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  • The science of siestas: New research reveals the genetic basis for daytime napping
    Wednesday, February 10, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers identified 123 regions in the human genome that are associated with daytime napping and three distinct mechanisms that promote napping. Many napping-related genes also regulate other aspects of sleep.
  • Sleep keeps teens on track for good mental health
    Wednesday, February 10, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    As families settle back into a new school year, sleep experts are reminding parents about the importance of teenagers getting enough sleep, cautioning them that insufficient sleep can negatively affect their mental health.
  • Afternoon napping linked to better mental agility
    Monday, January 25, 2021 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Taking a regular afternoon nap may be linked to better mental agility, suggests new research.
  • Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion
    Friday, January 22, 2021 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study suggests that a lot of people might be going through life with symptoms that resemble concussion - a finding supporting researchers' argument that athletes recovering from a brain injury should be assessed and treated on a...
  • MRI helps unravel the mysteries of sleep
    Friday, January 22, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Scientists are investigating brain activity during sleep with the help of MRI scans. It turns out our brains are much more active than we thought.
  • Deep sleep takes out the trash
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    By examining fruit flies' brain activity and behavior, the researchers found that deep sleep has an ancient, restorative power to clear waste from the brain. This waste potentially includes toxic proteins that may lead to...
  • An unexpected, and novel, target for prostate cancer: Our biological clock
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers find that CRY-1, a regulator of circadian rhythms, promotes tumor progression by altering DNA repair.
  • How the brain paralyzes you while you sleep
    Thursday, January 14, 2021 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have discovered a group of neurons in the mouse brainstem that suppress unwanted movement during rapid eye movement sleep.
  • Mothers, but not fathers, with multiple children report more fragmented sleep
    Tuesday, January 12, 2021 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Mothers with multiple children report more fragmented sleep than mothers of a single child, but the number of children in a family doesn't seem to affect the quality of sleep for fathers, according to a new study.
  • Fragmented sleep patterns can predict vulnerability to chronic stress
    Tuesday, January 12, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    New research used an animal model to demonstrate how abnormal sleep architecture can be a predictor of stress vulnerability. These important findings have the potential to inform the development of sleep tests that can help identify who...
  • Which came first, sleep or the brain?
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    In work that could help unravel the origin of sleep, an international team of researchers has shown that tiny, water-dwelling hydras not only show signs of a sleep-like state despite lacking central nervous systems but also respond to...
  • General anesthesia and normal sleep affect brain in an amazingly similar way as consciousness fades
    Tuesday, December 29, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    What happens in the brain when our conscious awareness fades during general anesthesia and normal sleep? Scientists studied this question with novel experimental designs and functional brain imaging. They succeeded in separating the...
  • Individuals with high ADHD-traits are more vulnerable to insomnia
    Friday, December 18, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Individuals with high ADHD-traits that do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis are less able to perform tasks involving attentional regulation or emotional control after a sleepless night than individuals with low ADHD-traits, a new...
  • New guideline supports behavioral, psychological treatments for insomnia
    Wednesday, December 16, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new clinical practice guideline establishing recommendations for the use of behavioral and psychological treatments for chronic insomnia disorder in adults has been published.
  • Three pillars of mental health: Good sleep, exercise, raw fruits and veggies
    Wednesday, December 16, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Getting good quality sleep, exercising, and eating more raw fruits and vegetables predicts better mental health and well-being in young adults, a study has found.
  • Mystery solved with math: Cytoplasmic traffic jam disrupts sleep-wake cycles
    Monday, December 14, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Mathematicians have identified the principle of how aging and diseases like dementia and obesity cause sleep disorders. A combination of mathematical modelling and experiments demonstrated that the cytoplasmic congestion caused by aging,...
  • Young people who go to bed later drink and smoke more due to their impulsivity
    Monday, December 14, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Young people who prefer to stay up late are more impulsive than their peers who go to bed earlier, which makes them more likely to drink alcohol and smoke.
