Does It Matter What Time I Go to Bed?
Researchers suggest that sleep preferences aren't a matter a choice, but rather primarily influenced by genetics and chronotypes.
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The Awake Ape: Why People Sleep Less Than Their Primate Relatives
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
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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.
Sleeping Less Than 7 Hours Linked to Snacking More
It turns out that the favored non-meal food categories are the same among adults regardless of sleep habits, but those getting less sleep tend to eat more snack calories in a day overall.
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Short Naps Don’t Relieve Sleep Deprivation
The findings underscore the importance of prioritizing sleep and that naps—even if they include SWS—cannot replace a full night of sleep.
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Sleep Patterns in Infants, Objectively Measured, Diverge by Race & Ethnicity
Shorter nighttime sleep in Asian infants can’t be explained by socioeconomic factors alone.
Read MoreSleepy 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.
Read MoreA Sleep Study’s Eye-Opening Findings
A new MIT study looks at how the length of time a person sleeps may impact their sense of well-being.
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What Happens to Well-Being When a Person Doesn’t Sleep Enough for 8 Consecutive Nights?
Participants recorded their mental and physical behaviors in a diary for eight consecutive days, allowing researchers to review how sleep loss causes wear and tear on the body.
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Extra Sleep Didn’t Improve Work Productivity in Study of Low-Income Workers in India
Further work could attempt to change the sleeping circumstances of low-income workers to see if better sleep quality, not just increased sleep quantity, makes a difference.
Read MoreSufficient Sleep Needed to Mitigate Risks of Mood Dysregulation in Teens
Teens were allocated to one of three sleep “doses” for five consecutive nights with two baseline and two “recovery” nights.
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Sleep Characteristics Predict Cannabis Use, Binge Drinking in Teens & Young Adults
“Sleep is modifiable behavior, and perhaps easier to modify than going after substance use directly.”
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Fitbit User Data Shows Slight Increase in Sleep Duration During Pandemic
Results 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.
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Don’t Count on Caffeine to Fight Sleep Deprivation
“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.”
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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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