A new study conducted among more than 177,000 students suggests that insufficient sleep duration is associated with an unhealthy lifestyle profile among children and adolescents. Read more...
"Two decades ago, Clifford B. Saper, MD/Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and colleagues discovered a set of nerve cells they thought might be the switch that turns the brain off, allowing it to sleep. In a new study published in Nature Communications today, Saper and colleagues demonstrate in mice that that these cells—located in a region of the hypothalamus called the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO) - are in fact essential to normal sleep." Read more...
"Preliminary findings from a pilot study suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) may slow or even reverse the atrophy of cortical gray matter in patients who have comorbid fibromyalgia." Read more...
"The importance of sleep is well-known. A recent study enforces this by demonstrating that sleep deprivation might increase diabetes risk — after losing just 1 night of sleep." Read more...
"Taking melatonin about an hour before turning in for the night improved sleep disturbances and sleep-related impairments in patients who had trouble falling asleep at their chosen bedtime and difficulty waking the next day, investigators reported in PLOS Medicine." Read more...
"In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University now demonstrate that one night of sleep loss has a tissue-specific impact on the regulation of gene expression and metabolism in humans. This may explain how shift work and chronic sleep loss impairs our metabolism and adversely affects our body composition. The study is published in the scientific journal Science Advances." Read more...
Men who eat a lot of fatty foods may find themselves needing an afternoon nap, a new study suggests.
There’s been a lot of back-and-forth recently about how much sleep we really need, with recent studies suggesting that some long-held notions about this may be outdated. For example, a recently published study challenged the widely held belief that adults need an average of eight hours of sleep a night to function well.
