Tag: Jeanne Duffy

  • Health

    What’s another hour of lost sleep? For some, a hazard

    An interview with Jeanne Duffy, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a sleep researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on links between sleep and health.

    5–8 minutes
  • Health

    Older adults found to fare better under sleep deprivation than younger adults

    In a recent sleep study testing alertness and performance in sleep-deprived adults, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) determined that healthy older adults handle sleep deprivation better than younger adults. The findings appeared online on May 3, in an advance online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. After an extended period…

    2–3 minutes
  • Health

    Are you an ‘early bird’ or a ‘night owl’?

    Harvard researchers working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that whether someone is a morning person or an evening person depends on a basic aspect of the circadian timing system that is known as intrinsic period. The study was published in the August 2001 issue of “Behavioral Neuroscience. “While some have argued that extremes…

    1–2 minutes