After being in an accident or going through some other type of stressful or traumatic event, a common piece of advice may be to get some rest, but a new study is showing that it actually may be better to stay awake. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, found that…
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A recent study shows that mid day naps for youngsters may be even more important than we realized. The study, conducted at the University of Colorado in Boulder, revealed that toddlers who miss their daily naps are at a higher risk to develop mood disorders later on in life. Researchers examined children between the ages…
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Throughout the past few years there has been an ongoing debate about what time middle and high school students should begin their school day, since many research findings have revealed that teens are extremely sleep deprived. Now, a community of teens is doing more than just talking about the problem. High school students around the…
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It is common knowledge that sleep is hard to come by if you’re staying overnight at a hospital. But, a new study shows just how bad the problem can be. According to the World Health Organization, the noise level in hospital rooms should not go above 30 to 40 decibels. However, a new study conducted…
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Falling asleep while driving has been a growing problem for some time now, and there have been many gadgets designed to remedy this problem, but a new one from Japan is novel to say the least. The company, Juki, has designed a device that goes over the driver’s side seat to help the driver to stay awake…
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A recent study is flying in the face of logic by suggesting that technologies such as smartphones and tablet computers are not keeping us up at night. Tesearchers at the University of Sidney in Australia compared the average hours of sleep for people between the years 1992 and 2006. After looking over all of the data,…
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A new study has found that there may be some truth to the old excuse for grumpiness of waking up on the wrong side of the bed. The research included 3,000 people residing in the U.K. In the end, the study revealed that those people who sleep to the left of their husband or wife are more…
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New research indicates that the police officer you see parked in the median may be thinking about more than speeders — he or she may be thinking about sleep. The new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 40-percent of police officers screened positive for some type of sleep disorder….
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Many of us are getting over our holiday food hangovers this week, but more and more scientists are looking at how food impacts sleep. According to a new article from Wired Science, orexin, a chemical secreted in the hypothalamus, can be effected by the foods that we take in resulting in either a tired or…
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Insomnia is a growing problem, but a new study reveals that this sleep problem is affecting one group of people more than others. Multiple recent studies have found that African Americans sleep fewer hours, wake up more times in the middle of the night, and are more likely to take some sort of sleep aid….
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