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The results of a new study appear to indicate that young healthy males can experience a significant reduction in the amounts of testosterone they produce when they lose sleep. Lack of sleep has been positively correlated with the decreased production of this essential hormone. Experts at the University of Chicago rec... |
1 June 2011
08:26 GMT |
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For centuries, scientists have observed that depriving people of sleep can result in memory and cognitive impairments. However, the reason why that happened remained unclear. Now, researchers provide a new explanation for this peculiar phenomenon.One of the things that experts noticed in all species of animals that n... |
19 May 2011
09:42 GMT |
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A new investigation shows that children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be at even higher risk than their peers to experience negative symptoms from not getting enough sleep every night. While losing sleep hours has been proven to be detrimental for all age group, those with ADHD m... |
4 March 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Scientists already knew that sleep plays a very important role in the development of memories, so three researchers affiliated with the Department of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, carried out a study focusing on the link between sl... |
8 December 2010
04:40 GMT |
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A group of scientists has just published the first systematic review of the genetic changes that take place in the brains of people who suffer from persisting sleep deprivation, and the results are very interesting.The work has already received praise for its potential in helping improve the understanding and managem... |
3 November 2010
11:53 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind research, experts determined that each person's personality traits and social activity patterns interact to determine that person's vulnerability to experiencing sleep deprivation.The new research paper, which appears in the November 1 issue of the esteemed scientific journal SLEEP, i... |
1 November 2010
10:55 GMT |
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A new research carried out by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, found out why some people only sleep a few hours at night and burst with energy and others can hardly function after an eight-hour sleep – it's all about genes.The team led by Namni Goel, PhD, looked at people ... |
26 October 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Sleeping for only four hours per night for an entire week had the same effect on the brains of group of volunteers as acute total sleep deprivation. The finding is a new alert signal for people who get only limited hours of sleep each night. Even short-term exposure to sleep deprivation can have significant consequen... |
10 August 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Researchers investigating our sleep mechanisms have recently determined that periods of lost sleep cannot be made up for at a later date. In a sense, the damage that is done when you force yourself to remain awake for tens of hours continuously cannot be made up for if you sleep 20 hours or more after that. The team ... |
14 January 2010
17:01 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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According to a new paper published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Behavioral and Healthcare Research, the more tired resident physicians in learning hospitals are, the more likely they are to make a mistake. This may sound like stating the obvious, but clear scientific data are required before me... |
14 September 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Intense physical exercises have been recently linked to reduced risks of cancer, as scientists proved that more workouts better prepare the body in fighting off cell mutations, which cause the devastating disease. But the newest researches also show that, among those who practice a lot of sports, sleep also plays a c... |
18 November 2008
06:18 GMT |
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The causes of insomnia are diverse and span a great many medical conditions, but the underlying brain activity that keeps young and middle-aged adults awake for prolonged periods of time has yet to be determined. The latest issue of the journal Sleep may hold the answer to this dilemma, as scientists discovered that ... |
3 November 2008
05:55 GMT |
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It's not easy to concentrate after a long sleepless night, everybody knows that. It has been scientifically proven more than once that sleep deprivation actually decreases the activity of the brain, while after having slept, it reaches its highest levels. Washington University School of Medicine researchers have... |
1 August 2008
10:48 GMT |
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We live in an age in which for many of us, life without a mobile phone would be inconceivable. And we're not talking about busy professionals here, who - quite understandably - need to keep in touch with their colleagues and clients. In today's world, many teenagers live in a virtual universe, in which face... |
11 June 2008
16:19 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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