Scientists in Britain have made an announcement that is likely to make insomniacs across the world cheer. Researchers at Oxford University’s Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour say a study of fruit flies has allowed them to locate the switch in the brain that sends us off to sleep. The switch works by regulating the…
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What’s the key to long life? According to new research, that depends upon whether you’re a man or a woman. The study, conducted at Melbourne, Australia’s Monash University, investigated how diet contributed to sleep quality and mortality among elderly men and women. It found that for both genders, poor sleep was strongly correlated with poor appetite and poor…
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New research shows that kids who unplug before bed not only sleep better, but also sleep a lot more. Researchers analyzed surveys on sleep and technology habits completed by 738 students at seven randomly selected schools in the Midlands region of England in 2010. They found that kids ages 11 to 13 slept significantly less when…
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It’s been a cold winter for a large part of the United States this year. It’s been so cold that schools have had to cancel due solely to the cold and not because of snow. When you think about how cold it has been, think about how it would be if you slept outside. That’s…
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An interesting new piece of research reinforces the fact that our minds are amazing things. It turns out that if you think you got a good night’s sleep, your mind acts like you did. The “placebo effect” is your body healing itself or relieving pain because you’ve been told you were given medicine, even if…
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Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health say that more sleep can help reduce the chance of developing prostate cancer as much as 75-percent. The research, presented recently at the American Association for Cancer Research Prostate Cancer Foundation Conference on Advances in Prostate Cancer Research, was a five-year study on about 930 Icelandic men. Iceland…
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The natural schedule for humans is to go to bed at night and sleep during the day. Unfortunately, however, modern life doesn’t work that way. To keep our economies running, some people must work at night. A new study says that vampire-like schedule can scramble everything from your hormones and body temperature to athletic ability, mood…
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Here’s one more reason to keep your New Year’s resolution to quit smoking. Researchers at the University of Rochester have learned that quitting will help you sleep better. The study, published in the FASEB Journal, found that smoking can decrease levels of a molecule (SIRTUIN 1, an anti-aging molecule) which in turn alters the levels of a…
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Researchers say they’ve developed a pacemaker-like device that could cut the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) by 70-percent. A study with the device, developed at the University of Pittsburgh and called the Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation (UAS) therapy, was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Standard treatments for OSA include weight loss,…
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Startling new research points to brain tissue loss as a result of lack of sleep. In fact, the study suggests not sleeping for even just one night could affect brain tissue in a way similar to a head injury. The research, conducted at Uppsala University in Sweden and published in the journal Sleep, surveyed a group of young…
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