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April 27, 2025

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Young Adults and Rise in Dry Eye Disease

Apr. 25, 2025 — Researchers have called for more advice to be given to young people about preventing dry eye disease, after a study found that 90% of participants had at least one sign of the condition in their ...

Adolescents Who Sleep Longer Perform Better at Cognitive Tasks

Apr. 22, 2025 — Adolescents who sleep for longer -- and from an earlier bedtime -- than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers have shown. But the study of adolescents in the US also showed that even ...

Insomnia and Sleep Medication Use Connected to Disability in Older Adults

Apr. 18, 2025 — For adults over the age of 65, higher levels of both insomnia symptoms and sleep medication use were associated with higher risk of disability a year later, according to a new ...

Sleep Matters: Duration, Timing, Quality and More May Affect Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Apr. 14, 2025 — Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, daytime functioning and self-reported sleep satisfaction, and addressing ...

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Stress, Depression Factor Into Link Between Insomnia, Heavy Drinking

Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study suggests that perceived stress and depression factor into the relationship between insomnia and hazardous drinking -- perhaps not a surprise. But because the relationship between insomnia ...

Medicinal Cannabis Is Linked to Long-Term Benefits in Health-Related Quality of Life, Study Finds

Apr. 2, 2025 — Patients prescribed medicinal cannabis in Australia maintained improvements in overall health-related quality of life (HRQL), fatigue, and sleep ...

Eating Only During the Daytime Could Protect People from Heart Risks of Shift Work

Apr. 8, 2025 — Numerous studies have shown that working the night shift is associated with serious health risks, including to the heart. However, a new study ...

New Study Links Lower Proportions of Certain Sleep Stages to Brain Changes Associated With Alzheimer's Disease

Mar. 31, 2025 — New research reveals that lower proportions of specific sleep stages are associated with reduced brain volume in regions vulnerable to the ...

Sleepier During the Day? For Some Older People, It's Linked to Twice the Dementia Risk

Mar. 19, 2025 — For women in their 80s, experiencing increasing sleepiness during the day over a five-year period is associated with double the risk of developing ...

Why Are Night Owls at Greater Risk of Depression?

Mar. 19, 2025 — Mindfulness, total sleep quality, and alcohol consumption may help explain why people who stay up late have a greater risk of depression, according to a new ...

New AI Model Analyzes Full Night of Sleep With High Accuracy in Largest Study of Its Kind

Mar. 17, 2025 — Researchers have developed a powerful AI tool, built on the same transformer architecture used by large language models like ChatGPT, to process an ...

Blood Test Shows Promise for Early Detection of Dementia

Mar. 11, 2025 — For people with a certain sleep disorder, a simple blood test could help predict the development of dementia years before symptoms appear, a new study indicates. Idiopathic REM sleep behavior ...

Exercise and Healthy Eating Behavior Together Provide the Best Protection Against Cardiovascular Diseases

Mar. 5, 2025 — Researchers have found that women who exhibit disturbed eating behaviors and engage in low physical activity tend to have more central body fat and a ...

GIFs Helping Footballers to Sleep Better

Mar. 7, 2025 — A recent study has found that short animations known as GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format) can improve the sleep of professional female ...

Bad Sleep Harms Old-Age Memory by Disrupting the Brain's 'Waste Removal System'

Mar. 10, 2025 — Poor sleep among older adults is linked to disruptions in the brain's 'waste removal system', according to researchers. A recent study offers valuable insight into how sleep quality ...

When You Get Hurt Matters: Circadian Rhythms Affect Muscle Repair

Mar. 5, 2025 — The body's internal clock doesn't just dictate when we sleep -- it also determines how quickly our muscles heal. A new study in mice suggests that muscle injuries heal faster when they ...

Sleep Patterns May Reveal Comatose Patients With Hidden Consciousness

Mar. 3, 2025 — Overnight bursts of brain waves seen in normal sleep can help doctors predict which unresponsive patients hospitalized with acute severe brain injuries will awaken and eventually ...

