Sleep Archive
Napping with dreams enhances learning
1 Comment Published May 2nd, 2010 in General Interest, Health News, Life, Mental Health, Popular, SleepSuccessful study habits should include plenty of napping, according to researchers reporting online in the April 22, 2010 issue of Current Biology. They found that people who take a nap and dream about a task they’ve just learned perform it better upon waking than either those who don’t sleep at all or those who sleep [...]
Too little sleep, too much sleep - both increase belly fat in young adults
0 Comments Published March 15th, 2010 in General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Life, Medical News, Popular, SleepAASMNET.org - African–American and Hispanic young adults with too much sleep or too little sleep had greater increases in belly fat over a five-year period compared with those who reported sleeping six to seven hours a night, according to a new study in the March 1, 2010 issue of the journal SLEEP.
In individuals under 40, [...]
Frequent napping linked to higher risk of type 2 diabetes
0 Comments Published March 14th, 2010 in General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Life, Medical News, Popular, SleepAASMNET.org - Frequent napping is associated with an increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in an older Chinese population, according to a study in the March 1, 2010 issue of the journal Sleep.
Results show that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes was 36 percent higher (adjusted odds ratio = 1.36) in [...]
Naps support abstract learning - at least in babies
0 Comments Published February 22nd, 2010 in Children, General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Life, Parents, Popular, SleepResearchers have discovered that daytime naps are an integral part of learning for babies, helping the developing brain to learn more about the new world and to retain new information.
Rebecca Gomez, Richard Bootzin and Lynn Nadel in the psychology department at the University of Arizona in Tucson found that babies who are able to get [...]
Obstructive sleep apnea worsens sugar control in diabetes
0 Comments Published January 14th, 2010 in General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Life, Medical News, Medicine, Popular, SleepObstructive sleep apnea (OSA) adversely affects glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago.
The study “demonstrates for the first time that there is a clear, graded, inverse relationship between OSA severity and glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes,” wrote lead author, [...]
Only 8 percent of teens get adequate sleep before school
0 Comments Published January 5th, 2010 in General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Life, Mental Health, Parents, Popular, SleepCFAH.org - Only about 8 percent of high school students get enough sleep on an average school night, a large new study finds. The others are living with borderline-to-serious sleep deficits that could lead to daytime drowsiness, depression, headaches and poor performance at school.
The study, which appears online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, evaluated [...]














