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Why broken sleep is a golden time for creativity
People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
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Why broken sleep is a golden time for creativity
People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
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You're not sleeping as much as you think you are
How to find out how much you're actually sleeping — and how to improve it.
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Keep That E-Reader Out of Bed and You’ll Feel Better
New research finds e-readers, like other light-emitting electronic devices, can disrupt normal sleep patterns.
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How to nap like a pro
Growing up, sleep was considered paramount in my family home. My siblings and I didn’t have many house rules – bedtimes were flexible, we had free reign over microwaved TV dinners (this was the 1980s), and video games. But one thing was always crystal clear: we couldn’t disturb an adult, or another kid, who was taking a nap. As I got older, I was in for a rude awakening. Apparently, society looks down upon napping in the adult working world. But evidence is growing that napping can produce...
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Want More Sleep (And Better Productivity)? Work From Home.
A study suggests people with more flexible work schedules can sleep better and be more productive and healthier.
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Why your body jerks before you fall asleep
If you have ever wondered why people’s arms and legs twitch suddenly while drifting off to sleep, our resident psychologist Tom Stafford has the answer.
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What It’s Like to Need Hardly Any Sleep
While most people don't function well after an extended stretch of four or fewer hours of sleep a night, there may be a very small percentage who can thrive under these circumstances. In a landmark 2009 study, researchers discovered a genetic mutation in a mother and daughter who seemed to need much less sleep than the average person — the first time any mutation relating to sleep duration had been found (while the sample size wasn’t huge, the effect was replicated in mouse and fruit fly...
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VVFly Vibrates and Speaks in Your Sleep to Stop Your Snores
Fighting for restful nights everywhere, VVFly's intelligent earpiece uses voice and vibration to help you stop snoring.
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Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
To understand a coffee nap, you have to understand how caffeine affects you. After it's absorbed through your small intestine and passes into your bloodstream, it crosses into your brain. There, it fits into receptors that are normally filled by a similarly-shaped molecule, called adenosine.
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Sleeping sickness traps Kazakh town in waking nightmare
Scientists are baffled by a mysterious illness that has sent hundreds of people into days-long slumbers
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Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep
Scientists are reporting that 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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Why can’t we remember dreams? The neuroscience of ecstasy and sadness
It seems like a pact with the devil. As soon as you're in a position to record a dream, it starts to disappear
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The Science Of Good Sleep: There's A Reason You're Always So Tired
Limit your bed activities to sleep and sex.
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What People Around the World Dream About
An atlas of the subconscious, from Tijuana to Reykjavik
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Can't Sleep? There's a Hat for That
Sleep is almost as vital as food and water because it restores our bodies and minds and, in many ways, keeps us alive. Michael Larson PhD ’92 never used to think about how vital sleep is until his daughter developed a sleep disorder as a high school senior. That problem turned their lives upside down.
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Our poor sleeping habits are filling our brains with neurotoxins
One more reason to put away the phone and just get a good night's sleep, already.
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Cognitive behaviour therapy is one of the most effective treatments for insomnia, study shows
One of the most effective treatments for insomnia can be found inside your own head – but it's unlikely to be recommended by your doctor.
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Why Do Graveyard Shifts Wreak Havoc on Human Metabolism?
By getting volunteers to live in a sleep lab for more than a month, researchers hope to unravel the effects of chronic sleep debt and circadian rhythm gone awry. Humans are wired to be awake during the day and sleep at night, but millions of Americans defy biology to pull the graveyard shift. Hospital employees, firefighters and, increasingly, office workers all punch in for nighttime work. These nocturnal schedules appear to be one driver of the rising rates of obesity and metabolic disorders.
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I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded
In the summer of 2009, I was finishing the first—and toughest—year of my doctorate. To help me get through it, while I brewed chemicals in test tubes during the day, I was also planning a crazy experiment to cheat sleep. As any good scientist would, I referred to past studies, recorded data, and discussed notes with some of my colleagues. Although the sample size was just one—and, obviously, biased—I was going to end up learning...
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