Tag: Sleep

Health Apps Could Help Older Adults With Anything From Sleep to Diabetes, but Most Don’t Use Them

February 9, 2022
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Ann Arbor, MI — Mobile apps make it possible to track everything from exercise and calories to blood pressure and blood sugar, and use the information to stay on target with health goals or managing...

The Brain Pays Attention to Unfamiliar Voices During Sleep, Says Study

January 18, 2022
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Washington, DC — A good night’s sleep is not as simple as it appears. While you snooze, your brain continues to monitor the environment, balancing the need to protect sleep with the need to wake up....

Teens Not Getting Enough Sleep May Consume 4.5 Extra Pounds of Sugar During a School Year, Study Finds

January 7, 2022
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Provo, UT — Sleep is vital for all people but is particularly important for teenagers as their bodies undergo significant development during their formative years. Unfortunately, most teens aren’t...

Reactivating Memories During Sleep Improves Motor Skills, Says Study

October 19, 2021
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Washington, DC — Practice makes perfect, but sleep helps, too. Learning and executing a new motor skill can be enhanced if you can get additional memory processing during sleep, according to new research...

Lonely Flies, Like Many Humans, Eat More and Sleep Less

August 25, 2021
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New York, NY — COVID-19 lockdowns scrambled sleep schedules and stretched waistlines. One culprit may be social isolation itself. Scientists have found that lone fruit flies quarantined in test tubes...

Natural Antibiotics Produced in Wounds Increase Sleep and Survival After Injury

December 11, 2020
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Dresden, Germany — They signal across tissues from the site of injury to the brain, sending a message to increase sleep and raise the chances for surviving the injury. The results have been published...

Worms Reveal Why Melatonin Promotes Sleep

November 16, 2020
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Storrs, CT — Melatonin is used as a dietary supplement to promote sleep and get over jet lag, but nobody really understands how it works in the brain. Now, researchers at UConn Health show that melatonin...

Scientists Discovers Why We Need Sleep

September 22, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Prolonged sleep deprivation can lead to severe health problems in humans and other animals. But why is sleep so vital to our health? A UCLA-led team of scientists has answered this...

Irregular Sleep may Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Events

March 3, 2020
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Boston, MA — The body’s clock keeps metabolism, blood pressure and heart rate running on schedule. But when an irregular sleep pattern disrupts this delicate ticking, what happens? A new study...

Beauty Sleep could be Real, Say Body Clock Biologists

January 16, 2020
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Manchester, UK — Biologists from The University of Manchester have explained for the first time why having a good night’s sleep really could prepare us for the rigours of the day ahead. The...

Can Good Sleep Patterns Offset Genetic Susceptibility to Heart Disease and Stroke?

December 19, 2019
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New Orleans, LA — Getting a good night’s sleep could be beneficial for long-term health. A pioneering new study led by Dr. Lu Qi, director of the Tulane University Obesity Research Center, found...

Lack of Sleep May Explain Why Poor People Get More Heart Disease

November 22, 2019
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Sophia Antipolis, France — Insufficient sleep is one reason why disadvantaged groups have more heart disease. That’s the finding of a study published today in Cardiovascular Research, a journal...

Study Links Gene to Sleep Problems in Autism

April 29, 2019
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Spokane, WA — Up to 80 percent of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience sleep problems. The source of these problems has been as much of a mystery as the exact causes of ASD, which...

General Anesthesia Hijacks Sleep Circuitry to Knock You Out

April 23, 2019
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Durham, NC — The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years ago was a medical miracle, enabling millions of patients to undergo invasive, life-saving surgeries without pain. Yet despite decades of research,...

Research Identifies Genetic Causes of Poor Sleep

April 8, 2019
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Exeter, UK — The international collaboration, led by the University of Exeter and published in Nature Communications, has found 47 links between our genetic code and the quality, quantity and timing...

New Brain Research Challenges Our Understanding of Sleep

March 26, 2019
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Aarhus C, Denmark — An international study headed by researchers from Aarhus University has for the first time uncovered the large-scale brain patterns and networks which control sleep, providing knowledge...

Learning New Vocabulary During Deep Sleep

February 2, 2019
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Bern, Switzerland — Sleeping time is sometimes considered unproductive time. This raises the question whether the time spent asleep could be used more productively – e.g. for learning a new language?...

Unraveling Link Between Obesity and Sleep

December 17, 2018
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Cologne, Germany — One night of sleep loss can increase the desirability of junk foods, finds a study of healthy weight young men published in JNeurosci. Building on insights from behavioural economics...

Insufficient Sleep in Children Associated with Poor Diet, Obesity and More Screen Time, Study Suggests

November 20, 2018
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Darien, IL – A new study conducted among more than 177,000 students suggests that insufficient sleep duration is associated with an unhealthy lifestyle profile among children and adolescents. Results...

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