Topic: Sleep in the News

When you’re sleep deprived, you tend to reach for doughnuts, fries and pizza. A new Northwestern Medicine study has figured out why you crave more calorie-dense, high-fat foods after a sleepless night — and how to help thwart those unhealthy choices. Blame it on your nose – or olfactory system — which is affected in…
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It’s not going out on a limb to say all moms, at some point or another (or all of the time) are sleep deprived.  Unfortunately, young children don’t always sleep the way we hope they will.  New research shows that bees have the solution.  They hardly sleep when taking care of young ones, and it…
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It may seem obvious that sleep is an important key to succeeding in college, but a new study shows just how critical it really is. Two MIT professors found a strong relationship not just between students’ grades and how much sleep they’re getting, but also what time students go to bed, and how often they…
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A new and exceptionally extensive worldwide study on sleep looked at nearly a quarter of a million nights of sleep among sleepers ranging between 16 and 30 years of age, and came away with some very interesting findings. The researchers indicate that there are differences in the duration and timing of sleep by age, geographical…
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Americans in general don’t get nearly enough sleep, which leads to a variety of health problems.  For teens, those problems are amplified because their bodies need the energy to grow.  That’s why new research announced today is so exciting.  Researchers say they’ve found a technique to reset teen body clocks, and help them get an…
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Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep is a fascinating period when most of our dreams are made. It’s also apparently a time to forget. A team of Japanese and U.S. researchers say that according to their new research, REM sleep is when the brain actively and intentionally forgets things.  Their results suggest that forgetting during…
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It’s a common belief that individuals who snore are usually tired the next day.  But, new research suggests snoring does not lead to a bad night’s sleep, at least not for the person doing the snoring.  Scientists did some myth busting with a study of 74 people.  Volunteers had a device containing a small microphone…
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Sleep deprivation and exercise can make people with peanut allergies more sensitive, according to a new British study The team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital found that exercise and sleep deprivation each significantly reduce the threshold of reactivity (the amount of peanut needed to trigger a reaction) in people with peanut allergy, putting them at greater risk…
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A new Harvard Medical School study looked at the connection between when teens go to bed and the weight they gain, and found that night owl girls have more weight problems. Sleep experts call your sleep schedule a “chronotype.”  This new research found that for adolescent girls, but not boys, bigger waistlines and greater fat…
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The intensity of brain activity during the day, notwithstanding how long we’ve been awake, appears to increase our need for sleep, according to a new British study on zebrafish. The research found a gene that responds to brain activity in order to coordinate the need for sleep. It helps shed new light on how sleep is…
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