At first glance, the headline above seems silly. Of course sleep is more important. Sleep deprivation can bring on a host of physical and emotional problems. However, if it’s truly that obvious, why are many of us letting our phone get in the way of sleeping properly? With an increase in the use of phones…
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At first glance, the headline above seems silly. Of course sleep is more important. Sleep deprivation can bring on a host of physical and emotional problems. However, if it’s truly that obvious, why are many of us letting our phone get in the way of sleeping properly? With an increase in the use of phones…
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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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The Webby Awards, the Internet’s most respected symbol of success, awarded both a Webby AND a People’s Voice award to Carpenter Co. and sleep tips website SleepBetter.org for the video 2 Guys, 600 Pillows. The effort was a commissioned work by “Internetainers” Rhett & Link, who put 600 pillows to work in a music video…
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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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A new study suggests that getting an extra hour of sleep at night could help your teenager drive more safely. The study, published in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, compared school start times and automobile crash rates for students aged 16 to 18 years in Virginia Beach, Va., where high school classes began between 7:20…
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Recently we’ve been hit by a barrage of news stories about American air traffic controllers falling asleep. As these are the people who ensure that planes carrying hundreds of other people land safely, this is truly worrisome. Unfortunately, however, it’s not surprising. The sole reason for SleepBetter’s existence is that individuals in the U.S. and…
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There’s a good post on the New York Times blogs this week, looking into the causes of snoring and how it can be reduced or prevented. The common misconception is those sharing a room with a snorer should just roll their noisy roommate over. However, the Times quotes a 2009 study that shows position doesn’t…
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New research indicates that too little sleep can interfere with brain development … at the very least. NBC News is doing a series this week about the teen brain, and this installment looks into what harm is being done by the fact that teenagers on average get about two hours less sleep than they should:
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