From WebMD…

Want to learn something new? Try getting a good night’s sleep or taking a long nap.
Sleep is now recognized as being critical for learning and memory, and now a new study in fruit flies offers clues as to why.
The research found that, in fruit flies at least, sleep weakens and even destroys existing synapses within the [...]

From ScienceDaily…
A Central Michigan University study has determined that many college students have sleep patterns that could have detrimental effects on their daily performance.
As a graduate student, CMU alumna LeAnne Forquer, now a psychology faculty member at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss., had her own trouble sleeping, prompting her to conduct a study to [...]

From Science News…
A cup of joe or a short nap can fend off normal afternoon sleepiness, but sleeping longer in the morning won’t keep a person who’s already gotten a full night’s sleep alert, a new study shows.
Researchers from the Sleep Research Center at Loughborough University in England tested 20 healthy young adults for daytime [...]

From Scientific American…
Let’s do some sleep math. You lost two hours of sleep every night last week because of a big project due on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, you slept in, getting four extra hours. Come Monday morning, you were feeling so bright-eyed, you only had one cup of coffee, instead of your usual [...]

From OrdinaryComics.com.
Visit the WesWELL website here for more information on sleep hygiene and disorders.

From Her Active Life…
If you have ever woken up only to feel like you never closed your eyes at all, then you know the feeling of wanting to crawl back under the covers and snuggle your head into your ever-so-soft pillow.
But, unfortunately, sleeping in like you did as a kid – oh the days of [...]

It’s that time of the semester when sleep seems to become even more prized than usual in the effort to get it all done. But being sleep deprived can actually reduce your productivity, in spite of our perception that skipping sleep gives us the precious time we need. MedBroadcast offers this take on it:
Some people [...]

From CNN.com & Health Magazine… 
Must. Stay. Awake. Yes, it’s the 3 o’clock mantra. And who hasn’t mumbled it while fighting off midday yawns and drooping eyes?
Fatigue and flagging energy seem to be epidemics, especially among women who burn the candle at both ends (and who doesn’t?). Instead of moping, pump up your mojo with these [...]

From WebMD…
Ah, sweet sleep. We seem to get too little. Now researchers are finding that too much or too little sleep could lead to unhealthy weight gain.
Researchers at Laval University in Quebec looked at 276 people for six years who were part of a larger Canadian study. 
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Sleep duration was determined from a questionnaire [...]

From Scientific American…
Sleep is such a fundamental biological drive that it’s shared by practically every species, from fruit flies to humans. Indeed, sleep is so essential that animals will die as quickly from sleep deprivation as they will from food deprivation. And yet despite such alarming evidence (not to mention all the things your mother [...]