifer Parker, Special Projects Branch Chief, says that feasibility files are invaluable to researchers contemplating submitting a proposal to NCHS' Research Data Center (RDC). (cdc.gov)
This can save researchers time in the RDC, and can even help them avoid the inevitable disappointment of discovering that the linked files they have selected don't provide sufficient data to answer their research questions. (cdc.gov)
Dr. Parker says that using the feasibility files gives researchers an opportunity to think about their analysis beforehand and to fashion research based on the available data. (cdc.gov)
The electroencephalogram (EEG) is the most common tool used in sleep research. (meatandsupplyco.com)
however, additional research is needed to further investigate the relationship between sleep and mental health among adolescents. (cdc.gov)
Emerging research suggests insufficient sleep can heighten the risk of poor mental health among adolescents. (cdc.gov)
Engaged in several projects that address these challenging questions, IIIEE researcher Matthias Lehner shares his insights and reflections in an interview with MISTRA, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. (lu.se)
More and more researchers and industry clients are searching for holistic infrastructures to be able to combine, for example, cellular research with animal and human studies. (lu.se)
In the morning session, Dr. John Howard, the WTC Health Program Administrator, gave opening remarks, followed by two panels of leading researchers who each discussed the health effects from the 9/11 attacks and their recent research. (cdc.gov)

The researchers hope that these findings encourage consumers to adopt healthier sleep routines. (consumeraffairs.com)
Instead, our findings underscore the importance of prioritizing sleep. (consumeraffairs.com)
The findings, from two separate studies, suggest that better sleep may promote positive experiences and less conflict, as well as more time for self, such as exercise, and more time with children, according to the researchers. (medicalxpress.com)
Aside from bringing the feeling of happiness and wellbeing, findings show that serotonin also plays a vital role in the sleep cycle. (edgy.app)
With the findings, the researchers hope to develop a new form of treatments to not only improve sleep but our overall health. (edgy.app)
These findings provide a neural basis for understanding how depression relates to poor sleep quality, and this in turn has implications for treatment of depression and improvement of sleep quality because of the brain areas identified. (dailynewsview.com)
Findings underscore the importance of addressing the role of sleep as a modifiable risk factor contributing to mental health difficulties among adolescents. (cdc.gov)

Common symptoms that occur after subarachnoid hemorrhage include having sleep problems, feeling tired, having a hard time concentrating or solving problems, not being able to remember things, and having a hard time talking. (uw.edu)
But the sleeping pills now on the market often come with risks that may outweigh the benefits, inducing dependency, withdrawal symptoms, and occasionally even cognitive impairments such as short-term amnesia. (jpost.com)
We examined the relationship between sleep, depressive symptoms, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Florida high school students. (cdc.gov)

The push in the western world to get babies to sleep through the night on their own as young as possible is doing more harm than good. (ecochildsplay.com)
New parents often brag about how their babies can sleep through the night as if it is a sign of good parenting (or how good their babies are). (ecochildsplay.com)
The question is not whether babies as young as three or four months can sleep through the night, but whether they should be forced to," he said. (ecochildsplay.com)
He said that trying to get your baby to sleep through the night at a young age can actually cause more stress for a family than waking to a baby does. (ecochildsplay.com)
Caffeine increases energy, reduces sleepiness, and can even improve mood, but it absolutely does not replace a full night of sleep," said researcher Kimberly Fenn. (consumeraffairs.com)
There, they were first allowed to sleep a normal night, while their brain activity was measured to monitor their sleep. (mid-day.com)
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, preschool children should get a minimum of 11 hours of sleep each night. (inmenlo.com)
A day with less stress and conflict is followed by a night where it's easier to get to sleep. (medicalxpress.com)
Having a good night of sleep is more likely to be followed by a workday with less stress and conflict. (medicalxpress.com)
One exception to this consistent pattern was that perceiving less time for children also preceded shorter sleep hours and lower quality sleep that night. (medicalxpress.com)
According to statistics , 35 percent of Americans don't get the recommended seven hours of sleep per night, and the number jumps to 97 percent when you consider teenagers alone. (edgy.app)
I was not able to sleep, the whole night. (eurekalert.org)
By tracking HRV at night, most external factors are absent, providing a more accurate measure, Sleep Number states, adding that high HRV, for example, may indicate greater cardiovascular fitness and physical recovery ability. (meatandsupplyco.com)
For some, co-sleeping can improve sleeping, yet for others, bed sharing can disrupt sleep if the person or pet move around throughout the night. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
8 h of sleep on an average school night). (cdc.gov)
Sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS) is a condition characterized by unexpected cardiac arrest in young adults, usually at night during sleep. (medlineplus.gov)
Dr. Wheaton] Adults should aim to get seven or more hours of sleep per night on a regular basis. (cdc.gov)
Make sure you have enough time built into your schedule to get seven or more hours of sleep per night. (cdc.gov)
Grinding or clinching that occurs at night is termed sleep bruxism. (medscape.com)
People who fit that description may be experiencing the same changes during the night if they sleep without their CPAP machine, he said. (medscape.com)

