On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...
Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...
Chronic sleep deprivation acts as a systemic stressor, elevating risks for cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysregulation while impairing cognitive function.
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Why we used to sleep in two segments, and how the modern shift changed our sense of time
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something's wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply ...
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The Eight-Hour Sleep Is a Modern Invention. Your Ancestors Had a “First” and “Second” Sleep. What Changed?
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply ...
Tsukuba, Japan—Orexin, named after its role in feeding regulation, is a potent endogenous sleep/wake state regulator and is expected to play an essential role in controlling the cross-talk mechanism ...
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Unfortunately, the best laid plans of our body often go awry. Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition in which a person’s airways become blocked by the movement of soft tissues in the throat, ...
Lewis Mattin is affiliated with The Physiological Society, The Society for Endocrinology, In2Science & UKRI funded Ageing and Nutrient Sensing Network. Sleep is one of the essential physiological ...
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