Dementia Risk Higher Among Older Women With Sleep-disordered Breathing

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Sleep-disordered breathing among older women that leads to deficient oxygenation of the blood (hypoxemia) raises the risk of their developing dementia or cognitive impairment, compared with other older women, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). As background information, the ...

Your body is psyched to ‘fall back’

Friday, November 4th, 2011

We'll get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning, and we'll all enjoy lighter, brighter mornings. That also means longer, darker evenings. Your body doesn't know it yet, but this is going to be awesome. Find more info about Your body is psyched to 'fall back' photos videos pictures. read more

Loneliness Linked To Disrupted Sleep

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

A new US study reports this week that loneliness is linked to sleep disruption: people who scored themselves high on loneliness were also the ones whose monitored sleep patterns were most fragmented. Reporting their findings in the 1 November issue of the journal Sleep, lead author ...

Sleep paralysis more common in students

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

A series of strange symptoms known as sleep paralysis may be more common in college students and psychiatric patients, finds a new review study. But the odds of these weird occurrences happening in the general population are less than 8 percent. Find more info about Sleep paralysis more common in students ...

Feeling lonely leaves you tossing and turning

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

When Elvis crooned “are you lonely tonight?,” he probably wasn’t thinking about sleep. But a study out Tuesday suggests that people who feel lonely don’t sleep as soundly as other people, and it doesn’t make a whole lot of difference whether they’re sharing their bed with someone or not. Find more ...