Only one out of twenty adolescents in the United States is meeting national recommendations for sleeping, physical activity, and screen time, according to new research released this week. The study, conducted by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), also revealed differences in the findings between females and males, with just 3 percent…
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People with sleep apnea struggle to remember details of memories from their own lives, potentially making them vulnerable to depression, according to new research conducted in Australia. Estimated to affect more than 936 million people worldwide, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious condition that occurs when a person’s breathing is interrupted during sleep. People with…
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Years ago, you could buy language and even motivational tapes that were designed to be played while you slept. Many people dismissed this technique, but new research shows it may have actually worked. Until now, sleep research focused on the consolidation of memories that had been formed during preceding wakefulness. However, learning during sleep has…
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Pre-teens who use a mobile phone or watch TV in the dark an hour before bed are at risk of not getting enough sleep, when compared to those who use these devices in a lit room or not at all. The study by British and Swiss researchers is the first to analyse the pre-sleep use…
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Sleep deprivation is at critical levels in the U.S., and it may be leading to an increase in heart disease. According to a new story, people who sleep less than six hours a night may be at increased risk of cardiovascular disease compared with those who sleep between seven and eight hours. Researchers say that…
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Poor sleep is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. People with the disease tend to wake up tired, and their nights become even less refreshing as memory loss and other symptoms worsen. But how and why restless nights are linked to Alzheimer’s disease is still not fully understood. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine…
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New research from the Netherlands has identified five different types of insomnia, explaining that this may be the reason it’s been a disorder that’s so hard to treat. Researchers say the finding could be a new page in the history of insomnia, promoting discoveries on mechanisms and interventions. One out of ten people suffer from…
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A new study has found a list of risk factors for a violent sleep disorder. REM sleep is the dream state of sleep. During normal REM sleep, your brain sends signals to prevent your muscles from moving. However, for people with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder, those signals are disrupted. Individuals with the…
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Here at SleepBetter, we clearly love to talk about sleep, and how we can all do it better. It turns out, however, that a lot of people are talking about that same thing in these first few days of 2019. Check out this listing of articles that say sleep is something you should improve in…
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We’ve known for some time that lack of sleep leads us to want to eat more, but new research shows that just one night of sleep loss can increase the desirability of junk foods, even in young men of healthy weight. Building on insights from behavioral economics and endocrinology, researchers in Germany set out to…
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