How Saliva Testing Helped Me Rethink My Circadian Rhythm
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Category: Circadian & Sleep Biomarkers
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AAAS Fellowship Awarded to Scientist for Advances in Circadian Research
The fellowship acknowledges his research on circadian rhythms, including the effects of blue light on sleep cycles and the implications of circadian misalignment on metabolism and inflammation.
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3 Sleep Scientists Make 2023 Nobel Prize Predictions List
Clarivate has named three sleep scientists as 2023 Citation Laureates, researchers whose work is deemed to be of Nobel class.
Clinical Implications of the Odds Ratio Product for Sleep Analysis
A recent publication delves into the Odds Ratio Product, a continuous metric of sleep depth, and its potential implications for clinical practice.
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Experts Declare Nighttime LED Use a Health Hazard Due to Blue-Rich Light
A new consensus survey supports the widespread introduction of circadian lighting that adjusts light intensity and blue content across day and night.
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Cerebra Offers Sleep Depth Metric ORP to Researchers Via New API
Cerebra is making its patented Odds-Ratio-Product technology, a continuous metric of sleep depth, available to qualified researchers for free through its newly launched MY Sleep Scoring application programming interface.
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Sleep-Worn Headband Can Be Used to Detect Early Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers make progress in developing a digital biomarker that detects early signs of Alzheimer’s disease in brain wave patterns using a wearable headband at night.
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Molecular Pathway that Controls Sleep Rhythm ID’d
Researchers from Japan have found new details about the molecular processes that govern sleep/wake rhythms in mice.
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Women Appear To Be More Resilient to Body Clock Disruptions Than Men—New Research
A new study explores how women appear to possess a stronger internal rhythm, potentially providing them with a degree of protection against the detrimental effects of circadian misalignment.
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Machine-Learning Method Predicts Body Clock for Better Sleep
The new machine-learning method could help us gauge the time of our internal body clock, helping us decide when and how long to sleep.
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Salimetrics Introduces Stress Assessment Option for HST
While melatonin testing was central to the initial circadian phase assessment, Salimetrics says it worked quickly to add the stress component as an optional add-on.
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Cluster Headache and Migraine Strongly Linked to Circadian System
The findings suggest that both of these headache disorders are “highly circadian” at multiple levels, especially cluster headache.
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How Sleep Stages Change Season to Season
Surprisingly, human sleep architecture varies substantially across seasons in an adult population living in an urban environment.
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Can a Blood Test Diagnose Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children? Exciting Research Emerges from the University of Missouri
Researchers collected cellular samples from children who were diagnosed with OSA through PSG, and from asymptomatic healthy children without OSA.
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Could Sleep EEG Data Be a Biomarker for Genetic Condition 22q11.2DS?
The properties and coordination of sleep EEG alterations can be used as biomarkers for psychiatric dysfunction in conditions like 22q11.2DS.
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Salimetrics: A Kit That Can Measure Salivary Melatonin Levels Over Time
Salimetrics launched a Circadian Phase Assessment Kit to measure dim light melatonin onset using saliva to keep tabs on a patient’s circadian phase with sample collection in the convenience of their own home or under the supervision of a clinician.
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New Approach to Describing Sleep Architecture May Help Direct Therapy for Sleep Disorders
Magdy Younes and associates have revealed new insights into clinical symptoms of sleep disorders found in sleep architecture.
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Deep Sleep Holds Clues to Risk Propensity of Sleeper
The fewer slow waves an individual has over their right prefrontal cortex during deep sleep, the greater their propensity for risk.
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