Periodically Catching Up on Sleep Can Improve Gait Control
The less sleep students got, the less control they had when walking during a treadmill test.
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LatestSleepy Athletes Risk Botched Performance
The study intended to identify the subjective sleep need of elite athletes and compare it with an objective measure of their habitual sleep duration.
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LatestWhen Too Little Sleep Is a Good Thing
Examining the positive effects of sleep deprivation leads to new information about how we sleep.
Students Working or Studying from Home Sleep Later But Not Longer
The team found that students learning remotely in the summer 2020 session went to bed an average of 30 minutes later than pre-pandemic students.
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Global Sleep Duration Has Significantly Increased Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Data was obtained from regular users of the Sleep Cycle before and after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020.
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NIH Grant Awarded for Study on Stress, Inflammatory Response, & Sleep Loss
The project’s premise relates to the worldwide increases in obesity that have led to a higher incidence of obstructive sleep apnea.
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Duke Lemur Center Works to Understand Hibernation
Our closest hibernating relative has gone into true, deep hibernation in captivity for the first time at the Duke Lemur Center.
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Sleep Restriction Impacts Children’s Positive Emotions More Than Negative Ones
Children with greater pre-existing anxiety symptoms showed the most dramatic alterations in emotional responding after sleep restriction.
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Coffee Counteracts Cognitive Impacts of Sleep Loss—But Only For a Few Days
“This study is among the first to examine whether this effect can be translated into a real-world situation.”
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Common Pesticides Reduce Sleep Quantity in Insects
As 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.
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Workaholism Linked to Lower Sleep Quality
Researchers explore the link between work addiction risk and health-related outcomes using the framework of Job Demand Control Model.
Read MoreSleep Disruption & Depression: Depressive Symptoms Arise in Adolescent, But Not Adult, Mice with Repeated Sleep Delays
Their findings are particularly relevant in the context of a pandemic, when adolescents’ mental health is already under strain.
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Sleep Loss Hijacks Brain’s Ability to Process Threat Memories
In a study’s conditioning paradigm, subjects were presented with three colors, two of which were paired with a mild electric shock.
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Increasing Sleep Time After Trauma Could Ease Ill Effects
The finding holds particular promise for populations that are routinely exposed to trauma, such as military personnel and first responders.
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Sleep Helps Suppress Intrusive Thoughts
Sleep-deprived participants experienced an increase in unwanted thoughts of nearly 50% compared to those who had a good night’s sleep.
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Which Insomnia Patients Might Be at Increased Risk of Dementia?
A new study of middle-aged adults reinforces the need to objectively measure the sleep of adults who complain of insomnia.
Read MoreBedtime Media Use Linked to Less Sleep in Children Who Struggle to Self-Regulate Behavior
A study finds frequent media use before bed in children who struggle to self-regulate predicted later bedtimes and less sleep.
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Why Little Mammals Sleep Longer
Why does the mouse sleep five times longer than the elephant? Scientist have developed quantitative models to explain sleep time differences.
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