TransMedia Group was retained to get the word out about a ’4 Good Night’s Sleep,’ all-natural sleep aid for people who can’t wait for pills to work, for those who cannot swallow pills, and who want to fall asleep fast and safely. MedGen Inc., the makers of Snorenz, which has over 5 million users, finally [...]
While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don’t get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what controls the actual need for sleep. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine might have an answer, at least in fruit flies. In a recent study of [...]
An independent link between sleep apnea and mortality has been discovered by a group of Australian researchers, suggesting the prevention and treatment of this condition should be a higher priority for government bodies working to improve community health. The study conducted by the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney found moderate to severe obstructive [...]
It has long been known that aging is associated with a reduced capacity for sleep. Now, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have shown that when older people are asked to stay in bed during 16 hours of darkness, they sleep only about 7.5 hours compared to the 9 hours that younger people sleep [...]
New research from the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School finds that sleep inertia, the grogginess and impaired cognitive performance experienced upon awakening from sleep, is much stronger when awakening during the biological night as compared to during the biological day. The findings have implications for people [...]
Sleep-disordered breathing (also known as sleep apnea) is associated with an increased risk of death, according to new results from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort, an 18-year observational study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. Researchers found that adults (ages 30 to 60) with sleep-disordered breathing [...]
For the first time, researchers have found that following a night’s sleep, emotional components of scenes are remembered at the expense of neutral components. In contrast, memories of both emotional and neutral components decayed equally following 12 hours of wakefulness. Sleep also promoted memory for generality over detail, says NIMH grantee Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., of [...]
Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative quantitative analysis, signal-processing technology and computer algorithms to work in the sleep lab. One of their recent findings is that a new approach to analyzing sleep fragmentation appears to distinguish fibromyalgia patients from healthy controls. Joseph [...]
Patients who experience a range of ear, nose, and throat-related health problems exhibited a greater prevalence of depression than is observed in the general population, says new research presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting %26amp; OTO EXPO in Chicago, IL. In any given one-year [...]
This study is the first to analyze both hormonal and autonomic responses in metastatic breast cancer patients suffering from insomnia. Westchester, Ill. –A study in the October 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a significant predictor of insomnia in women with breast cancer and confirmed [...]
