A lack of sleep doesn’t just leave you cranky and spoiling for a fight. Researchers at The Ohio State University Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research say it also puts you at risk for stress-related inflammation. This type of inflammation is associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, arthritis and other diseases. “We know sleep…
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It’s definitely air conditioning season in the vast majority of the United States, particularly in areas where daytime temperatures have been rising a dozen or more degrees above 100. New research conducted in Japan shows that while air conditioners make you more comfortable, the airflow from the vents may actually cause problems while you sleep. …
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Wouldn’t it be great if we knew the best times for us to go to sleep and wake up, and could tailor our jobs and the rest of our lives to that schedule? It may be a pipe dream, but researchers are learning more every day about the role of circadian rhythms in our lives….
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Preliminary results from a new study suggest that short-term sleep extension improves response time and daytime functioning of professional baseball players. Results show that after five nights of sleep extension, professional baseball players from an MLB organization demonstrated a 13-percent improvement on a cognitive processing speed test by reacting 122 milliseconds faster. They also responded…
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, is an anxiety disorder in which people have recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas or sensations that make them feel driven to do something repetitively. It turns out that there’s a link between sleep and severity of OCD. Binghamton University Professor of Psychology Meredith E. Coles and former graduate student Jessica…
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Researchers in California have identified a neural circuit in the brain that controls wakefulness. What does that mean? What it means is that the finding could lead to new treatments for insomnia, oversleeping, and sleep disturbances that accompany other neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression. The work was done in the laboratory of Viviana Gradinaru, assistant…
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Cognitive behavioral therapy, which traditionally includes regular, and often weekly, visits to a clinician, is recommended by the American College of Physicians and other organizations for treatment of chronic insomnia. However, when you’re in the military, that might be difficult. According to a new study, there is a viable alternative. For military personnel, internet-delivered cognitive…
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An international team of researchers has taken a first step toward unraveling of the biological mechanisms that cause insomnia. The team announced that it has found, for the first time, seven risk genes for insomnia. Insomnia is probably the most common health complaint, and many experts claim it is purely a psychological condition. This new…
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An old pharmaceutical product may be a new treatment for obstructive sleep apnea, according to new research. David Carley, professor of biobehavioral health sciences, medicine and bioengineering at University of Illinois at Chicago; Phyllis Zee, professor of neurology at Northwestern University; and their colleagues have discovered that dronabinol, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug…
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Preliminary results of a new study show that social jet lag has emerged as an important indicator for health. Results show that social jet lag, which occurs when you go to bed and wake up later on weekends than during the week, is associated with poorer health, worse mood, and increased sleepiness and fatigue. Each…
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