How do wearable devices measure sleep? (meatandsupplyco.com)

The involvement of highly diverse biological processes in sleep duration may help explain why the purpose of sleep has been so elusive. (sciencedaily.com)
But the exact genes controlling the duration of sleep and the biological processes that are linked to these genes have remained unclear. (sciencedaily.com)
The scientists then compared genetic data between the long and short sleepers and identified 126 differences among 80 genes that appear to be associated with sleep duration. (sciencedaily.com)
Until now, whether sleep at such extreme long or short duration could exist in natural populations was unknown. (sciencedaily.com)
Researchers examined a range of sleep characteristics: self-report trouble sleeping, duration, timing, efficiency, and day-to-day sleep length variability. (businessinsider.in)
While 26 genetic codes are associated with sleep quality, another ten work with sleep duration. (edgy.app)

People say they don't co-sleep with their babies," he said. (ecochildsplay.com)
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. (sciencedaily.com)
People who reported having trouble sleeping were also more likely to have a higher body mass index, as well as blood markers of cholesterol and inflammation," Dr Matricciani says. (businessinsider.in)
Researchers are still trying to understand what gets people out of their beds, without any memory the next morning. (cnet.com)
People may start sleeping less well when they age," Zisapel points out. (jpost.com)
People who live to 100 years have lower measures of creatinine, glucose and uric acid in their blood compared to those with a comparatively shorter lifespan, researchers say. (medicaldaily.com)
People who have a sibling with a mental illness are more likely to suffer episodes of depression at some point in their lives, say researchers who analyzed four decades of data. (sciencedaily.com)
The researchers also looked at results from a comparison group of 791 people who did not have a mentally disabled sibling. (sciencedaily.com)
Among clinical populations, Neil is particularly recognised internationally for his work developing interventions for people with severe and complex mental health problems, and he is one of the world's most published researchers on persisting experiences of hearing voices (auditory hallucinations): an intrusive and highly distressing experience in a range of populations. (edu.au)
The researchers said they recruited volunteers from Texas, where most people commute daily, the weather is usually good and traffic conditions are ideal in mid-size cities. (medicalxpress.com)
For example, people who do shift work or work multiple jobs tend to have trouble getting enough good quality sleep. (cdc.gov)
A lot of people suffer from a sleep disorder which can seriously impact how much and how well you sleep. (cdc.gov)
Many people don't realize that alcohol can actually disturb your sleep. (cdc.gov)

The Sleep Health Index reveals that insufficient sleep affects the daily lives of 43 percent of Americans at least once in seven days. (edgy.app)
After adjustments, we observed disparities in mental health between adolescents with and without insufficient sleep. (cdc.gov)
Multivariate logistic regressions were used to calculate odds ratios measuring the association between insufficient sleep, poor mental health, and suicidality. (cdc.gov)
One modifiable risk factor receiving increased attention from researchers is insufficient sleep. (cdc.gov)
Studies have shown that serious health consequences of insufficient sleep among adolescents range from increased risk-taking behaviors, such as substance use and impaired driving, to decreased physical well-being and perceived quality of life (4-6). (cdc.gov)

