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  • News Articles Archive

    Health: Sleep


    Brain Prone To 'Sudden Shutdowns' After Losing One Night's Sleep
    posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008

    Being deprived of sleep even for one night makes the brain unstable and prone to sudden shutdowns akin to a power failure -- brief lapses that hover between sleep and wakefulness, according to researchers.
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    Can You Catch Up On Lost Sleep?
    posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

    Sleep debt is the difference between the amount of sleep you should be getting and the amount you actually get. It's a deficit that grows every time we skim some extra minutes off our nightly slumber. "People accumulate sleep debt surreptitiously," says psychiatrist William C. Dement, founder of the Stanford University Sleep Clinic. Studies show that such short-term sleep deprivation leads to a foggy brain, worsened vision, impaired driving, and trouble remembering. Long-term effects include obesity, insulin resistance, and heart disease. And most Americans suffer from chronic deprivation.
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    Sleep More To Slim Down
    posted on Monday, April 07, 2008

    An extra hour between the sheets at night might be the key to shedding excess weight and fighting obesity, according to recent research.
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    How Lack Of Sleep May Be Bad For The Brain
    posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008

    Both night-shift work and chronic sleep deprivation are increasingly implicated in mental and cognitive problems.
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    Blue LEDs Reset Tired Truckers' Body Clocks
    posted on Friday, March 21, 2008

    Eerie blue LEDs in truck cabs and truck stops could be the key to reducing accidents caused by drowsy drivers, say US researchers. They say bathing night drivers in the right light can increase their alertness by resetting their body clocks.
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    The Science Of Sleep
    posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008

    Why we sleep is one of the biggest unanswered questions in all of science, which is why researchers all over the country are doing studies and coming up with some new and intriguing discoveries.
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    Americans Get Too Little Sleep
    posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008

    With late-night TV watching, Internet surfing and other distractions, Americans are getting less and less sleep, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. And all this sleeplessness can be a nightmare for your mental and physical health, CDC experts cautioned, calling sleep loss an under-recognized public health problem.
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    Mobile Phone Radiation Wrecks Your Sleep
    posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008

    Radiation from mobile phones delays and reduces sleep, and causes headaches and confusion, according to a new study.

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    Snorting A Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep
    posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007

    A nasal spray of a key brain hormone cures sleepiness in sleep-deprived monkeys. With no apparent side effects, the hormone might be a promising sleep-replacement drug.
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    Nightline On Lucid Dreams
    posted on Saturday, December 01, 2007

    Somewhere in between the Cinderella school of dreaming and the darker dreamscape of "The Matrix" lies Stephen LaBerge, an expert in a technique called lucid dreaming. He believes that what happens to people in their dreams is as real an experience as what happens in real life.
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