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By Mark Wheeler Nearly 60 percent of the nation’s elderly have trouble sleeping, whether it’s a lot of tossing and turning or outright bouts of insomnia. While for most people sleeplessness can be annoying at best or unhealthy at worst, for elderly individuals who have suffered from depression in the past, poor sl… |
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Too many teenagers are damaging their health by not getting enough sleep and by falling asleep with electrical gadgets on, researchers say. A third of 12 to 16-year-olds asked slept for between four to seven hours a night. Experts recommend eight hours. The Sleep Council, which conducted the poll of 1,000 teenagers, says gadg… |
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To the many problems associated with lack of sleep — moodiness, memory problems, difficulty concentrating — add the risk of developing diabetes. A study from the University at Buffalo shows that people who sleep less than six hours a night during the work-week are 4.5 times more likely to have elevated levels of b… |
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Postpartum depression (PPD) can lead to poor sleep quality, recent research shows. A study published in the current issue of the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing shows that depression symptoms worsen in PPD patients when their quality of sleep declines. Sleep deprivation can hamper a mother’s a… |
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By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lack of sleep can make us feel distracted, foggy and forgetful, and a new study helps explain why. Working with mice, Dr. Robert W. Greene of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and colleagues identified a key molecular mechanism that regulates the brain&… |
