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0800 024 1122Wednesday 17th April 2013
Sleep studies conducted by researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas suggest that melodies learnt by musicians can be enhanced as a result of a nights sleep. This research was conducted amongst 60 graduate and undergraduate students at...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Sleep can help boost musical skills
Friday 12th April 2013
Hearing particular sounds when asleep may help with the consolidation of memory, according to the results of a new German study. The research, carried out on eleven participants, involved playing sounds that replicated the oscillations in brain activity...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Sounds in sleep may help memory
Monday 25th March 2013
A new study conducted at the University of Chicago claims that sleep plays a significant part in the brain’s capability to combine the learning of two brand new tasks at the same time in the same day. Two experiments were conducted using...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Sleep helps when learning new tasks – study
Tuesday 12th March 2013
A study into consolidating memory during sleep has found that the process can be strengthened by the use of a commonly-prescribed sleeping aid. The five-year investigation, primarily by University of California Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Sleep memory assisted by drug – study
Monday 28th January 2013
The potential links between age, memory ability and sleep quality have been studied by a US university, raising the possibility of advancements in the management of sleep disorders in the elderly, along with other related developments. University of...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Age and memory links to sleep quality
Wednesday 9th January 2013
Around a fifth of people in the UK don’t change their bedsheets for a month, according to the results of a new survey. Of the 2000 respondents to the investigation by retailer Dunhelm Mill, some 36% claimed to change their sheets fortnightly,...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Bedsheets hygiene revealed - study
Thursday 20th December 2012
A recently published study found that people who experience rapid eye movement (REM) sleep shortly after a negative incident have superior memory for the emotional experience compared to people whose sleep was delayed for at least 16 hours. The...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: REM sleep enhances emotional memories – study
Friday 23rd November 2012
A hormonal change during middle age has been highlighted as a potential sleep disrupting factor for men, according to a medical report in Taiwan. A team from the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital identified the drop in testosterone – which can happen...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Male ‘menopause’ blamed for poor sleep
Tuesday 30th October 2012
You may regularly be guilty of missing a few hours of sleep whether you just can't seem to dose off that easily or if you were up too late partying the night away. Recent research from this month suggests that even a loss of two hours of sleep...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Missing two hours of sleep can erase your memories permanently
Monday 8th October 2012
When asleep the brain acts in the same way as it does when remembering something, according to the results of a newly published study. The UCLA investigation, which used mice subjects, involved monitoring the areas of the brain that deal with...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Brain ‘remembering’ while asleep – report
Friday 28th September 2012
Back pain is an unfortunately common problem for many of us, and can sometimes happen without an immediately obvious cause. The causes of back pains are not always health-related, but can be due to our sleeping positions as suggested by balance expert...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: How to sleep to improve alignment and help alleviate back pain
Friday 7th September 2012
Sleeping problems may be a sign of Alzheimer’s Disease, according to the results of a new study published this week. In an experiment on mice at Washington University it was found that ‘plaques’ – collections of protein in the...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Poor sleep may ‘predict’ Alzheimer’s – study
Wednesday 22nd August 2012
The memory performance of Parkinson’s disease sufferers has been found to be markedly improved after a good night’s sleep, researchers in the US have found. The Emory University School of Medicine study also underlined the memory impacts...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Good sleep improves Parkinson’s patients memory - study
Monday 20th August 2012
The impact on attention span and memory ability after a night of poor sleep has been highlighted by a new study in India. A project at the National Brain Research Centre in Manesar, Haryana, looked at the performance of mice under controlled conditions...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Poor sleep leads to attention deficit –study
Monday 13th August 2012
Teenagers who regularly get a longer night’s sleep will perform better academically compared to those who experience late nights or irregular sleeping patterns, reports nationalpost.com. The study, led by neuropsychologist Dean Beebe with results...Category: Sleep Research
Read full: Teen sleep importance highlighted - study





