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Over recent weeks, a large number of false alarms have prompted Mission Controls in Houston, the US, and in Russia to wake up astronauts while they were sleeping on the space station, and to put them on alert about possible impacts. The International Space Station's (ISS) orbit is currently taking the facility m... |
21 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a very serious medical condition, which manifests itself during sleep. A sufferer's breathing may be temporarily impaired, leading to chocking and diminished blood flow to the brain. If it goes untreated for a year, OSA can have significant implications on the health of the brain... |
11 November 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Remote Analysis Ltd., a telemedicine services provider that also specializes in remote medical analysis, has introduced an iPhone application for recording and analyzing snoring and sleep apnea. Launched in cooperation with Elias Pietilä’s Qvik Ltd. (the maker of the popular Wooden Labyrinth - iTunes link)... |
6 November 2009
04:21 GMT |
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As if working the night shift wasn't difficult and demanding enough, scientists have recently determined that ingesting caffeine can also have a negative effect on people's bodies during the day. That is to say, if workers drink coffee or energy drinks as they work, they may be cutting the branch from under... |
4 November 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Sleep apnea is a very widespread condition today, especially among people living in highly urbanized areas and subjected to large amounts of pollution. It is characterized by regular breathing stopping from time to time during sleep, mostly because of blockages that appear in the respiratory pathways. The reason why ... |
3 November 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Though scientists still have no clue why we need to sleep, if we don't, there are always consequences. One of the most severe is the fact that our memory is left in tatters and that we lose our ability to concentrate on the tasks at hand throughout the next day. Now, researchers hope to counteract some of these ... |
22 October 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Researchers looking into understanding the triggers that favor the onset and development of Alzheimer's disease recommend that people respect their normal sleeping times whenever possible. In new scientific studies, investigators determined that the lack of sleep could contribute to the production of a biomolecu... |
25 September 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Rest is essential not only for your wellbeing but also for your health, as countless studies have shown already. Not being able to fall or stay asleep, or tossing a lot around at night can be caused by several factors, which means eliminating them is the perfect way to get a good night’s sleep, Shape magazine s... |
19 September 2009
09:41 GMT |
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An international team of researchers, composed of experts from the Rutgers University, in Newark, the US, and the College de France, in Paris, has determined for the first time the nature of the mechanisms that take place in the human brain during sleep, which cause learning and memory to form. The scientific proof c... |
16 September 2009
09:02 GMT |
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We’ve often heard that the key to a perfectly functional and lasting marriage, or any other type of relationship, for that matter, is communication and openness. While this still remains true, sleep expert Dr. Neil Stanley is telling people that their marriage cannot work if they and their partners share the sa... |
9 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Sleep studies are always difficult to conduct, as test participants need to be monitored in conditions mostly equivalent to their natural environment. However, specialized equipment can only be used in the labs, which means that people undergoing the tests need to be there when they sleep. This cumbersome and rather ... |
2 September 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Understanding exactly how we learn and remember has been a long-standing goal in science for many years, but investigations into the issue have thus far yielded inconclusive and contradictory results. Recently, a new study conducted on rats has revealed a new aspect of the problem. The team of investigators, from the... |
27 August 2009
14:41 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that we spend more than one third of our life sleeping, science has not been able to explain yet why we need to close our eyes at night (or during the day, depending on jobs and preferences). While some may argue that sleeping is essential for relaxing the organism and recharging one's batte... |
25 August 2009
10:42 GMT |
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According to a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-supported study, it would appear that severe sleep apnea increases the risk of death in middle-aged citizens, and especially in males. This is the first landmark study to prove that serious scientific connections ... |
18 August 2009
10:49 GMT |
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We all have at least one friend or family members who seems to be unaffected by the flow of time, and who is able to wake up in the morning after only a few hours of sleep. What to others may seem only like a nap is enough for these people to recharge their batteries and go about their day completely rested up, Scien... |
16 August 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center have recently discovered, after a five-year study, that sleep patterns in children and teenagers play an important role in predicting depression risks years later in life. For some time, researchers have known that adults who are depressed experience rapid-eye moveme... |
13 August 2009
09:33 GMT |
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According to the results of a European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop, it may be that sleep therapy could help treat patients with psychosis. Experts have found that brain activity patterns in people dreaming are roughly the same ones that occur in psychosis episodes. Additionally, others have proposed over the ye... |
