Clik here to view.
“Waking Hospital Patients to Check Vital Signs May Do More Harm Than Good”
“If left alone and allowed to sleep, these patients likely will heal faster and have a better attitude during their hospital stay,” Read about it here.
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 90 minute rule for a good night sleep
You can find a sleep time calculator here. For the science behind the 90 minute recommendation see this paper.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sleep deprivation associated with changes in brain micro-structure
A paper from PLOS , “Widespread Changes in White Matter Microstructure after a Day of Waking and Sleep Deprivation.” From the PLOS Blog: “Neuroscientists from Norway set out to answer this question in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some skepticism on sleep claims
From the good folks at Ask For Evidence. ‘The NHS Choices website claimed that “People who sleep less than seven hours a day are 30% more likely to be obese than those who get nine hours or more of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More evidence that sleep improves memory
From the journal Psychological Science: “Both repeated practice and sleep improve long-term retention of information. The assumed common mechanism underlying these effects is memory reactivation,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Article 0
An interesting paper about school schedules and student performance, published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, “How the Time of Day Affects Productivity: Evidence from School Schedules.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sleep deprived judges hand out longer sentences
This study just appeared in the journal Psychological Science: The degree of punishment assigned to criminals is of pivotal importance for the maintenance of social order and cooperation. Nonetheless,...
View ArticleAutonomic nervous system activity and memory consolidation during sleep
According to a paper published in PNAS, “ autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a role in associative memory consolidation during sleep.” Here is the abstract: Throughout history, psychologists and...
View Article“Aging impairs slow wave-spindle coupling, leading to overnight forgetting”
This story was covered on NPR, but they did not provide a link to the original paper. Unfortunately only the summary is available on line: The coupled interaction between slow-wave oscillations and...
View ArticleAre all evening-types doomed?
An interesting interview with Royette Tavernier of Wesleyan University, about her work on sleep and chronotype: Empirical evidence indicates that US children and adults alike are getting less sleep...
View Article