Tag: Sleep
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Headache or sore all over after bad night’s sleep?
Newly identified chemical link between chronic pain, sleep loss could help sever vicious cycle
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Not getting enough sleep? That’s only half the battle.
Researchers find regularity also plays key role in long-term health and daily performance.
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Consulting Dr. YouTube
New study highlights the prevalence of misinformation among popular YouTube videos addressing sleep health.
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Lack of sleep will catch up to you in more ways than one
Experts highlight the health and memory effects, offer suggestions for countering environmental disruptions.
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Lifestyle influences long COVID risk
Findings suggest that simple lifestyle changes, such as having adequate sleep and maintaining a healthy body weight could prevent long COVID symptoms.
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Why we remember — and forget. And what we can do about it
Authors Andrew Budson and Elizabeth Kensinger offer insights on how to keep both a healthy brain and a strong memory.
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Alcohol, sleep, and politics
A new BIDMC study suggests that divisive political events like elections can negatively affect one’s sleep and emotional well-being.
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Parents are so wrong about teenage sleep and health
Harvard-affiliated study upends common myths around melatonin, weekends, school start times.
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Brain practices new tasks while we sleep
Researchers look at “replay” during sleep, which is theorized to be a strategy the brain uses to remember new information.
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Researchers find sleep benefit in higher dose of melatonin
In a small study of healthy adults aged 55 and older, 5 mg of melatonin increased total sleep time compared to a placebo.
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Siren call of daylight saving must be resisted, scientists say
Research, experience point to cancer link and other risks, suggesting standard time would be better year-round choice.
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How older adults may be doubling their risk of dementia
A new survey found that getting five or fewer hours of sleep in the older adult population was associated with double the risk of dementia.
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Insomnia in a pandemic
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hosted an online forum on “Coronavirus, social distancing, and acute insomnia: How to avoid chronic sleep problems before they get started.”
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Sleep, heart disease link leads from brain to marrow
New research from Massachusetts General Hospital traces a previously unknown pathway from poor sleep to an increase in the fatty plaques that line blood vessels in atherosclerosis, a key feature of cardiovascular disease.
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Countering college’s culture of sleeplessness
Harvard’s Class of 2022 will have taken ‘Sleep 101,’ an online module on sleep health, before they even hit campus on Aug. 27.
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Probing the sleep-deprived brain
Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, spoke at Radcliffe on the harmful effects of sleep deprivation.
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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.
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Study flags later risks for sleep-deprived kids
Children ages 3 to 7 who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to have problems with attention, emotional control, and peer relationships in mid-childhood, according to a new study led by a Harvard pediatrician.
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Spotting speedy brain activity
Using ultra-fast MRI scans, scientists are able to track rapid oscillations in brain activity that previously would have gone undetected, a development that could open the door to understanding fast-occurring cognitive processes that once appeared off-limits to scientists.
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Keeping an eye on screen time
With parents and kids in back-to-school mode, refocusing on the daily demands of homework, sports, and activities, time spent staring at a screen comes at a premium. Steven Gortmaker, professor of the practice of health sociology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been studying how we have used and sometimes abused…
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Tracking the Sandman
Investigators at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a system to accurately track the dynamic process of falling asleep, something that has not been possible with existing techniques.
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Research to lose sleep over
Will Clerx ’14 studied how going without sleep for long periods affects undergraduates.
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TV a sleep detriment in children, study finds
A study following more than 1,800 children from ages 6 months to nearly 8 years old found a small but consistent association between increased television viewing and shorter sleep duration.
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Huffington’s awakening
Reformed workaholic Arianna Huffington talked about her new book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder,” during a visit to HSPH.
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Multitasking against obesity
Specialists examines the country’s obesity problem from several angles at an HMS-MGH forum.
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The power of dreams
Professor Kimberley C. Patton suggests dreams are “a language of enigmatic parable” that Western culture generally prefers to dismiss. “There’s a devaluation of dreams in the West,” said Patton, something the ancients would have found incomprehensible.