 Sleep Can Accentuate Positive Memories In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
 03.04.2012 12:00  16573328 views  0 comments
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 Sleep plays a powerful role in preserving our memories. But while recent research shows that wakefulness may cloud memories of negative or traumatic events, a new study has found that wakefulness also degrades positive memories. Sleep, it seems, protects positive memories just as it does negative ones, and that has important implications for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder... Read more »
| Survey Finds Association Between Symptoms Of Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Depression
01.04.2012 8:00 17463489 views 0 comments
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 Obstructive sleep apnea and other symptoms of OSA are associated with probable major depression, regardless of factors like weight, age, sex or race, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There was no link between depression and snoring... Read more »
| Compounds Created That Dramatically Alter Biological Clock And Lead To Weight Loss, Metabolic Changes
31.03.2012 8:00 18394749 views 0 comments
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 Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have synthesized a pair of small molecules that dramatically alter the core biological clock in animal models, highlighting the compounds' potential effectiveness in treating a remarkable range of disorders-including obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and serious sleep disorders... Read more »
| Sleep Deprivation Does Not Disturb Interventionist Performance
30.03.2012 9:00 18311913 views 0 comments
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 A single-center study found that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures performed during the middle of the night do not adversely affect the safety and effectiveness of procedures performed the next day by the same operator... Read more »
| Adjuvanted Flu Vaccine Associated With Child Narcolepsy In Finland
30.03.2012 8:00 19483905 views 0 comments
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 A sudden increase in narcolepsy in Finnish children at the beginning of 2010 was likely related to the Pandemrix vaccine used in response to the H1N1 2009 flu pandemic, according to two reports published in the open access journal PLoS ONE... Read more »
| Memory Consolidation Damaged By Sleep Disturbance
30.03.2012 8:00 18606104 views 0 comments
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 Sleep disturbance negatively impacts the memory consolidation and enhancement that usually occurs with a good night's sleep, according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS ONE... Read more »
| Patients With Sleep Apnea At Risk For Delirium After Surgery
29.03.2012 8:00 26487299 views 0 comments
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 An anecdotal observation of a possible link between sleep apnea and post-surgical delirium has been measured and confirmed by a team of researchers at the Duke University Medical Center. "The association between sleep apnea and postoperative delirium is big news because it may offer us a way to control postoperative delirium which can be devastating," said senior author Madan Kwatra, Ph.D... Read more »
| Sleeping After Processing New Info Most Effective, New Study Shows
27.03.2012 8:00 26365163 views 0 comments
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 Nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is most beneficial for recall, Titled "Memory for Semantically Related and Unrelated Declarative Information: The Benefit of Sleep, the Cost of Wake," the study was publishe in PLOS One... Read more »
| Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Surgery Patients May Not Need ICU
21.03.2012 17:00 26613341 views 0 comments
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 A study published Online First in one of the JAMA journals, Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, reveals that even though patients who undergo surgery for obstructive sleep apnea (a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing) may not require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) after surgery, they should still be closely monitored... Read more »
| Review Of Surgery For Obstructive Sleep Apnea
20.03.2012 16:00 25929725 views 0 comments
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 Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, released an article today, looking at the ramifications of Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea, which is when a person experiences pauses in breathing while they are asleep... Read more »
| Strong Association Between Obesity And Increased Death Risk Tied To Sleeping Pills
20.03.2012 7:00 26339724 views 0 comments
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 Obesity appears to significantly increase the risk of death tied to sleeping pills, nearly doubling the rate of mortality even among those prescribed 18 or fewer pills in a year, researchers reported. "Obesity emerged as a marker of increased vulnerability," said Robert Langer, M.D., M.P.H... Read more »
| Calorie Consumption Likely To Increase With Insufficient Sleep
16.03.2012 7:00 26327164 views 0 comments
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 If you don't get enough sleep, you may also eat too much - and thus be more likely to become obese. That is the findings of researchers who presented their study at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2012 Scientific Sessions... Read more »
| Menopause And 'Brain Fog'
16.03.2012 7:00 26220401 views 0 comments
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 The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, according to a study published in the journal Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society. The findings won't come as a surprise to the millions of women who have had bouts of forgetfulness or who describe struggles with "brain fog" in their late 40s and 50s... Read more »
| Risk Of Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's, Doubled By REM Sleep Disorder
15.03.2012 8:00 26435957 views 0 comments
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 People with symptoms suggesting rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, have twice the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Parkinson's disease within four years of diagnosis with the sleep problem, compared with people without the disorder, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The researchers published their findings recently in the Annals of Neurology... Read more »
| Sleep Apnea Treatment To Protect Against Heart Failure
14.03.2012 20:00 26100898 views 0 comments
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People who experience sleep apnea may have more at stake than getting a good night's sleep. According to an article published in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association, when sleep apnea becomes more severe it may cause changes in the heart's shape and function... Read more »
| Treating Sleep Apnea May Prevent Heart Failure
14.03.2012 10:00 25975289 views 0 comments
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 A nightly breathing treatment may do more than help people with obstructive sleep apnea get a good night's rest - it may also help prevent heart failure. In a study published in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association, researchers in the U.K... Read more »
| Daylight Savings Affects Some People's Overall Health
10.03.2012 7:00 24973316 views 0 comments
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 With Daylight Savings approaching, some are excited for the start of longer and warmer days, while others are only thinking of the fact that this Sunday, Daylight Savings, they will lose an hour of sleep. On Sunday, March 11th, the clocks will be pushed forward one hour, which means everyone will lose an hour of sleep... Read more »
| 'Cyberloafing' More Prevalent After Switch To Daylight Saving Time
09.03.2012 7:00 25290163 views 0 comments
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 The annual shift to daylight saving time and its accompanying loss of sleep cause employees to spend more time than normal surfing the Web for content unrelated to their work, resulting in potentially massive productivity losses, according to researchers... Read more »
| PTSD-Related Nightmares Treated With Blood Pressure Drug Prazosin
07.03.2012 8:00 24601173 views 0 comments
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 Mayo Clinic researchers this week will announce the use of the blood pressure drug prazosin as an effective treatment to curb post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related nightmares. In a presentation during the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry in Prague, Mayo Clinic psychiatrists will present a systematic literature review of prazosin in the treatment of nightmares... Read more »
| Sleepy Pilots, Train Operators And Drivers: National Sleep Foundation Poll Explores Transportation Workers' Sleep
06.03.2012 7:00 24443886 views 0 comments
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The people we trust to take us or our loved ones from place to place struggle with sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation's (NSF) 2012 Sleep in America® poll. It is the first poll to ask transportation professionals, including pilots, train operators,* truck, bus, taxi and limo drivers about their sleep habits and work performance... Read more »
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