Topic: Sleep in the News

It may not surprise some parents, but a new study shows that teens that play video games get less sleep than they should. This study was conducted by the American Psychiatric Association and analyzed 16,000 teens.  While the average American teen isn’t sleeping the proper amount, those who play video games are even less likely to…
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There is a great new article out this week from CNN.com that gives advice for school-age children who are having more serious sleep problems. The article gives tips for six different ailments that could be causing your child to lose sleep hours. Some of these include: Apnea & Snoring: A study showed that one quarter…
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A new brownie product sold at convenience stores is likely to be found right next to pills and small drink bottles that claim to keep you energetic and awake, but these brownies claim that they have the exact opposite affect …. to help you relax. Before you ask, the makers of the brownies, called Lazy…
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There’s a great article this week from Sign On San Diego that addresses the myth that seniors need less sleep than younger people.  The article, written by gerontologist (doctors who study aging and the problems associated with it) Dr. Mario Garrett, points out that sleep disruption among anyone, let alone older individuals, can cause memory…
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Are you the type of person who will ignore an alarm clock, sleep through the alarm, or hit the snooze button over and over again until you’re late to work?  If so, we’ve got some clocks that will make SURE you wake up.  They won’t always do it in the most calming sort of way,…
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Are you the type of person who will ignore an alarm clock, sleep through the alarm, or hit the snooze button over and over again until you’re late to work?  If so, we’ve got some clocks that will make SURE you wake up.  They won’t always do it in the most calming sort of way,…
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Television station WXIA in Atlanta, Georgia is highlighting sleep this week. In their Monday report, we learn about Meteorologist Chesley McNeil’s sleep study…

Individuals who have diabetes and sleep poorly may have a harder time controlling their blood sugar.  That’s the finding of a new study that is the largest of its kind.  The findings, which were published in Diabetes Care, suggest that poor sleep may contribute to worse outcomes in people with diabetes. For the study, researchers monitored…
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Is it possible to be awake and asleep … at the same time?  Apparently it is, if you’re a rat. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and in Italy kept rats up four hours past the rodents’ usual bedtime. Even though the rats stayed awake, electrodes implanted in their brains showed that some brain cells…
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Individuals who are lacking in sleep tend to have a sunny outlook, but can do some crazy things.  That’s the finding of a study by neuroscientists at two medical schools at Duke University in North Carolina. The scientists used an MRI to prove how sleep deprivation led to increased brain activity in brain regions that…
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