Is It Idiopathic Hypersomnia or Narcolepsy? Brain Imaging May Hold Answers
Brain imaging research identifies differences in brain structure and activity that could help in understanding and distinguishing IH.
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MRI Helps Unravel Mysteries of Sleep
The only catch was that it wasn't easy to perform brain MRIs on participants while they were sleeping. The machines are very noisy.
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Considering Adding a CBCT Device to Your Dental Practice?
Cone beam computed tomography is garnering interest among dental sleep medicine practitioners. Here’s what you need to know about this imaging capability.
Understanding How Activity Brain’s Reward System Fluctuates Throughout the Day Could Have Implications for Sleep Disturbances
Activation of a reward-processing brain region peaks in the morning and evening and dips at 2 pm,...
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FDA Clears First Neonatal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Device
An MRI machine designed specifically for infants in the ICU has gotten the green light from the...
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New Insights Into Memory Replays That Occur In Rats During Sleep and Wake
When a rat runs a maze and finds a reward, the first thing he does is pause to enjoy it,...
Read MoreContagious Yawning May Not Be Linked to Empathy
While previous studies have suggested a connection between contagious yawning and empathy, research from the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation finds that contagious yawning may decrease with age and is not strongly related...
Read MoreUS Army Awards $1.5 Million for Sleep Research
The Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research (AiC: Health Research), of Virginia Tech’s National Capital Region, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative research and development agreement from the US Army for neuroimaging studies of huma
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Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
Exploring the relationship between epilepsy and sleep.
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Can Dreaming Unfreeze Parkinson's Disease?
A study of patients with both Parkinson’s disease and REM sleep behavior disorder demonstrated that the movements seen during an episode of acting out a dream may actually appear to be relatively normal.
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New Perspectives on Sleep
The role of diagnostic imaging in sleep research.
Read MoreWhen Too Little Sleep Is a Good Thing
Examining the positive effects of sleep deprivation leads to new information about how we sleep.
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