  • Poor sleep can lead to depression in adolescents
    Monday, December 7, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Chronic sleep disruption during adolescence can lead to depression in both males and females and alters stress reactivity in females, according to a new study. Their findings are particularly relevant in the context of a pandemic when...
  • Parents shouldn't worry about their baby's inconsistent sleep patterns
    Wednesday, December 2, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    New parents often expect their baby to start sleeping through the night around the time they reach six months of age. But according to a new study parents should view sleep consolidation as a process, instead of a milestone to be...
  • Getting a grip on better health
    Monday, November 30, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Medical researchers in South Australia assessed more than 600 men aged over 40 to 88 years to measure the link between sleep apnea and muscle mass with grip strength.
  • Researchers find how stress and the circadian clock affect sleep
    Monday, November 30, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have found a new neural pathway that links the circadian clock, stress, and wakefulness in mammals. They identified a neuron that becomes excessively active when the mammal is under stress, which could trigger insomnia and...
  • Gut microbes: a key to normal sleep
    Monday, November 30, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers used a cocktail of antibiotics to deplete gut microbes in mice. They found that metabolites in the gut differed in these mice compared with controls. In particular, metabolic pathways involved in making important...
  • Web searches for insomnia surged at height of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders
    Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    A study found a significant increase in the number of online search queries for 'insomnia' between April and May 2020, when governments across the U.S. and around the world implemented stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19...
  • Discrimination increases against Asian and Asian American population, affecting health
    Monday, November 2, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Reports of racial discrimination against Asians and Asian-Americans have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, coinciding with an increase in reported negative health symptoms, according to researchers.
  • Sleep-deprived mice find cocaine more rewarding
    Monday, November 2, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Sleep deprivation may pave the way to cocaine addiction. Too-little sleep can increase the rewarding properties of cocaine, according to new research.
  • Cut chores and kill chill time: New advice to boost children's academic achievement
    Thursday, October 29, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Determining a child's best daily balance of sleep, activity and relaxation can be a challenge, but if you're hoping to improve their academic results, then it's time to cut back on chores and chill time, according to new research.
  • Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to 'night owl' sleep disorder
    Tuesday, October 27, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    People with delayed sleep phase disorder are unable to fall asleep until late at night (often after 2 a.m.) and have difficulty getting up in the morning. In 2017, scientists discovered a surprisingly common mutation that causes this...
  • Increasing sleep time after trauma could ease ill effects
    Thursday, October 22, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Increasing the amount of time spent asleep immediately after a traumatic experience may ease any negative consequences, suggests a new study conducted by researchers. The study helps build a case for use of sleep therapeutics following...
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy reduces insomnia symptoms among young drinkers
    Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    More than half of young adults at risk for alcohol-related harm report symptoms of insomnia. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the first-line treatments for insomnia, but it's never been tested on young adults who are actively...
  • Blue-light glasses improve sleep and workday productivity, study finds
    Thursday, October 15, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    During the pandemic, the amount of screen time for many people working and learning from home as well as binge-watching TV has sharply increased. New research finds that wearing blue-light glasses just before sleeping can lead to a...
  • Therapy plus medication better than medication alone in bipolar disorder
    Wednesday, October 14, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A review of 39 randomized clinical trials has found that combining the use medication with psychoeducational therapy is more effective at preventing a recurrence of illness in people with bipolar disorder than medication alone.
  • Cortex-wide variation of neuronal cellular energy levels depending on the sleep-wake states
    Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    The brain is assumed to exert homeostatic functions to always keep the cellular energy status constant, this has not been proven. Researchers discovered that cortical neuronal intracellular concentrations of ATP, the major cellular...
  • 'I'll sleep when I'm dead': The sleep-deprived masculinity stereotype
    Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    In the United States, the average American sleeps less than the minimum seven hours of sleep per night recommended by the Center for Disease Control, and nearly half of Americans report negative consequences from insufficient sleep. This...
