A new study reveals that most American office workers don’t consistently get good sleep. The study, conducted by Phillips, also indicates that lack of sleep is affecting workers’ on-the-job performance. Findings from the new ‘Workplace Power Outage’ Sleep Survey*, claim to challenge conventional assumptions about amount and quality of sleep and their relation to productivity…
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A new study indicates there may be a positive psychological benefit to sleep deprivation. The research, conducted at Yale University, indicates that staying awake may be therapeutic for some people with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders. It’s been long known (and documented in multiple articles here at SleepBetter.org, including this one) that…
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We’ve all seen the stereotype of the Japanese businessman who doesn’t make time for much of anything but work. It turns out that, at least in one category, the stereotype might be true. According to a new study of people in five of the largest cities in the world, Japanese businessmen get the least amount…
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The idea that members of the military who are deployed overseas would have sleep problems isn’t exactly a shocker, but the first large scale study on the subject shows that the problem is extremely widespread. A recent study conducted by the Department of Deployment Health Research at San Diego’s Naval Health Research Center looked at…
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There’s a great article on NationalGeographic.com this week about a new study that reinforces just how important sleep is for categorizing memories and even assisting with the operation of your brain. From the article: Previous research had shown that sleep helps people consolidate their memories, fixing them in the brain so we can retrieve them…
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There’s a great article on NationalGeographic.com this week about a new study that reinforces just how important sleep is for categorizing memories and even assisting with the operation of your brain. From the article: Previous research had shown that sleep helps people consolidate their memories, fixing them in the brain so we can retrieve them…
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New research is shedding light on the mystery that is insomnia. According to a study released by the University of Wisconsin in Madison, damage to a specific spot in their brains (highlighted in the image below) can create the inability to fall asleep … otherwise known as insomnia. The research was published in the Journal…
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The morning news show on KUSA-TV, channel 9 in Denver, Colorado, is spending an entire week on something near and dear to our hearts and something most morning show TV news people don’t get enough of — sleep. Their “Sleep Week” kicked off with a reporter undergoing an overnight sleep study. You can watch the…
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A new study published online in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) claims that what a mother-to-be eats during her pregnancy can cause both obesity and sleep problems for her child. According to a release from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where the research was conducted, what the…
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A new study shows once again the restorative powers of sleep. The research from the University of Notre Dame looked at the impact of sleep on memory. It found that slumber may not only help fix memories in the brain for later retrieval but also reconfigure them. Researchers tested participants before and after sleep, and…
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