Sleep

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Too much sleep is just as bad for your brain as too little, concludes world’s largest sleep study

Rich Haridy October 10, 2018

The first results from the world’s largest sleep study conclude that between seven and eight hours of sleep is the ideal range for optimal cognitive performance. The study also revealed that too much sleep correlated with similar cognitive deficits associated with too little sleep.

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Science

How a day-time nap helps you process unconscious information

Rich Haridy October 7, 2018

​New research has found short naps can help a person process information they were not even consciously aware of perceiving. The study adds weight to prior work finding sleep improves a person’s problem solving abilities, suggesting a nap helps one process unconscious information.​

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Science

Simple blood test could detect drowsy drivers

Ben Coxworth September 24, 2018

​It's no secret that not getting enough sleep can cause a person to be a drowsy, dangerous driver. What's difficult, however, is being able to objectively determine whether or not a driver IS sleep-deprived. Soon, a blood test could provide the answer.

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The molecular changes caused by sleep loss, and how that leads to weight gain

Rich Haridy August 23, 2018

A number of observational studies have suggested that sleep loss or disrupted circadian rhythms are associated with obesity, diabetes and other dysfunctional metabolic conditions. A study is now offering evidence that helps explain how tissue-level molecular changes are brought on by sleep loss.

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Health & Wellbeing

Researchers discover novel brain mechanism connecting depression with bad sleep

Rich Haridy July 25, 2018

Major depression and sleep problems are fundamentally interlinked. A new study from a team of international researchers has now found a unique neurological mechanism that underlies this association offering new insights into how we can understand and hopefully treat major depression.

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Biology

Activating "grandmother neurons" could reset body clock

Michael Irving July 13, 2018

Researchers at Washington University in St Louis have isolated a small cluster of “grandmother” neurons that tell the rest of the brain when to go to bed, and found that stimulating those could help combat jet lag.

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Wearables

Noise-masking Bose Sleepbuds now available to the restless public

Michael Irving June 20, 2018

If you missed out on a pair of Bose’s noise-masking Sleepbuds during the Indiegogo campaign last November, the company has now made them available to the public. They're designed to sit comfortably in your ears all night, masking traffic noise or snoring partners with relaxing natural sounds.

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Science

How staying up all night can dramatically influence over 100 proteins in your blood

Rich Haridy May 22, 2018

New research has studied how protein levels in human blood can vary over a 24-hour period depending on when a person is sleeping and eating. The striking results found that when a person stays up all night, the patterns of over 100 different proteins in the blood are disrupted.

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Science

Australian clinical trial set to study cannabis as insomnia treatment

Rich Haridy April 30, 2018

A team of researchers from the University of Western Australia is set to embark on a world-first human clinical trial specifically examining the effects of medicinal cannabis on subjects suffering from chronic insomnia.

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Science

Vitamin B6 found to aid dream recall, and potentially enable lucid dreaming

Rich Haridy April 30, 2018

A new study from researchers at the University of Adelaide suggests that taking vitamin B6 supplements before sleep may help a person better remember their dreams the next day. It is hoped that the specific vitamin could be recruited in the future to aid the process of lucid dreaming.

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