They are long, tedious and dangerous to read if you have a sleep deficit.
Dr. Daniel Hanley, professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in Maryland, told CNN that VS is a coma-like state in which patients have a sleep and wake cycle, and can show reflex chewing, swallowing and blinking, but don't respond to language or stimulation.
For starters, your doc may have you visit a sleep specialist to rule out sleep apnea, a common breathing disorder that wakes sufferers several times a night, sometimes without them even knowing it.
The Nest (covered in branches), the Blue Cone (which is actually painted red) and the UFO (a spaceship skewered by pines) all have enough room to sleep a family of four.
"Exercisers fall asleep faster, suffer fewer middle-of-the-night wake-ups and have a reduced risk of sleep disorders, " says study co-author Brad Cardinal, co-director of the sport and exercise psychology program at Oregon State University.
Maybe we all might have gotten a lot more sleep had we known about recent results of another GRACE satellite study published in the journal Nature that shows that Himalayan glaciers are hardly melting at all.
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Well, you've got to have a -- get a good night's sleep, because no matter where Santa is in the world, he only comes to your house after you're fast asleep.
Because when I was little, I used to have a hard time going to sleep on Christmas Eve, too.
Booth had submitted that he might have fallen asleep due to a sleep disorder, rather than tiredness, before the crash.
Booth said he might have fallen asleep due to a sleep disorder, rather than tiredness, before the crash, but changed his plea after the judge allowed him to discuss the case with his barrister.
With humans, if we get too little sleep, have a poor diet, and take on too much pressure, our stress levels rise and we succumb to ailments our otherwise healthy immune system could easily handle.
Overweight people often have sleep problems -- most notably sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that causes frequent awakenings -- but it's not clear if they're overweight because of their sleep problems, or if their sleep problems result from being overweight.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent: You're not likely to have a doctor ever advise giving the sleep hormone melatonin to your teenagers, but sleep experts tell CNN they've seen a tremendous upsurge in the use of melatonin in kids, by parents.
Their genetics including the genetics of sleep have been studied for almost a century, and many of the genes that play a role in human sleep resemble those that control sleep in fruit flies.
Programmers--sorry, seamen--hired from places like India and Russia would have their own cabins, work eight- or ten-hour stretches on either a day or night shift and have the rest of the time to sleep, play shuffleboard or take a water taxi to shore.
People who have trouble getting a good night's sleep take it, as do those who are badly affected by jet lag.
The 100-hour work week and getting five hours of sleep per night have become a sort of Silicon Valley Badge of Honor.
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It takes away the beauty of the night sky, often disturbs sleep patterns and can have a negative impact on our wildlife.
Recent studies conducted by scientists in Israel showed that even losing an hour of sleep a night can have a noticeable effect on a child's mental performance.
First the team showed that they could use the state of a region of the brain, called the medial prefronal cortex, to predict how much deep, or slow-wave, sleep a person would have.
The al-Qaeda leader's face still looks tired and lined, as befits a fugitive who may well have to sleep in different locations almost every night, but it is not quite as gaunt or exhausted looking as it was three years ago.
The Flex tracks your sleep quality as well, but the approach here differs from other Fitbit products: whereas the Fitbit One and Fitbit Zip have a key you can press to enter sleep mode, the Flex has no buttons at all, so your only recourse for logging sleep is to use the app or website.
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Even those who still have a home to go to are afraid to sleep in it, for fear of violent aftershocks.
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Joe has found that if you want to sleep with a woman you have to spend a lot of time talking to her about her interests.
CouchSurfing connects people who have a spare sofa with travellers who wish to sleep on it, on the tacit understanding that the travellers will do the same for someone else in the network some day.
In some kids, when allergies overwhelm the system, they have more temper tantrums and a harder time getting to sleep.
If they were to have access to the same information you have now on a daily basis, how much less sleep would we all be getting?
The good news is that sleep and exercise already have something of a relationship: Getting enough of one can make it easier to accomplish the other.
"I'll sleep much easier tonight than I would have a month ago for sure, " Rose said.
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