29 July 2009
08:22 GMT |
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A new scientific research has determined that an increasingly larger number of teens stay up until the wee hours of the morning, “fueled” by coffee and energy drinks, and spend their time chatting online, playing games, surfing the Internet, or text-messaging to one another. Scientists from the Drexel Uni... |
27 July 2009
09:57 GMT |
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A new scientific study comes to shed some light onto why some children find it more difficult to fall asleep than others. The explanation that researchers found resided within the level of activity the youngsters performed on any given day. While parents have known for a long time that, if their kids play a lot, they... |
24 July 2009
06:47 GMT |
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Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated in a new mouse-model study that the animals that are prevented from remembering data collected during the day while sleeping tend to have “fuzzy” memories the next day, as opposed to mice who were left to sleep undisturbed. The researc... |
25 June 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Women who are happily married also sleep better than singles, or even than those who are in a stable, longtime relationship but that has not yet been made official. An eight-year study conducted by researchers in the US has established that marital bliss also equals better sleep during the night, which considerably c... |
11 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Anna Ryan from the UK is one of an almost insignificant 3 percent of the population suffering from a very rare condition known as Sleep Related Eating Disorder, or SRED. In a new interview with Closer magazine, the woman, who at the age of 42 has reached a weight of 120kg (19 stone), says her life is a genuine nightm... |
10 June 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The spread of the obesity pandemic in the young population around the world is very troublesome, researchers say, especially because no one really knows what's causing it. Among the suggestions, too much sedentary time, as in watching TV and using computers all day long, coupled with an inappropriate diet, high ... |
9 June 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a very complex medical issue, which mostly manifests through the fact that sufferers find they are unable to rest and sleep properly. The problem may affect as much as one third of the American public, with the vast majority of the population reporting sleeping less than they would fe... |
20 May 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Mobile Frontiers Ltd., a company whose mission is to enhance people's lives through mobile technology, has recently announced “A Good Night's Sleep,” an iPhone app that promises to be “the definitive solution to stress and insomnia.” The application is immediately available for downl... |
15 May 2009
09:22 GMT |
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Without a doubt, we’ve all experienced that nasty sensation of laying down to sleep, after professing we would doze off even before our head got to touch the pillow, and not being able to keep the eyes shut. As the body breaks down from the stress and exhaustion throughout the day, the mind seems to race a hund... |
8 May 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Researchers in Finland have announced that the short sleep duration in children is very likely to cause symptoms related to the emergence of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), even if other complications are not present. They also warn that this is a very widespread problem, in that sleep durations ... |
28 April 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Unborn babies' sleep patterns have been an enigma for researchers since modern observation techniques have been devised. Measuring the brain activities of people sleeping is easy when they are outside the womb. Electroencephalograms can yield a pretty detailed insight into someone's subconscious mind, and t... |
14 April 2009
10:51 GMT |
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The human brain is, indeed, a perfect construction, researchers have recently said, after the results of a new study detailing the changes that go on in our synapses while we sleep have been published. It would appear that sleep, other than being comforting for the mind and for the body, also helps our brain function... |
3 April 2009
09:55 GMT |
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Heat therapy has been used since the days of yore to treat aches and sore muscles, but that’s not all it does, as it can also relieve stress and, some say, even fight depression. In this sense, heated pillows, or the more convenient variant of microwave heated pads, are ideal after a hard day’s work, help... |
23 March 2009
17:41 GMT |
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We live such hectic, stressful lives that the only moments we get entirely to ourselves are while we sleep – or so we might think. As it happens, we often take most of our worries and problems to bed, which prevents us from getting a restful night slumber. This, in turn, means that our health is suffering from ... |
18 March 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Since, say, the 1980s, the world has suffered a dramatic change in terms of the demands the community has from its members, in regards to the number of hours each individual has to work per day, to earn their keep, or to the total volume of labor that is needed in order for society to function properly. But new studi... |
10 March 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Hitting the snooze button once, twice, ten times in the course of a morning has become, for many, part of the wake-up ritual, as having that daily cup of black coffee. As research has repeatedly shown, hitting the snooze button is becoming something of a common occurrence, as we all try to hold back the beginning of ... |
2 March 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Worrying new statistics show that more than 33 percent of US citizens sleep much less than they should, mostly because of financial concerns related to the safety of their workplace and the amount of their bills. Over the last years, the average amount of sleep that people have gotten has decreased by 13 percent sinc... |
