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Researchers find red hot Super Fruit aids sleep in older adults LANSING, Mich., July 12, 2010 – Drinking tart cherry juice daily could help reduce the severity of insomnia and time spent awake after going to sleep, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food1. A team of University of Pennsylvania, [.… |
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Hasbro Children’s Hospital study finds improvements in adolescent sleep, mood and behavior PROVIDENCE, RI – A pilot study conducted in a small private high school confirms what many have been touting for years: the benefits of a delayed school start time. Judy Owens, MD, a sleep expert with Hasbro Children’s Hos… |
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Have a lot to do? A good night’s sleep will help you remember, study finds… When it comes to executing items on tomorrow’s to-do list, it’s best to think it over, then “sleep on it,” say psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis. People who sleep after processing and storing a memory carry out their … |
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Ventus Medical, maker of the PROVENT Sleep Apnea Therapy device, released additional data supporting the clinical efficacy of the product. Results from two clinical trials were presented at SLEEP 2010. James K. Walsh, PhD, executive director of the Sleep Medicine and Research Center at St. Luke’s Hospital in St Louis, r… |
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Journeys across several time zones make our internal body clocks go haywire. We feel exhausted and tense, and our sleep pattern is out of synch. As scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry have now succeeded in demonstrating for mice, the clocks associated with individual organs in the body adapt to th… |
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Clinical results from a Phase IIb study showed that MK-4305, Merck’s investigational dual orexin receptor antagonist, was significantly more effective than placebo (p |
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LOS ANGELES (June 23, 2010) – Reporting at the American Headache Society’s 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles this week, new research shows that sleep deprivation leads to changes in the levels of key proteins that facilitate events involved in the underlying pathology of migraine. Paul L. Dunham, Ph.D. and… |
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Alcohol abuse is highly disruptive of circadian rhythms, which refers to the timing of daily rhythms. A new animal study has used hamsters to test for the influence of wheel-running on alcohol intake. Results indicate that exercise, perhaps through stimulation of brain reward pathways, may be able to reduce alcohol intake in … |
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Setting bedtime rules encourages the healthy development of preschool-aged children. An abstract presented at SLEEP 2010 shows children who had a regular bedtime scored higher on language, reading and math assessments. Earlier bedtimes were linked to higher scores in most of the developmental measures. Children who slept less… |
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Among abstracts highlighted at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 46th Annual Meeting, a randomized, controlled study examining the value of yoga designed specifically for cancer survivors found that a 4-week yoga program helped them sleep better and experience less fatigue, and improved their quality of life. &… |
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