A study has revealed that sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) or more popularly known as sleep apnoea carries an increased risk of cancer mortality. The study comes from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health where lead author Dr. F. Javier Neto showed a nearly five times higher incidence of cancer deaths in patients with severe SDB. The participants underwent overnight sleep studies that include polysomnography – an all-night recording of sleep and breathing – and many other tests at fo
As many continue to wonder if there is a way to control one’s dreams, the DREAM: ON app may be something to check out. Although it is still in the experimental stages, you have to wonder if there is such a thing as being able to control your dreams.
British Psychology Professor Richard Wiseman is doing a research on such and is collaborating with Yuza to do it. With the hopes of recruiting about 10,000 participants, his experiment aims to find
The state of mind or at least the things that are taught can be existent in our subconscious selves. That is what we all believed in and until now, there was no real scientific evidence to back it up. But thanks to some sleep researchers over at France’s Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, a breakthrough may yet back it up, all on video at that.
They came up with a straightforward test to do the trick. They would teach a motor task to sleepwalkers and people with sleep behavior disorders, who typically move their bodies in tandem with dreams. If test subjects repeated the mot
You can add another problem that you may encounter if you sleep poorly with rheumatoid arthritis. It seems that a study has proven that people who suffer from poor sleep are likely to suffer from RA or rheumatoid arthritis mainly due to pain and fatigue symptoms.
The study came from the University of Pittsburgh where based on information shared by patients, researchers found that 61 percent of participants were poor sleepers and 33 percent reported pain that disturbed their sleep at least three times
Depending on how you feel about consuming alcohol and its relation to sleep disorders, a study shows that it doesn’t have any bearing at all. This was bared by the folks over at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Additionally, the people who use alcohol to sleep may eventually find themselves as hazardous drinkers. While these findings do seem a bit broad since they were based on participants’ self reports of alcohol use and sleep issues, at least heavy drinkers can be w
In what has to be an odd competition of sorts, Spain is holding its first national siesta championships in Madrid to determine who is the best napper there is to date. Napping is of course associated on how people (probably workers) who can easily take a snooze when break time comes.
Participants are monitored as they lie on bright blue sofas in the middle of a shopping mall for a 20-minute nap. Pulse monitors are attached to their bodies where a maximum of 20,000 points will be awarded to the
Here is a special contest that should capture your fancy. Nautica is holding a contest where a lucky winner gets to take home a Susan G. Komen “Sleep in For the Cure” bath robe. This actually a fundraiser of sorts for the breast cancer research.
Some people are too ill, are caring for a loved one, or simply have to work on race
It certainly does help to carry something even in naps or sleeping and now a study from the Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia proves that dreams can be a good boost to the learning curve. It has always been believed that sleeping after a learning task can help them perform better, something that may be attributed to being able to relax and recalling the last things you did prior to dozing off.
To test their theory, the researchers taught people how to locate a speci
It seems that sleepless nights may be tied up with how much you weigh and eat and this issue will be tackled at this year’s National Sleep Awareness Week to be held from March 7 to 13. Health benefits will be among the topics which include proper rest and surprisingly, weight control.
There are two appetite-controlling hormones which contribute to the loss of sleep. Not only are you hungry in one sleep study, the participants’ desire for high-calorie,
Healthy or not, adults do sleep less when they become older. And while you may think this would result in them putting their health at risk, guess again. In fact, they are less likely to feel tired as a study showed. The study was published in SLEEP, the official journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.
The length of time that people slept varied in age. For example, elders aged 66 to 83 slept about 20 minutes less than middle-aged adults aged 40 to
