• Helping babies to sleep more
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers have trained new mothers in skills that help newborns sleep more during the night. New research shows that second children in these families also slept longer.
  • Light during sleep in older adults linked to obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure
    Wednesday, June 22, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    In a sample of older men and women ages 63 to 84, those who were exposed to any amount of light while sleeping at night were significantly more likely to be obese, and have high blood pressure and diabetes compared to adults who were not...
  • Age 40 is when busy Americans get the least sleep
    Tuesday, June 14, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A graph of how long Americans sleep forms a U-shaped pattern across our lives, with age 40 being the low point and hours of sleep starting to creep back up about age 50, investigators report.
  • Lessons on how to sleep: What we can learn from worms
    Wednesday, June 8, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Caenorhabditis elegans is a worm that has been used for decades as a model organism. Researchers have found that a specific neuron, called ALA, and the amount of calcium it contains are essential for the homeostatic regulation of sleep...
  • Adults sleep better together than they do alone
    Monday, June 6, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new study finds a relationship between bed sharing, sleep and mental health. Adults who share a bed with a partner or spouse sleep better than those who sleep alone, according to a new study.
  • Screen time, alcohol, and poor sleep for girls: How the pandemic has impacted teens in Australia
    Monday, June 6, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new study finds that Australian teens had overall improvements in sleep over the two years and some improvements in dietary choices during lockdown, but these were offset by increases in already concerning levels of screen time and...
  • Tracking sleep with a self-powering smart pillow
    Friday, June 3, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    The human body needs sleep as much as it needs food and water. Yet many people fail to get enough, causing both mind and body to suffer. People who struggle for shut-eye could benefit from monitoring their sleep, but they have limited...
  • How sleep builds relational memory
    Tuesday, May 31, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers describe biological mechanism that allows sleep to build relational memories -- associations between unrelated items.
  • Climate change likely to reduce the amount of sleep that people get per year
    Friday, May 20, 2022 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Most research looking at the impact of climate change on human life has focused on how extreme weather events affect economic and societal health outcomes on a broad scale. Yet climate change may also have a strong influence on...
  • Insomnia in midlife may manifest as cognitive problems in retirement age
    Friday, May 20, 2022 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    According to a new study, long-term insomnia symptoms can pose a risk of poorer cognitive functioning later in life. This is another reason why insomnia should be treated as early as possible.
  • Concussion symptoms in children may have multiple underlying causes
    Tuesday, May 17, 2022 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Different types of brain damage caused by a concussion may lead to similar symptoms in children, according to new research. A new way of studying concussions could help develop future treatments.
  • How sleep helps to process emotions
    Friday, May 13, 2022 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have identified how the brain triages emotions during dream sleep to consolidate the storage of positive emotions while dampening the consolidation of negative ones. The work expands the importance of sleep in mental health...
  • Mental illness plays havoc with the mind as well as the heart
    Tuesday, May 3, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    We need to pay more attention to the physical impacts of mental illness. It could not only be messing with your mind, but also your heart, say scientists.
  • Acute sleep loss may alter the way we see others
    Tuesday, May 3, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new study shows that young adults when sleep-deprived evaluate angry faces as less trustworthy and healthy-looking. Furthermore, neutral and fearful faces appear less attractive following sleep loss.
  • Molecular basis of deep sleep pinpointed, suggests avenues for novel treatments
    Friday, April 29, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Scientists pinpoint the molecular epicenter of deep-sleep regulation. The findings, based on research in mice, identify a gene that makes a protein that regulates delta waves -- electrical signals between neurons that occur during the...
  • New sleep molecule discovered: 'It shows just how complex the machinery of sleep is'
    Friday, April 29, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers presents a new study demonstrating that a small molecule in brain cells affects the level of hypocretin, which is responsible for making us feel awake during the day and tired at night. People with a genetic variation of this...
  • Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers
    Thursday, April 28, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much little sleep associated with poorer cognitive performance and mental health, say researchers.
