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Not Getting Enough Quality Sleep Can Spell Trouble As You Age
The Huffington Post We all know that fuzzy feeling you get when you have a sleepless night — where it’s harder to concentrate, get through your day, and keep your eyes open. Now anew study says the...
View ArticleLetter: Later Start Times Can Benefit Community
The Connection To the Editor: To set the record straight, there is nothing worse for traffic than a car crash, and sleepy teen drivers are like drunk drivers in terms of performance behind the wheel....
View ArticleLess Sleep Pushes Your Brain to Age Faster
TIME Researchers find connection between sleep deprivation and a marker of aging brains We know that sleep is important for a host of body functions, from weight control to brain activities, but the...
View ArticleToo little sleep may make children obese, a new study finds
The Washington Post THE QUESTION Might the amount of sleep young children get affect how much body fat they have? THIS STUDY involved 1,046 children. Their mothers reported the children’s daily sleep...
View ArticleSleep Isn’t What It Used to Be, Study Finds
AB C Though closing our eyes and drifting off into unconsciousness is one of the simplest tasks we perform each day, scientists are still trying to unravel why we sleep – and how we can do it better....
View ArticleLet Them Sleep In: Docs Want Later School Times for Teens
NBC Your teenager wants to sleep later and now his doctor agrees. Middle and high school students shouldn’t have to start school until 8:30 in the morning or later, the American Academy of Pediatrics...
View ArticleTed Talk: Why do we sleep?
Ted Global Filmed June 2013 Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we...
View ArticleSleepless in America: School Start Times and Adolescent Sleep Deprivation
Check out Children’s National Medical Center’s Dr. Judith Owens discuss school start times in Fairfax County, VA and address adolescent sleep deprivation on National Geographic Channel’s feature...
View ArticleMost U.S. middle and high schools start the school day too early
Fewer than 1 in 5 middle and high schools in the U.S. began the school day at the recommended 8:30 AM start time or later during the 2011-2012 school year, according to data published today in the...
View ArticlePoor Sleep May Spur College Weight Gain
New York Times As the first semester of the school year reaches the halfway mark, countless college freshmen are becoming aware that their clothes are feeling rather snug.While the so-called freshman...
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