2 March 2009
05:28 GMT |
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With every new study, psychologists and brain experts find that their level of knowledge of the human brain is actually a lot smaller than they used to believe. For instance, a new research shows that various stages of sleep are directly linked to the long-term memory embedding process. In other words, the quality of... |
26 February 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Snoring is often something most of us are ashamed of. However, it also holds the key to our health, in that it can determine if we suffer from a condition called sleep apnea, which, in turn, considerably increases the chances of a heart attack. Women’s Health puts forward a simple test we and our bed partner ca... |
25 February 2009
16:11 GMT |
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According to new scientific research, it's not various mental conditions that affect our sleep and make people tired all the time, but vice versa. That is to say, too little sleep or agitated rest can easily trigger “malfunctions” as far as brain health goes, and may open the way to the development o... |
19 February 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Lunch break ended half an hour or so ago, and we’re sitting at the desk, trying to work. For some obscure reason, we can’t seem to keep our eyes open for longer than one minute tops, while our head is constantly tilting towards the keyboard and we feel a sudden urge to crawl under the desk to get some shu... |
13 February 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Conventional wisdom until now held that the brain entered a state of “hibernation” while sleeping, and that the senses could be activated only by outside stimuli, or by the body's internal clock. This explanation of the electrical activity registered among neurons during sleep now seems to be a bit o... |
5 February 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Given that today’s society is always in a rush, we have been “trained” to think that sleeping a normal 8 hours makes us lazy, for which reason alone we should feel guilty and make up for it later. Nutritionist Alexa Fishback, author of The Daily Fix, tells FitSugar that, far from being so, sleep is ... |
2 February 2009
16:41 GMT |
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There are people who, as to their own admission, don’t like to sleep because they feel as if they’re letting life pass them by. It is they, a new study reveals, who are more likely to develop colds, as lack of sleep (or the poor quality of it) is believed to weaken the immune system, which is no longer ab... |
19 January 2009
13:51 GMT |
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Given our hectic schedules and, most often than not, our unhealthy dietary habits, we frequently find ourselves at night, staring at the ceiling and not being able to sleep. While the abovementioned causes are just two of a myriad of them, lack of sleep can have disastrous consequences, which is why we should do what... |
14 January 2009
16:31 GMT |
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As far as the Windows operating system goes, Microsoft advocates the use of Sleep rather than Shut Down, with two immediate consequences. The first is intimately related to power savings, while the second involves being able to bring the operating system back to life in under 2 seconds. Windows in general, and Window... |
6 January 2009
11:11 GMT |
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When they feel a life-threatening scent in the air, the tiny spider mites behave very oddly: they fall asleep. A recent study shows that this effect could be used against them, in order to save crops, their main food source.Martijn Egas and his team from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands observed that wh... |
29 September 2008
07:27 GMT |
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Postmenopausal women sleeping less than six hours or more than nine hours every night have increased chances of suffering an ischemic stroke, shows a study carried out by Jiu-Chiuan Chen, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Postmenopause is a stage a woman has to go throug... |
21 July 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Whenever we happen to have one of those hectic, incredibly busy days when time seems to be slipping by and we feel like we're not getting anything done properly, sleep is one of the first things that we readily sacrifice. An hour or two, we say to ourselves, will not make a great deal of difference in our daily ... |
9 June 2008
07:08 GMT |
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We all know by now that a diet rich in fast food meals and kebab takeaways, ice cream desserts two times a day and lots of sugary, fizzy drinks is bound to get anyone of us to pile on the pounds. However, the true mystery is that sometimes, we eat the right amounts and types of foods and we exercise regularly and sti... |
7 June 2008
05:35 GMT |
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As part of our very busy, modern lifestyle, many of us find themselves in a position that imposes frequent traveling, often to very distant, overseas destinations. One of the most common and troublesome side effects of frequent flying is jet lag - a common physiological response of our bodies to the disruption of the... |
23 May 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Sloths really deserve their name: 11 % of the sloths move only 38 m (126 ft) daily, and 38 % of them cannot move at all for 24 hours. Captive two-toed sloths are active about 7 hours each day. Moreover, coming to increase the impression of laziness is the fact that, since sloths are nocturnal, they just sleep or doze... |
15 May 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Getting no sleep can be the main reason of one's zombie-like behavior, meaning, for sleepwalking. "Sleepwalkers should keep a regular bedtime to avoid unwanted evening strolls," said Antonio Zadra of the Université de Montréal, lead researcher of a study published in the Annals of Neurology journal, a study that... |
12 May 2008
14:11 GMT |
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