From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release: Previous research has analyzed variations in sleep patterns including number of hours slept, quality of sleep, and sleep-wake times, and found an association with cognitive impairments, health and…
From the California Institute of Technology press release: Caltech researchers have identified a neural circuit in the brain that controls wakefulness. The findings have implications for treating insomnia, oversleeping, and sleep disturbances that accompany other neuropsychiatric…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: Preliminary results from a new study show that depressed patients with insomnia who sleep seven or more hours per night are more likely to benefit from cognitive…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: 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…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: Preliminary results of a new study show that social jet lag has emerged as an important circadian marker for health outcomes. Results show that social jet…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: Preliminary results from the “SNAPSHOT study,” an NIH-funded collaborative research project between the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and MIT…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: Preliminary results of a new study show that sleep disturbance is strongly related to the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs among student athletes in…
From the Canadian Association for Neuroscience press release: Dr. John Peever at the University of Toronto has been working to answer one of humanity’s greatest questions: how do we dream? He has found a certain area…
From the University of Zürich press release: For the first time, researchers of the University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have demonstrated the causal context of why deep sleep is…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: A new study suggests that men and women are affected differently by sleep disorders. Results show that women are more likely than men to have more…