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How to get the most out of napping
While closing your eyes for a few minutes during your busy day may seem like a good idea, it's important to consider the effects napping may bring.
Mar 10, 2023
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News tagged with nighttime sleep
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Researchers find a 'vicious cycle' between excessive daytime napping and Alzheimer's dementia
Daytime napping is common among older adults. The longitudinal relationship between daytime napping and cognitive aging, however, is unknown. A new cohort study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital found a bidirectional ...
Mar 17, 2022
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Even moderate light exposure during sleep harms heart health and increases insulin resistance: study
Close the blinds, draw the curtains and turn off all the lights before bed. Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during ...
Mar 14, 2022
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Pediatrics
Your 6-month-old isn't sleeping through the night? Relax
(HealthDay)—If your 6-month-old still wakes up at 2 a.m., a new study suggests you don't lose any additional sleep worrying about it.
Nov 12, 2018
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Neuroscience
Study finds new mechanism for regulating sleep in fruit flies using an ingredient commonly found in energy drinks
Sleep is an essential behavioral state in animals ranging from invertebrates to humans. It is critical for immune function, stable metabolism, brain repair, learning and memory. Over the course of a lifetime, more than 30 ...
Nov 8, 2018
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How sleep affects infants' ability to develop cognitive and language skills
Infants who sleep less may have lower cognitive and language skills by age two, but early intervention to reduce risk factors could help avoid more serious behavioural, cognitive and emotional problems down the road, new ...
Jul 11, 2018
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Pediatrics
Both quantity and quality of sleep affect cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents
A study from a research team led by a MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) physician finds that both the quantity and quality of sleep—the amount of time spent sleeping and the percentage of sleep that is undisturbed—in ...
Jun 15, 2018
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Neuroscience
Functional MRI reveals memory in sleeping toddlers
Our ability to remember past events develops rapidly in the first couple of years of life, but it's not clear exactly how this happens. Researchers at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis have ...
Jun 4, 2018
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Napping and teenage learning
Teenagers and sleep. It's certainly a passionate subject for many American parents, and those in China. University of Delaware's Xiaopeng Ji is investigating the relationship between midday-napping behaviors and neurocognitive ...
Apr 24, 2018
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Health
How to get the most out of napping
While closing your eyes for a few minutes during your busy day may seem like a good idea, it's important to consider the effects napping may bring.
Apr 6, 2018
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