While the causes of sleepwalking remain unclear, we know that while asleep, sleepwalkers can experience an abnormal interplay between processes linked to arousal and to deep sleep, even outside of their episodes," two of the authors wrote. (cnet.com)

The National Sleep Foundation reports that forty-five percent of Americans' sleep problems affected their daily activities at least once a week in their inaugural Sleep Health Index, and the World Health Organization says about 3 percent of the world's population has a major depressive disorder. (dailynewsview.com)

Another sleep disorder is restless leg syndrome. (cdc.gov)

Some of the genes identified have known functions in brain development, as well as roles in learning and memory, the researchers said. (sciencedaily.com)
Furthermore, each sleep stage is hallmarked by different types of electrical activity in the brain. (mid-day.com)
This regulates aspects such as how restorative sleep is, and differs across different brain regions. (mid-day.com)
As the team - led by Qun-Yong Zhou, a UCI professor of pharmacology - studied the sleeping and waking patterns of mice and monkeys, the group determined that the patterns were not governed by a specific portion of the brain commonly thought to be the body's "master clock. (amprogress.org)
The researchers generated three-dimensional tissue cultures from precursors of human brain cells. (mpg.de)
Researchers can produce up to 20,000 brain organoids per day and simultaneously supply and test them. (mpg.de)
The transition at about age 2 1/2 corresponds to changes in brain development, according to researchers, who say that sleep then helps repair a certain amount of neurological damage suffered during waking hours, and essentially declutter the brain. (theavtimes.com)

To learn more, scientists artificially bred 13 generations of wild fruit flies to produce flies that were either long sleepers (sleeping 18 hours each day) or short sleepers (sleeping 3 hours each day). (sciencedaily.com)
But when we think about sleep, we mainly focus on how many hours of sleep we get, when we should also be looking at our sleep experience as a whole," Dr Matricciani says. (businessinsider.in)
The data can seem a little harsh, often chopping eight hours in bed down to just six hours of sleep. (meatandsupplyco.com)
The researchers also monitored the volunteers during their non-driving hours to establish the uniqueness of any driving effects. (medicalxpress.com)
As they get older, children need less sleep, but even teenagers need at least eight hours. (cdc.gov)

Latoya Simmons] Dr. Wheaton, are Americans in general getting enough sleep? (cdc.gov)
Dr. Wheaton] Millions of Americans aren't getting enough sleep. (cdc.gov)

Getting parents to set bedtime routines can be an important way to make a significant impact on children's emergent literacy and language skills," said Dr. Gaylor, who recommends that parents help their preschooler get sufficient sleep by setting an appropriate time for their child to go to bed and interacting with their child at bedtime using routines such as reading books or telling stories. (inmenlo.com)
Sufficient sleep is critical for maintaining good health. (cdc.gov)

Clinical Studies - all aspects of clinical studies including recruitment, consenting, sleep studies and compliance monitoring. (sleepresearchsociety.org)
Prior experience in conduction sleep studies. (sleepresearchsociety.org)
Past studies have identified different causes of poor sleep. (edgy.app)
Past studies have linked changes in sleep quantity, quality and timing with several human diseases. (edgy.app)