  • Risky driving behaviors increase as common sleep disorder worsens
    Wednesday, April 20, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Up to half of older adults may have sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing and sleep are briefly interrupted many times a night. A new study shows that this chronic tiredness can have serious implications for road safety.
  • Automated cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia delivered over the internet shown to be highly effective in Black women
    Wednesday, April 20, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Black women are disproportionately affected by poor sleep, which is associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes such as cardiovascular disease, depression and worse quality of life. The gold standard treatment for insomnia is...
  • Fetal exposure to meds may affect infants' brain development
    Wednesday, April 20, 2022 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study demonstrates that in utero exposure to mother's antiepileptic or antidepressant medication may affect development of the newborn brain networks. In the study, novel mathematical methods were developed to allow future research...
  • Drug reduced frequency of breathing pauses in sleep apnea
    Thursday, April 14, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new study has paved the way for the first drug treatment for sleep apnea. Compared to before receiving the treatment, breathing pauses decreased with on average more than 20 per hour for patients given the drug.
  • Enhancing deep sleep
    Friday, April 8, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers have developed a wearable device that plays specific sounds to enhance deep sleep. The first clinical study has now shown that the device is effective, but not at the same level of effectiveness for everyone.
  • Study finds persistent racial and ethnic disparities in sleep duration
    Thursday, April 7, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Using data collected by the National Health Interview Survey from 2004 to 2018, researchers found that the proportion of people who reported sleeping fewer than seven hours per day increased significantly over the 15-year period, and it...
  • Loss of neurons, not lack of sleep, makes Alzheimer’s patients drowsy
    Monday, April 4, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    The lethargy that many Alzheimer's patients experience is caused not by a lack of sleep, but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake, according to a study that also confirms the tau protein is behind that...
  • Classification of 16 adult sleep patterns based on large-scale sleep analysis
    Thursday, March 31, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A research group found that the human sleep patterns could be classified into 16 types by combining ACCEL, their original machine learning algorithm for sleep-wake classification, the dimension reduction method and the clustering method....
  • Lack of sleep increases unhealthy abdominal fat, study finds
    Monday, March 28, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    New research shows that lack of sufficient sleep combined with free access to food increases calorie consumption and consequently fat accumulation, especially unhealthy fat inside the belly.
  • Clock gene mutation found to contribute to the development of autism
    Thursday, March 24, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers found that the disruption of a circadian clock gene may be involved in the development of autism spectrum disorder.
  • Our sleep shows how risk-seeking we are
    Tuesday, March 22, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Each person has their own individual sleep profile which can be identified by the electrical brain activity during sleep. Researchers have now demonstrated that the brain waves during periods of deep sleep in a specific area of the brain...
  • Working shifts may delay the onset of menopause
    Tuesday, March 22, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    It's no secret that working nontraditional shifts can wreak havoc on lifestyle and sleep habits. Shift work has also been known to have a negative effect on workers' health. A new study suggests it also may delay the onset of natural...
  • Lighting the way to healthier daily rhythms
    Thursday, March 17, 2022 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    A new report addresses the issue of exactly how bright lighting should be during the day and in the evening to support healthy body rhythms, restful sleep, and daytime alertness.
  • When it comes to sleep, it’s quality over quantity
    Tuesday, March 15, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Some people are gifted with genes that pack the benefits of slumber into an efficient time window, keeping them peppy on only four or six hours of sleep a night. In addition, the scientists said, these 'elite sleepers' show psychological...
  • Close the blinds during sleep to protect your health
    Monday, March 14, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during sleep and increases your insulin resistance the following morning, reports a new...
  • Sleep apnea accelerates aging, but treatment may reverse it
    Wednesday, March 9, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects 22 million people in the U.S. and is linked to a higher risk of hypertension, heart attacks, stroke, diabetes and many other chronic conditions. But now researchers have found that untreated OSA also...