  • Obstructive sleep apnea risk varies in patients with different types of epilepsy
    Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    People with generalized epilepsy who have seizures arising from both sides of the brain simultaneously, have a higher risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) compared to patients who have focal epilepsy where seizures emanate from one area...
  • Identical signs of brain damage in sleep apnea and Alzheimer's
    Monday, September 28, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    New research shows damage in the brain starts in the same place and spreads in the same way in sleep apnea, as in Alzheimer's disease. The study is the first to find Alzheimer's-like amyloid plaques in the brains of people with...
  • Loneliness levels high during COVID-19 lockdown
    Thursday, September 24, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    During the initial phase of COVID-19 lockdown, rates of loneliness among people in the UK were high and were associated with a number of social and health factors, according to a new study.
  • Twinkling, star-shaped brain cells may hold the key to why, how we sleep
    Thursday, September 24, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new study suggests that star-shaped brain cells known as astrocytes could be as important to the regulation of sleep as neurons. The study builds new momentum toward ultimately solving the mystery of why we sleep and how sleep works in...
  • Gut microbiome plays important role in sleep regulation
    Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects more than one billion people worldwide. Evidence suggests OSA can alter the gut microbiome (GM) and may promote OSA-associated co-morbidities, including diabetes, hypertension and cognitive problems....
  • Weighted blankets can decrease insomnia severity
    Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Weighted blankets are a safe and effective intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to researchers who found that insomnia patients with psychiatric disorders experienced reduced insomnia severity, improved sleep and less...
  • The hypnotic potential of thalidomide
    Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers demonstrate that the hypnotic and teratogenic effects of thalidomide are separable.
  • Insomnia treatment offers relief
    Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Insomnia causing sleepless nights, daytime fatigue and poor health outcomes is a cycle worth busting, experts say, with depression, anxiety and stress a common co-occurrence. A study of more than 450 insomnia patients in Australia has...
  • Early birds vs night owls: For diabetics, an early bedtime is best
    Monday, September 21, 2020 from Sleep Disorders News -- ScienceDaily
    Early to bed, early to rise ... while the old saying promises health, wealth and wisdom, new research confirms part of the adage holds true, as a world first study shows that people who go to bed early are more likely to be in better...
  • People react better to both negative and positive events with more sleep
    Tuesday, September 15, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    New research finds that after a night of shorter sleep, people react more emotionally to stressful events the next day -- and they don't find as much joy in the good things. This has important health implications: previous research shows...
  • How we sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer's disease begins
    Thursday, September 3, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Neuroscientists have found a way to estimate, with some degree of accuracy, a time frame for when Alzheimer's is most likely to strike in a person's lifetime, based on their baseline sleep patterns. Their findings suggest one defense...
  • Links among poor sleep, high blood pressure, gut microbiome discovered
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Researchers have found associations among disrupted sleep, elevated blood pressure and changes in the gut microbiome. The research aimed to determine whether a 28-day period of disrupted sleep changed the microbiota in rats. The...
  • Circadian rhythms help guide waste from brain
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    New research details how the complex set of molecular and fluid dynamics that comprise the glymphatic system - the brain's unique process of waste removal - are synchronized with the master internal clock that regulates the sleep-wake...
  • Study finds that sleep restriction amplifies anger
    Friday, August 28, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    Feeling angry these days? New research suggests that a good night of sleep may be just what you need.
  • Atheists are more likely to sleep better than Catholics and Baptists, study finds
    Friday, August 28, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    A new study of sleep, religious affiliation, and perceptions of heaven found that atheists and agnostics are significantly more likely to be better sleepers than Catholics and Baptists.
  • Experiment contradicts assumptions about sleep loss and criminal interrogations
    Friday, August 28, 2020 from ScienceDaily: Insomnia News
    An experimental study suggests that sleep restriction may hinder information disclosure during criminal interviews, contradicting widespread assumptions about the effectiveness of sleep deprivation as an interrogation tool.
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