The Awake Ape: Why People Sleep Less Than Their Primate Relatives
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
Going 24 hours without sleep impacted study participants’ mood but did not change their performance on tests evaluating their ability to process emotional words and images.
Examining the positive effects of sleep deprivation leads to new information about how we sleep.
Teens were allocated to one of three sleep “doses” for five consecutive nights with two baseline and two “recovery” nights.
Read More“Sleep is modifiable behavior, and perhaps easier to modify than going after substance use directly.”
Read MoreResults show that mean sleep duration increased in nearly all groups by 5 to 11 minutes, compared with a mean decrease of 5 to 8 minutes seen over the same period in 2019.
Read More“Caffeine may improve the ability to stay awake and attend to a task, but it doesn’t do much to prevent the sort of procedural errors that can cause things like medical mistakes and car accidents.”
Read MoreThe team found that students learning remotely in the summer 2020 session went to bed an average of 30 minutes later than pre-pandemic students.
Read MoreData was obtained from regular users of the Sleep Cycle before and after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020.
Read MoreThe project’s premise relates to the worldwide increases in obesity that have led to a higher incidence of obstructive sleep apnea.
Read MoreOur closest hibernating relative has gone into true, deep hibernation in captivity for the first time at the Duke Lemur Center.
Read MoreChildren with greater pre-existing anxiety symptoms showed the most dramatic alterations in emotional responding after sleep restriction.
Read More“This study is among the first to examine whether this effect can be translated into a real-world situation.”
Read MoreAs well as finding that agricultural concentrations of neonicotinoids ruined the flies’ ability to remember, the researchers also saw changes in the clock in the fly brain.
Read MoreResearchers explore the link between work addiction risk and health-related outcomes using the framework of Job Demand Control Model.
Read MoreTheir findings are particularly relevant in the context of a pandemic, when adolescents’ mental health is already under strain.
Read MoreIn a study’s conditioning paradigm, subjects were presented with three colors, two of which were paired with a mild electric shock.
Read MoreThe finding holds particular promise for populations that are routinely exposed to trauma, such as military personnel and first responders.
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