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Sleep-related Breathing Disorder may Affect Premature Infants

...ition associated with snoring that causes frequent sleep disturbance and intermittent hypoxia, is present in approximately three percent of children and adversely impacts their cognitive development....

Fear of Needles, Greedy Dealer 'saved' Lennon and Ono from Heroin Addiction

...n seeing his son Sean before the youngster went to sleep on December 8, 1980, he might have escaped the deranged fan who shot him outside the couple's apartment in New York. "We were returning from the studio, and I said, 'Should we go and have dinner before we go home?' and John was saying, 'No, let's g...

Children from Low-income Families may Face Sleep Problems

...ys children from low-income families may face more sleep problems than those from middle-class families alt... Professional Sleep Societies (APSS), compared the sleep pattern of 32 boys and 32 girls from low-income families. The children were on an average about 7...

Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study

Chronic sleep deprivation can do more than leave you short-tempe... neurological and behavioural effects of long-term sleep loss have been well-documented, ranging from lowered concentration and hand-eye coordination to poor...

Lack of Sleep Affects Eye-steering Coordination Needed While Driving

A new study has given yet another reason why sleep deprived people should never get behind the wheel,...Mark Chattington found that even a single night of sleep deprivation can impact a person's ability to coordinate eye movements with steering, with instances ...

Medical Students Get Poor Quality Sleep

...d majors are more likely to have poorer quality of sleep in comparison to those with a humanities major, ac...d Epworth Sleepiness Scale. "Sleepiness and poor sleep quality are prevalent among university students, affecting their academic performance and daytime fu...

Boffins Find Link Between Common Sleep Disorder and Hypertension

...uffering from moderate to severe cases of a common sleep disorder called restless legs syndrome (RLS) are ...g hypertension. RLS is a common and debilitating sleep disorder that adversely affects the lives of tens of millions of people worldwide. It produces an in...

Breast-feeding may Protect Against Childhood Sleep-related Breathing Disorder

...o breathe well while sleeping suffer from frequent sleep interruption and intermittent hypoxia that negativ...ng. The most severe form of an SRBD is obstructive sleep apnea. It occurs in about one percent to two percent of children....

Students With Sleep Disorder Symptoms Score Badly in Maths

...ding, and writing better watch out for symptoms of sleep disorders in their kids, for a research suggests t...lts showed that students with reported symptoms of sleep disorders received significantly worse grades, specifically in maths, reading and writing, than stud...

Lack of Sleep can Lead Teens to Smoking, Boozing

...a good nights rest, for a new study has found that sleep deprivation can lead to people to take up smoking ... self-administered questionnaire collected data on sleep patterns, sleep problems, smoking and drinking behaviour, behavioural and emotional problems, life s...

Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship

...ity who is pressured by his fraternity brothers to sleep with a lot of different women and move on, Perrin said. If he were in a romantic relationship, he wouldnt feel as much pressure to have sex with multiple partners. Whereas a woman feels freer to engage in sex within a relationship than outside of ...

Insomnia Affects Job Performance A New Survey

...equently in nurses experiencing difficulty falling sleep (33.80%, p Additional Findings Negative effects ...tly more by nurses experiencing difficulty falling sleep (60.56%, p The proportion of nurses reporting negative effects of insomnia on both health and mood ...

Mood Swings and Late Nights are Signs That Your Teenage Kid is in Love

...o complete questionnaires related to hypomania and sleep habits, and maintain a sleep log for seven consecutive nights, reports the Telegraph. The researchers found that teens in the e...

Extra Sleep can Boost Athletic Performance

A new study suggests that getting some extra sleep before a big game could improve energy and boost a...wo weeks they were instructed to get as much extra sleep as possible. Throughout the study, researchers measured the students' athletic performance in seve...

Research on Fruit Bats

...ng helps survival. "Furthermore, flying foxes dont sleep all day; they often change their positions in the tree and interact with their neighbours. Young flying foxes also make training flights during the day. All these daytime activities require visual capabilities", says Brigitte Muller. In contrast, ...

Suit Filed Against Horrors of Psychiatric Ward in New York Hospital

... a shortage of beds at the ward forces patients to sleep on foam mats or directly on a floor that is often covered with blood and urine. Blankets, pillows and pillowcases are scarce, but when they are available, it's common to find them stained with dirt, urine, blood and lice and reeking of body odor. ...

Breastfeeding and Omega-3 Fatty Acids Help New Moms Fight Depression

...ver, common experiences of new motherhood, such as sleep disturbance, postpartum pain, and past or current psychological trauma, act as stressors that cause proinflammatory cytokine levels to rise, according to Kendall-Tackett. "Breastfeeding protects maternal mood by lowering stress. When stress levels ...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Associated With Slow Wave Activity During Sleep

...lectroencephalograph// (EEG) activity and impaired sleep regulation. A study published in the issue of the ...ith a blunted slow wave activity (SWA) response to sleep challenge, suggesting an impairment of the basic sleep drive. The study, authored by Roseanna Armi...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

A study finds that sleep deprivation can adversely affect a person’s decisi...nings of risky decision making under conditions of sleep deprivation, Vinod Venkatraman and colleagues of Duke University studied healthy volunteers as they ...

Hay Fever Can Send Work Productivity Down the Drain

...as of life, and study participants cited a lack of sleep and a negative impact on their overall health as t...ucts to control their milder symptoms. A lack of sleep and a decrease in quality of life had the greatest impact on a person’s ability to work, regardless ...

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