From the BMJ – British Medical Journal press release via ScienceDaily: Witnessing or being on the receiving end of bullying at work heightens the risk of employees being prescribed antidepressants,… Read more »
From the University of Lincoln press release via ScienceDaily: Half of the benefit of taking sleeping pills comes from the placebo effect, according to a major new study published in… Read more »
From the University of Notre Dame press release by Susan Guibert via MedicalXpress: Witnessing a car wreck or encountering a poisonous snake are scenes that become etched in our memories…. Read more »
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: A new study suggests that extending nightly sleep in mildly sleepy, healthy adults increases daytime alertness and reduces pain… Read more »
From the UCLA press release by Laura Perry via ScienceDaily: Women suffering from sleep apnea have, on the whole, a higher degree of brain damage than men with the disorder,… Read more »
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: While in deep dreamless sleep, our hippocampus sends messages to our cortex and changes its plasticity, possibly transferring recently acquired knowledge to long-term memory. But… Read more »
From the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: If you are among the 50 percent of Americans who suffer from insomnia, then you have probably tried everything… Read more »
From the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: More than half of all retired people aged 65 and over report sleeping at least 7.5… Read more »
From the American Thoracic Society press release via Newswise: A novel brain mechanism mediating the inhibition of the critical breathing muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep has been identified… Read more »
From the Johns Hopkins University press release via EurekAlert!: For most of history, humans rose with the sun and slept when it set. Enter Thomas Edison, and with a flick… Read more »
