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Category Archives: Sleep
For Sleep Apnea Patients, a breathing “Pacemaker”
Fascinating: an alternative to the CPAP mask that is an effective (but bothersome) treatment for apnea. Apnea occurs because the body totally relaxes muscles during deep sleep, which lets the airway collapse under negative pressure of inspiration. So this neurostimulator … Continue reading
Posted in Science and Medicine, Sleep
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Ian Parker: The Search for a Blockbuster Insomnia Drug : The New Yorker
A nice article on the efforts to get approval for a new type of sleep drug, based on the orexin receptor that was linked to narcolepsy at Stanford. Ian Parker: The Search for a Blockbuster Insomnia Drug : The New … Continue reading
Brain scans decode dream content
This is some pretty cool stuff. Perhaps in the future people will be able to record dreams and sell them for others to experience, like DVDs. Brain scans decode dream content | Mo Costandi | Science | guardian.co.uk.
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Brain deterioration, sleep woes linked – SFGate
UC Berkeley study links brain atrophy of aging with both poor sleep and poor memory retention. But the question is, does the atrophy lead to both poor sleep and poor memory directly, or does the poor sleep interfere with long-term … Continue reading
Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot | Fox News
Narcolepsy perhaps caused by a swine flu vaccine–this is one scary vaccine tale that has some scientific backing. Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being … Continue reading
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Learning while sleeping: infants do it
At one time there was a mania for learning while sleeping. People played recordings of physics lectures while they slept in hopes of learning during the brain’s down-time. Later science showed that these techniques did not work. There is a … Continue reading
Posted in How Life Begins, Science and Medicine, Sleep
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Running and the evolution of man (Part 2)
I distinctly remember watching Survivor: Africa in 2001 and realizing how vulnerable early man must have felt. The Survivor contestants were sleeping in a traditional african Kraal, which was simply a circular fence of thorny acacia bushes. At night, lions … Continue reading
Running and the evolution of man (part 1)
Exercise builds the brain. Yet more strong theorizing summarized in this NY Times column: Anyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests that we … Continue reading
Sleep and nighttime awakening
Here is an article from the BBC on the naturally bimodal sleep patterns that predominated before artificial lighting kept people up late. A pretty good review, although it doesn’t mention that this was most common in the winter, when people … Continue reading
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Sleep, “energy” and mood
A new study using twitter to evaluate mood over the course of the day reveals that people’s mood rises in the morning, lowers in the afternoon, then rises again in the evening. Hmmm. Where have I seen that curve before? … Continue reading