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Harvard Magazine
"Deep into Sleep""While researchers probe sleep's functions, sleep itself is becoming a lost art."
http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/07/deep-into-sleep.html
Journal Sleep
"Multicenter Case-Control Study on Restless Legs Syndrome in Multiple Sclerosis: the REMS Study""To verify the existence of a symptomatic form of restless legs syndrome (RLS) secondary to multiple sclerosis (MS) and to identify possible associated risk factors."
http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?citationid=3607
Journal Sleep
"Brain Structural Changes in Obstructive Sleep Apnea""Determine whether obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) subjects show indications of axonal"
http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?citationid=3610
Journal Sleep
"Predictors of Sleep Quality in Women in the Menopausal Transition""To determine associations between menopausal status, reproductive hormone levels, menopausal symptoms, and poor sleep quality."
http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?citationid=3612
Journal Sleep
"The Cardiovascular Response to Arousal from Sleep Decreases with Age in Healthy Adults""To investigate age and gender effects on the acute blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) response to arousal from sleep in healthy adults."
http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?citationid=3614
National Sleep Foundation
"Sleep in America Poll""Too many Americans are too tired to drive. In fact, according to NSF's recently released 2008 Sleep in America poll, an alarming 36 percent of respondents admit to actually nodding off or falling asleep while driving."
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=huIXKjM0IxF&b=4172327&ct=5394135
New York Magazine
"Snooze or Loose""Overstimulated, overscheduled kids are getting at least an hour's less sleep than they need, a deficiency that, new research reveals, has the power to set their cognitive abilities back years."
http://nymag.com/news/features/38951/
PubMed.gov
"Sleep""To review evidence on sleep and alertness in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) controlling for potential confounding factors."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16676784?dopt=AbstractPlus
Science Daily
"Four Days Of REM Sleep Deprivation Affects Forebrain, Long-term Memory In Rats""Four days' exposure to a REM sleep deprivation procedure reduces cell proliferation in the part of the forebrain that contributes to long-term memory of rats, according to a new study."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080201085713.htm
Science Dailyz
"Older People May Need Less Sleep, Study Finds""Along with all the other changes that come with age, healthy older people also lose some capacity for sleep, according to a new report published online on July 24th in Current Biology."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080724123255.htm
Sleep Research Online
"The Dynamic Topography of Individual Sleep Spindles""Healthy adult non-REM sleep was recorded using 64-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) to image millisecond changes in the scalp topography of individual sleep spindles."
http://www.sro.org/bin/article.dll?Paper&2525&0&0
Sleep Research Online
"Intentional Versus Reactive Cosleeping""Parent-child cosleeping is typically considered by researchers and parenting advisors to be a unitary construct."
http://www.sro.org/bin/article.dll?Paper&2523&0&0
Sleep Research Online
"Stage at Awakening, Sleep Inertia, and Performance""Our purpose was to verify if the differential effect of final stage at awakening varies with the amount of sleep reduction and if this effect goes beyond the boundaries of sleep inertia."
http://www.sro.org/bin/article.dll?Paper&2457&0&0
Sleep Research Online
"Insomnia and Depression: Which Comes First?""The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that, for many people suffering from both depression and insomnia, treating the insomnia successfully without medication can lead the depression to lift as well."
http://www.sro.org/2003/Morawetz/77/article.html
Sleep Research Online
"The Effects of Short Daytime Naps for Five Consecutive Days""The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of short naps (less than 20 min) at noon for five consecutive days."
http://www.sro.org/bin/article.dll?Paper&2345&0&0
Sleep-Deprivation.com
"Treatment for Sleep Disorders""If you suffer from a sleep disorder, getting treatment is important to maintaining good health."
http://www.sleep-deprivation.com/articles/sleep-disorder-treatments/index.php
The New York Times (Health)
"An Active, Purposeful Machine That Comes Out at Night to Play""Scientists have been trying to determine why people need sleep for more than 100 years."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/health/23memo.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin
UCLA Center for Sleep Research
"UCLA Center for Sleep Research""Why do we spend so much time sleeping? What are the neural and chemical mechanisms that produce this state? What makes us dream? These are some of the central issues that confront the study of sleep."
http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/SleepDream/sleep_dreams.htm
UCLA Center for Sleep Research
"Narcolepsy""Although people with the disorder do not fall face-first into their soup as in the movies, narcolepsy is still a mysterious disease. But science has new leads."
http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/cataplexy.php
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