Tag: memory,
14-05-2010
The energy provided by a strong cup of coffee beats that of a quick daytime nap, according to new research revealed this week. The study, by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looked at the effects of caffeine on shift workers who typically...
Tags: memory, nap, coffee, caffeine, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Coffee-break beats a nap – research
09-06-2010
Dreams are thoughts, images, feelings and sounds that are experienced during sleep. Occurring during REM stage sleep, it is thought that dreams can make up around a quarter of a typical night’s sleep – taking up around two hours. Individual...
Tags: dreams, dreaming, sleep, memory, memory foam mattress, memory foam mattresses
Category: Ergo Flex News
Read: Dreams and Sleeping
24-03-2010
A North East high school has experienced a drop in absenteeism following the introduction of a later 10am start time, reports BBC. Monkseaton High School’s general absence rate has fallen by 8%, while levels of persistent absenteeism have dropped...
Tags: sleep, memory, memory foam mattress, memory foam mattresses
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Late start benefits teens
26-04-2010
A new study from the prestigious Harvard Medical School has found that napping and dreaming can markedly improve memory. The investigation took 99 participants and asked them to work their way through a computer maze. After the exercise was completed,...
Tags: memory, sleep research, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Memory boosted by napping – study
03-02-2010
The brain forms and strengthens memories during periods of rest as well as sleep, according to the results of new US study published this week. The New York University research, lead by Dr. Lila Davachi, looked at the memory recall performance of volunteers...
Tags: sleep memory, memory foam mattress, mattresses
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Memory boosted by rest - study
21-05-2010
A study of newborn babies has found that they have the ability to learn while asleep. The test, jointly carried out by researchers at the University of Florida and Columbia University, was centred around playing beeps to sleeping babies and blowing a...
Tags: sleep research, memory, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: New babies ‘sponge up data’ while asleep – study
25-02-2010
New research into early brain development may shed further light on the importance of sleep for forming memory, as well as the wider reasons why we sleep and why sleep deprivation is so harmful. A team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,...
Tags: sleep memory, memory foam, mattress, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Study strengthens sleep memory link
15-05-2010
Teenagers who regularly miss out on the required levels of sleep are affecting their daily performance in class and even damaging their cognitive abilities, says a new report. Activities such as working on computers, playing video games and texting on...
Tags: memory, sleep research, sleep, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Teens missing out on sleep
