How Sleep Stages Change Season to Season
Surprisingly, human sleep architecture varies substantially across seasons in an adult population living in an urban environment.
Category: Circadian & Sleep Biomarkers
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Sleep & Alzheimer’s Disease: New Circadian Link Identified
The brain’s ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease is tied to our circadian cycle, according to new research.
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Blood Test Can Reveal Circadian Rhythms, Study Finds
A single blood draw can be used to determine someone’s internal circadian clock, information that’s useful for everything from treating cancer to getting better sleep, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Single Blood Draw Could Assess Individual Circadian Rhythm Timing in the Future
Researchers used a machine learning algorithm to determine which collection of metabolites were associated with the circadian clock.
Read MoreAre You a Night Owl or Morning Lark? One May Protect You From Depression, Study Says
Morning larks, people who wake up early, tend to be happier than night owls, according to new research.
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Chronobiology: 15 French Volunteers Leave Cave After 40 Days Without Daylight
The Deep Time project investigated how a lack of external contact and daylight would affect sense of time.
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Tuning the Circadian Clock May be Key to Developing Future Treatments
A new University of California, Irvine-led article reviews how the clock controls various aspects of homeostasis, and how organs coordinate their function over the course of a day.
Read More‘Junk DNA’ Plays Role in Regulating Circadian Rhythms, Study Finds
New research reveals the discovery of a new cog in the circadian clock, a genome-wide regulatory layer made up of small chains of non-coding nucleotides known as micro RNAS.
Read MorePoor Sleep, Eating at Night Drive Cardiometabolic Risks in Circadian Misalignment
Healio: Night-shift workers and other adults who sleep primarily during the day are at increased risk for diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Read MoreHow Stress and the Circadian Clock Affect Sleep
Researchers have found a new neural pathway that links the circadian clock, stress, and wakefulness in mammals.
Read MoreBiological Clock and Extra Gene Pairs Control Important Plant Functions
The biological clock of a popular food crop controls close to three-quarters of its genes, according to research from Dartmouth College.
Read MoreScientists Discover How a Common Mutation Leads to ‘Night Owl’ Sleep Disorder
A new study shows how a genetic mutation throws off the timing of the biological clock, causing delayed sleep phase disorder.
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Mayo Clinic Can Test Your Patients’ Orexin Levels
Orexin testing can detect type 1 narcolepsy in conjunction with sleep studies like MSLT. Mayo Clinic has developed a widely available test.
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A Measurement That Might Predict the Tonsillectomy Patients with OSA Who Need Postoperative Oxygen
Researchers sought to determine whether Masimo ORi could serve as a useful predictor of the need for postoperative oxygen therapy.
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Coronavirus: New App Analyzes How Social Distancing Affects Biological Clocks
A free app built by University of Michigan researchers will help users understand their own sleep rhythms, shedding light on how their biological clock is responding to lockdowns, and give tips about how to shift their potentially disrupted rhythms.
Read MoreUrinary Melatonin May Predict Therapeutic Response to Fluoxetine
Urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (aMT6s) excretion can act as a biomarker for predicting a positive therapeutic response to fluoxetine, according to results published in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. Previous...
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Blood Leukocytes Mirror Insufficient Sleep
Prior studies have indicated that prolonged insufficient sleep and poor sleep quality are...
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