Each year Santa and his elves and team of reindeer stay awake for days and nights so he can deliver presents to children the world over on Christmas.
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Sleep Deprivation
Dec
20
2010
Santa’s health at-risk by all-night sleigh rides
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Nov
10
2010
Specific brain changes tied to sleep deprivation
Researchers at Allen Institute for Brain Science and SRI International published a study of the effects of sleep deprivation on brain gene expression.
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Nov
2
2010
Extraverts more vulnerable to sleep deprivation effects following social interaction, study finds
A study in the November 1, 2010 issue of the journal Sleep found that vulnerability to sleep deprivation is influenced by the interaction between waking social activity and individual personality traits. Results show that extraverts who were exposed to 12 hours of social interaction were more vulnerable to subsequent sleep deprivation than those who were exposed to an identical period of isolated activity.
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Some 19 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq have migraine and migraine is suspected in another 17 percent. While prevalence of migraine among the U.S. military is well documented, little is known about sleep quality in soldiers with chronic headaches including post-traumatic headache and migraine. A research team from the Madigan Army Medical Center in [...]
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Burning the candle at both ends for a week may take an even bigger toll than you thought. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that five nights of restricted sleep – four hours a night — affect the brain in a way similar to that seen after acute total sleep deprivation.
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Aug
10
2010
Negative effects of sleep restriction may linger even after one full night of recovery sleep
Study is the first experiment to systematically examine the relationship of the duration of sleep dose to the recovery of neurobehavioral deficits from sustained sleep restriction.
A study in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Sleep suggests that a dose of extra sleep on the weekend may be good medicine for adults who repeatedly stay up too late or wake up too early during the work week.
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Research shows sleep deprivation leads to changes in the levels of key proteins that facilitate events involved in the underlying pathology of migraine headaches.
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Some 19 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq have migraine and migraine is suspected in another 17 percent. While prevalence of migraine among the U.S. military is well documented, little is known about sleep quality in soldiers with chronic headaches including post-traumatic headache and migraine. Tweet
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Bright light therapy has significant effects on sleep disturbances associated with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder, according to research presented at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
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