Both poor diet and poor sleep increase the risk of several public health conditions . (mid-day.com)
As what we eat is so important for our health, we thought it would be interesting to investigate whether some of the health effects of different diets could involve changes to our sleep. (mid-day.com)
Prachi Singh, Sleep and Cardiometabolic Health Lab. (sleepresearchsociety.org)
When it comes down to the crunch, we know we must prioritise our sleep to help stay in good health. (businessinsider.in)
Sleep is a barometer of good health in the elderly. (medindia.net)
NCHS' record linkage program gives researchers a valuable resource, enabling them to take the "long view" and examine the factors that influence disability, chronic disease, health care utilization, morbidity, and mortality. (cdc.gov)
Quality and quantity of sleep is more important than most realize, as it can affect one's physical and mental health. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
Increased attention to sleep as a modifiable risk factor for mental health among adolescents is particularly important because of the many less modifiable factors that contribute to mental health difficulties in this population. (cdc.gov)
Adolescent mental health programs should consider sleep an important factor in suicide prevention. (cdc.gov)
Dr. Anne Wheaton is a researcher with CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (cdc.gov)
If you have sleep problems and suspect you might have a sleep disorder, even if you just tend to feel really sleepy, in spite of a full night's sleep, you should talk to your health care provider. (cdc.gov)
Background: Firefighters undergo significant occupational health burdens, such as physical exertion, emotional trauma, and sleep deficiency, all impacting firefighters and their families. (cdc.gov)
The photo depicts an Angolan woman in M'Banza Congo, who was seated on her clinic bed, being treated for African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, during a CDC surveillance project, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Angolan Ministry of Health (MoH). (cdc.gov)

Our sleep consists of different stages with different functions, such as deep sleep which regulates hormonal release, for example. (mid-day.com)
Previously, it has not been investigated whether similar changes in our sleep stages can occur after exposure to different diets. (mid-day.com)
Traditionally, sleep is manually classified into five stages, which are wake, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and three stages of non-REM sleep. (sleepreviewmag.com)
In healthy individuals, the model was able to identify sleep stages with an 83.7% accuracy when using a single frontal electroencephalography channel (EEG), and with an 83.9% accuracy when supplemented with electrooculogram (EOG). (sleepreviewmag.com)
Fitbit does possess the power to use your heart rate to work out when you're in REM sleep and provide full sleep stages. (meatandsupplyco.com)
At the point when we rest our minds travel through a few stages, from a light sleep to a profound rest that feels like we've fallen oblivious, to fast eye development (REM) rest, when we're bound to have dreams. (popularsys.com)

Scientists have known for some time that, in addition to our biological clocks, genes play a key role in sleep and that sleep patterns can vary widely. (sciencedaily.com)
Sleep patterns in college students: Gender and grade differences. (bvsalud.org)

To find out how their intelligence works, we're going to turn the mics over to Emily Kwong and Aaron Scott, co-hosts of Short Wave, NPR's daily science podcast, for a story about octopus researcher Dominic Sivitilli. (npr.org)

In the final article in this series, we present projects that may provide therapeutics for severe asthma, pulmonary hypertension, and sleep-disordered breathing. (nih.gov)

Finally, a doctor (PhD) and researcher is declaring what families from the beginning of time have known: co-sleeping is safe! (ecochildsplay.com)
Lee said having lack of time for children is a salient stressor among midlife parents, thus may both precede and follow nightly sleep replenishment. (medicalxpress.com)
Newborns spend about 50% of their sleep time in REM sleep, with that number falling to about 25% by the age of 10 and continuing to decrease with age. (theavtimes.com)
Adults who are older than 50 spend about 15% of their time asleep in REM, according to researchers. (theavtimes.com)
Aside from identifying the genetic basis of poor sleep, the researchers also discovered a link between waist circumference and sleep time. (edgy.app)
This data is then analyzed using an algorithm to estimate sleep time and quality. (meatandsupplyco.com)
Researchers believe it is the first time the neural mechanisms underlying the association of depression and sleep have been studied in a large sample. (dailynewsview.com)
The relation between depression and sleep has been observed more than 100 years, and now we have identified the neural mechanisms of how they are connected for the first time," Feng said. (dailynewsview.com)
However, if you constantly struggle with bedtime routines, such as children refusing to go bed and wake up on scheduled time, or lack of sleep affecting children's academic performance and mood, then we need to examine our family's bedtime routine. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
There are concerning signs that time spent outdoors, exercising, sleeping, and reading - all activities with low carbon footprints and beneficial to human well-being - is diminishing. (lu.se)