  • Science one step closer to turning off seizures, sleep disturbances linked to intellectual disability
    Tuesday, February 22, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    UNLV-led research team identifies key brain protein to target for new customized drug therapies treating adverse symptoms of developmental disorder subtypes.
  • Children with insomnia likely to continue to suffer as adults, long-term study finds
    Thursday, February 17, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Children with insomnia symptoms are likely to persist with them as young adults and are significantly more likely to develop an insomnia disorder in early adulthood compared to children who do not have difficulty sleeping, according to...
  • Scientists discover how our circadian rhythm can be both strong and flexible
    Thursday, February 17, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    The combination of mathematical modeling and experiments identifies the difference in molecular clockworks of the master and slave clock neurons in Drosophila. This solves the long-standing mystery of the molecular mechanisms underlying...
  • Clearance of protein linked to Alzheimer's controlled by circadian cycle
    Thursday, February 10, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    The brain's ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer's disease is tied to our circadian cycle, according to new research. The research underscores the importance of healthy sleep habits in preventing the protein...
  • Illuminating real-time brain dynamics of neuropeptides with a fluorescent biosensor
    Thursday, February 10, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Neuropeptides play fundamental roles in modulating cellular and circuit functions within the brain. One such signaling molecule -- orexin -- regulates arousal and wakefulness, and its failure can lead to constant daytime sleepiness...
  • Is bedtime media use detrimental for sleep?
    Wednesday, February 9, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    New research has examined how sleep might be impacted by media use -- such as watching movies, television, or short videos; browsing the Internet; or listening to music -- before bed.
  • Poor sleep can triple risk for heart disease
    Monday, February 7, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Individual aspects of poor sleep can be detrimental to heart health. But if you combine them, the risk of heart disease can increase by as much as 141 percent.
  • Mothers' sleep apnea may increase risk of autism-like changes in their male offspring
    Thursday, February 3, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Sleep apnea in pregnancy may increase the risk for brain and behavioral changes associated with autism, especially in males, according to a study in rats.
  • Poor sleep and stress exacerbate each other among nurses who work night shift, study finds
    Thursday, February 3, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Nurses who work the night shift report more sleep disturbances and are more likely to suffer from psychological and physical health symptoms including PTSD, insomnia and inflammation, a recent study found.
  • Finding structure in the brain’s static
    Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers found that a monkey's state of attentiveness may be encoded in the shapes and speeds of slow electrical waves that course over the surface of the brain. Like a surfer that avoids smooth water and favors more active waves, the...
  • Another pandemic challenge for nurses: Sleep problems
    Thursday, January 27, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    More than half of nurses had difficulty sleeping during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic -- and getting less sleep increased their odds of experiencing anxiety and depression, according to a new study.
  • Even dim light before bedtime may disrupt a preschooler’s sleep
    Thursday, January 27, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new study of preschoolers finds that exposure to even very low intensities of light before bedtime can sharply reduce production of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, interfering with sleep. It suggests that young children are...
  • Breathing: The master clock of the sleeping brain
    Monday, January 24, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain during sleep and quiet.
  • Changes in sleep and biological rhythms from late pregnancy to postpartum linked to depression and anxiety
    Tuesday, January 18, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers recruited 100 women, 73 of whom they followed from the start of the third trimester to three months postpartum. They analyzed subjective and objective measures of sleep, biological rhythms, melatonin levels, and light...
  • Removing brain cells linked to wakefulness and addiction may lessen symptoms of opioid withdrawal
    Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A study in mice shows that removing chemical messengers in the brain that are involved in both wakefulness and addiction may make withdrawal from opioids easier and help prevent relapse.
  • Study may help clinicians use sleep brain wave patterns to diagnose dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment
    Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers have characterized how spindle detection parameter settings influence the association between spindles and cognition, and they identified parameters that best correlate with cognitive performance.
  • Remembering faces and names can be improved during sleep
    Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    New research has documented the effect reactivating memory during sleep has on face-name learning. The researchers found that people's name recall improved significantly when memories of newly learned face-name associations were...
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