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Maintaining Regular Daily Routines Are Associated With Better Sleep Quality In Older adults

A study in the April 1 issue of the journal Sleep found that the maintenance of daily routines was associated with a reduced rate of insomnia and improved quality of sleep in older adults living in a retirement community. Results of regression analyses indicate that increased stability in daily routine predicted a shorter time to […]

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The Role Of Sleep In Brain Development

Marcos Frank, PhD, associate professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, presented information on early brain development and the importance of sleep during early life when the brain is rapidly maturing and highly changeable, at the 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego this week. (continue […]

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Improves Sleep And Lives Of Patients With Pain

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for insomnia significantly improved sleep for patients with chronic neck or back pain and also reduced the extent to which pain interfered with their daily functioning, according to a study by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers. The study, published online by the journal Sleep Medicine, demonstrates that a behavioral intervention […]

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Losing Sleep, Losing Brain?

Chronic and severely stressful situations, like those connected to depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, have been associated with smaller volumes in “stress sensitive” brain regions, such as the cingulate region of the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory formation. A new study, published by Elsevier in Biological Psychiatry, suggests that […]

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