Sleep Loss Does Not Impact Ability to Assess Emotional Information
Going 24 hours without sleep impacted study participants’ mood but did not change their performance on tests evaluating their ability to process emotional words and images.
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Extra Sleep Didn’t Improve Work Productivity in Study of Low-Income Workers in India
Further work could attempt to change the sleeping circumstances of low-income workers to see if better sleep quality, not just increased sleep quantity, makes a difference.
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LatestWhen Too Little Sleep Is a Good Thing
Examining the positive effects of sleep deprivation leads to new information about how we sleep.
Duke Lemur Center Works to Understand Hibernation
Our closest hibernating relative has gone into true, deep hibernation in captivity for the first time at the Duke Lemur Center.
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Sleep Restriction Impacts Children’s Positive Emotions More Than Negative Ones
Children with greater pre-existing anxiety symptoms showed the most dramatic alterations in emotional responding after sleep restriction.
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Coffee Counteracts Cognitive Impacts of Sleep Loss—But Only For a Few Days
“This study is among the first to examine whether this effect can be translated into a real-world situation.”
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Common Pesticides Reduce Sleep Quantity in Insects
As well as finding that agricultural concentrations of neonicotinoids ruined the flies’ ability to remember, the researchers also saw changes in the clock in the fly brain.
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Workaholism Linked to Lower Sleep Quality
Researchers explore the link between work addiction risk and health-related outcomes using the framework of Job Demand Control Model.
Read MoreSleep Disruption & Depression: Depressive Symptoms Arise in Adolescent, But Not Adult, Mice with Repeated Sleep Delays
Their findings are particularly relevant in the context of a pandemic, when adolescents’ mental health is already under strain.
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Sleep Loss Hijacks Brain’s Ability to Process Threat Memories
In a study’s conditioning paradigm, subjects were presented with three colors, two of which were paired with a mild electric shock.
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Increasing Sleep Time After Trauma Could Ease Ill Effects
The finding holds particular promise for populations that are routinely exposed to trauma, such as military personnel and first responders.
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Sleep Helps Suppress Intrusive Thoughts
Sleep-deprived participants experienced an increase in unwanted thoughts of nearly 50% compared to those who had a good night’s sleep.
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Which Insomnia Patients Might Be at Increased Risk of Dementia?
A new study of middle-aged adults reinforces the need to objectively measure the sleep of adults who complain of insomnia.
Read MoreBedtime Media Use Linked to Less Sleep in Children Who Struggle to Self-Regulate Behavior
A study finds frequent media use before bed in children who struggle to self-regulate predicted later bedtimes and less sleep.
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Why Little Mammals Sleep Longer
Why does the mouse sleep five times longer than the elephant? Scientist have developed quantitative models to explain sleep time differences.
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How Sleep Affects Reactions to Stressful & Positive Events
Study participants reported on their experiences and their amount of sleep in daily telephone interviews over eight days.
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Sleep Restriction Increases Anger
The findings highlight the importance of considering specific emotional reactions and their regulation in the context of sleep disruption.
Read MoreSleep Is Key, But Are You Getting Too Much?
Real Simple shares information on over-sleeping and what sleeping more than 9 hours can imply.
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