sleep science

And missing just 1-2 hours of sleep doubles the risk of crashing, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
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Health Check: What Determines Whether We’re Night Owls or Morning Larks?
byThe Conversation
About 10% of the population are morning larks, and 20% true night owls.
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Over the past decade or so it has become increasingly clear that disturbed sleep often comes before an episode of depression, not afterwards, helping to do away with the notion that sleep problems are secondary to other disorders.
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Did We Used to Have Two Sleeps Rather Than One? Should We Again?
byThe Conversation
Throughout history there have been numerous accounts of segmented sleep, from medical texts, to court records and diaries
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Why Do You Feel Like You're Falling When You Go to Sleep?
byThe Conversation
You may have to blame your ancestors for those sleep twitches...
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Do Sleeping Dragons Dream?
byErica Tennenhouse
REM sleep has ancient evolutionary origins
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Neuroscientists May Have Finally Pinned Down How the Brain Stores Memories During Sleep
byKelly Tatera
“A central question in neuroscience.”
| 2 min read
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