Editor's note: Ahead of Wellbeing Week 5-9 July 2021, we will be publishing a series of blog posts that reflect some of the sessions that will be on offer for researchers. (liverpool.ac.uk)

post_ads]Depression and sleep problems have previously been closely associated. (dailynewsview.com)
With depression and sleepnessness "almost everyone in the world is related to these two problems, as a sufferer or a relative of a sufferer," Dr. Jianfeng Feng, a researcher in Warwick's Department of Computer Science, said in a press release. (dailynewsview.com)

It can aid in falling asleep faster and better quality of sleep. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
It may help you fall asleep but your sleep quality suffers. (cdc.gov)

Their work showed that caffeine can help consumers feel more alert, but the body needs regular sleep to perform at its best. (consumeraffairs.com)
Our results suggest the possibility that efforts to improve sleep quality may promote better mood and reduce stressors across work and personal contexts," Sin said. (medicalxpress.com)

A key regulator of the cancer cell sleep process is a protein complex called DREAM, which is named for the multiple proteins involved. (upmc.com)
To combat the negative effects of this protein, the Yale researchers have developed and are testing monoclonal antibodies against YKL-40. (nih.gov)

The data show that many children are not getting the recommended amount of sleep, which may have negative consequences for their development and school achievement. (inmenlo.com)
Because Circadin was a new kind of sleep medication, regulators insisted on much more clinical data than they had with other medications. (jpost.com)
But you can easily see lifestyle variables in the data better than other sleep trackers. (meatandsupplyco.com)
During an that effectively break transmission chains also invade the interdisciplinary meeting of researchers, ethicists, data se- private sphere of affected persons or communities and of- curity specialists, information and communication technol- ten are at odds with personal liberties ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
Researcher Knowledge, Attitudes, and Communication Practices for Genomic Data Sharing. (cdc.gov)

Specifically, we looked at slow-wave activity, a measure that can reflect how restorative deep sleep is. (mid-day.com)

The upshot: "Behavior is regulated by a kind of archaic survival system like the one that is activated during fight or flight," Lino Nobili, a sleep researcher at Niguarda Hospital in Milan, told Aeon. (cnet.com)
They collaborated with other analysts at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts General Hospital. (edgy.app)

Anti co-sleeping and family bed advocates often point to an increased risk of SIDS from sharing a bed with your baby as reason why baby should sleep alone in a crib. (ecochildsplay.com)

Bruxism is also considered a natural behavior that stimulates salivation during sleep. (medscape.com)

The stunning late-September rediscovery could not have happened without guidance from local hunters with intimate knowledge of the island's forests, the researchers say, demonstrating the invaluable role of Indigenous communities in ongoing efforts to relocate species lost to Western science. (audubon.org)

The researchers also saw increases in blood pressure and in arterial stiffness, which has been linked with a risk for heart problems. (medscape.com)

To address these treatment shortcomings for lung diseases and sleep-disordered breathing, the NHLBI created the Centers for Advanced Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics in Lung Diseases (CADET) program to stimulate the development of new drugs and diagnostics for pulmonary diseases and sleep-disordered breathing. (nih.gov)

Researchers have long suspected that this type of receptor could be involved with Raynaud, but there was debate over which receptor subtype was responsible. (medscape.com)

For a month the researchers had traversed slender mountain ridges, crossed and re-crossed rivers that roared through canyons cloaked in tropical forest, and endured bloodthirsty mosquitoes and leeches, all in search of something that probably didn't exist. (audubon.org)

Poor sleep costs the United States economy as much as $411 billion annually . (edgy.app)
What's responsible for the poor sleep, you ask? (edgy.app)
On those nights, patients had low levels of oxygen in their blood, poor sleep and an increased heart rate. (medscape.com)

Sleep disturbances, fatigue and impaired cognition are common effects of the condition that, for many patients, last long after the initial emergency has been resolved. (uw.edu)
According to the researchers, deep learning enables automatic sleep staging for suspected OSA patients with a high accuracy. (sleepreviewmag.com)
The researchers are also developing a diagnostic test that would measure YKL-40 levels in the blood and enable doctors to determine the proper dose of the antibodies for different patients. (nih.gov)

Researchers have determined that SUNDS and Brugada syndrome are the same disorder. (medlineplus.gov)

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