Topic: Sleep in the News

In a study looking at the daily lives of new parents, a team led by Penn State researchers found that in general, getting more physical activity and more sleep from day to day was linked with more personal well-being, a better couple relationship and more closeness with their baby.  But, it definitely effects new moms…
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Cringe-worthy mistakes and embarrassing blunders happen to everyone, but it turns out that insomniacs are more likely to relive them over and over.  Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience asked participants to relive their most shameful experiences of decades ago while making MRI scans of their brain activity. While good sleepers literally settled those…
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A new study of adults who were referred for evaluation of a suspected sleep disorder suggests that women tend to under-report snoring and underestimate its loudness. Results show that objectively measured snoring was found in 88% of the women (591 of 675), but only 72% reported that they snore (496 of 675). In contrast, objective snoring…
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Losing just 16 minutes of sleep could be the difference between a clear-headed day at the office or one filled with distractions. A new study finds shorting your sleep routine during the work-week greatly interferes with job performance. University of South Florida researchers found workers are more likely to have poor judgement and fall off-task the…
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There is a growing backlash against the back-and-forth time changes that happen every year in the U.S. and elsewhere, when we switch into Daylight Saving Time and then back out again.  The idea of staying in one “time” has become popular enough that several states in the U.S., including California, Washington, Florida, and North Carolina,…
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Despite years and years of education efforts, new research is finding that some people still haven’t gotten the message about the safest way to put an infant to bed.  But, the problem is coming from a caregiver you may not expect — babysitters. Babies who died during their sleep while being watched by someone other…
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 The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years ago was a medical miracle, enabling millions of patients to undergo life-saving surgeries without pain. Yet despite decades of research, scientists still don’t understand why general anesthesia works.  They’re starting to figure it out, though, that that understanding could lead to better medicine to help you sleep at…
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Researchers have identified a pattern of brain activity that reflects anger experienced during dreaming according to a new study carried out on healthy adults. The study helps to clarify the neural basis of dream emotions. Although emotions are obviously experienced during both the waking and dreaming state, few studies have investigated the brain mechanisms underlying…
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We’re gaining new information every day about how and why we sleep, but even with all of the information available, there are still a lot of myths that people cling to. A research team from NYU School of Medicine reviewed more than 8,000 websites to identify the 20 most common assumptions about sleep.  Here are…
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An international collaboration has found 47 links between our genetic code and the quality, quantity and timing of how we sleep. They include ten new genetic links with sleep duration and 26 with sleep quality. The study was funded by Britain’s Medical Research Council, and looked at data from 85,670 participants of UK Biobank and…
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