Morning Blue Light Therapy Improves Sleep and Daily Activity in Older Adults

Feb. 25, 2025 — Blue-enriched light can improve sleep quality and daily activity in older adults living at home, according to new research. Researchers found that this type of light therapy led to greater daytime ...

Impacts of Workplace Bullying on Sleep Can Be 'Contagious' Between Partners

Feb. 21, 2025 — Workplace bullying affects not only the employee's sleep but their partner's too, according to new research published ...

Biological Clock Plays Critical Role in Driving Teens' Late-Day Eating Habits

Feb. 17, 2025 — The causes of obesity are complex and influenced by many factors. While research has highlighted connections between sleep, eating patterns and weight gain, scientists remain uncertain of the role of ...

Research in Fruit Flies Pinpoints Brain Pathways Involved in Alcohol-Induced Insomnia

Feb. 6, 2025 — Research in fruit flies has identified specific groups of cholinergic brain cells that are involved in alcohol-induced insomnia. This work could ultimately lead to targeted treatments for ...

Positive Emotions Plus Deep Sleep Equals Longer-Lasting Perceptual Memories

Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered how perceptual memories linked to positive emotions, such as joy or happiness, are strengthened during sleep. The study could help scientists understand the neurological ...

'Sleep Hygiene': How FIFO Workers Can Get a Better Night's Sleep

Jan. 29, 2025 — Better sleep hygiene could see fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) mining shift workers get a better night's sleep, new research has ...

Young Adults More Active After Starting Work, but Sleep Less -- Unless Working from Home

Jan. 27, 2025 — When young adults start working, the amount of daily physical activity they do increases sharply, only to fall away again over the new few years, while the amount of sleep they get falls slightly, ...

Delayed REM Sleep Could Be an Early Sign of Alzheimer's

Jan. 27, 2025 — Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and the amount of sleep we get may influence our risk of developing Alzheimer's ...

What Drives Mood Swings in Bipolar Disorder? Study Points to a Second Brain Clock

Jan. 27, 2025 — A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body's natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between mania and depression, according to new research. A new study marks a ...

Infant Mortality Rates Declining, but Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Is on the Rise

Jan. 27, 2025 — Infant mortality in the United States decreased by 24.2% between 1999 and 2022. However, mortality rates from Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) rose significantly -- by 11.8% -- from 2020 to ...

Researchers Track Sharp Increase in Diagnoses for Sedative, Hypnotic and Anxiety Use Disorder in Young Adults

Jan. 23, 2025 — The prevalence of diagnosed disorders from recurrent use of sedative, hypnotic and anti-anxiety medications in adolescents and young adults has increased sharply since 2001, according to researchers. ...

A Way for Smartwatches to Detect Depression Risks

Jan. 22, 2025 — A international research team developed a digital biomarker for predicting symptoms of depression based on data collected by ...

Telephone Therapy Reduces Fatigue Interference With Activities, Mood and Cognition for Metastatic Breast Cancer Survivors

Jan. 21, 2025 — A clinical trial demonstrates the effectiveness of telephone-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in reducing fatigue's interference with functioning and improving the quality of ...

Waking Up Is Not Stressful, Study Finds

Jan. 14, 2025 — Waking up does not activate an increase in the release of the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol does, however, increase in the hours prior to wakening as part of the body's preparation for the ...

Automated Method to Detect Common Sleep Disorder Affecting Millions

Jan. 9, 2025 — AI-powered algorithm can analyze video recordings of clinical sleep tests and more accurately diagnose REM sleep behavior ...

How Deep Sleep Clears a Mouse's Mind, Literally

Jan. 8, 2025 — A good night's sleep does more than just help you feel rested--it might literally clear your mind. A new study shows how deep sleep may wash away waste buildup in the brain during waking hours, ...

Researchers Unravel a Novel Mechanism Regulating Gene Expression in the Brain That Could Guide Solutions to Circadian and Other Disorders

Jan. 8, 2025 — A collaborative effort has shed valuable light on how monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and now histamine help regulate brain physiology and behavior through chemical bonding ...