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• Study of teen sleep disorder and depression flawed, say local experts.
• The study also reported that teenage girls have a higher risk of depression from sleep deprivation than boys.
• Teens are getting fewer hours of sleep as they develop, suggests a new study, and this is fueling symptoms of depression and low self-esteem. But a Halifax sleep expert and a guidance counsellor are asking, Is this new? And aren't teens supposed to be moody?.
• A new study linking sleep deprivation in teens with higher rates of depression is not news at all, and moreover had questionable research methods, say a researcher in sleep disorder and a high school guidance counsellor.
• It found that teens' average time of sleep decreased over time, with a coincidental increase in symptoms of depression and low self-esteem.
• Besides sleep, they include pressures to:.
• Rachel Morehouse, an expert in sleep disorders and circadian rhythms at Dalhousie University. "As with other age groups with depression, teens aren't immune to how sleep affects mood. ...
• But she found that teens aged 11 to 14 were getting seven hours of sleep or less, when the ideal should be nine.
• Rhodes attributed less sleep to more homework, staying up emailing friends, more extra-curricular activities -- and less parental control over bedtime.
• However, Rhodes had no control group of teens who got a full night's sleep with whom she could compare the results. ...
• "These teens are sleeping less than who? They're more depressed than who?".
• Rhodes also concluded that schools should consider starting the day later to give teens more sleep time, something Morehouse agrees with.
• "Sleep is a serious public health issue, like drinking and driving or doing drugs," Rhodes said. ...
• Globe and Mail: Sleep deprivation leaves teens prone to depression, study says .

• Long Working Hours and Less Sleep may Double Heart Attack Risk.
• Men that work 60 or more hours a week and do not get regular sleep may double the risk of having a heart attack, according to a new report published in the July issue of the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. ...
• All the men completed a questionnaire detailing their weekly working hours, number of days off, and daily hours of sleep within the past month and over the past year. ...
• The study found longer working hours were associated with fewer days off and shorter amounts of sleep, including more days with five hours of sleep or less for both groups of men. But the men who had experienced a heart attack worked significantly longer, slept less, and slept for five or fewer hours a night significantly more often than the men in the comparison group. ...
• An average night’s sleep of five or fewer hours, and for two nights of the working week, was associated with a doubling, and even, tripling, of the risk. Frequent lack of sleep and fewer days off in the preceding month also significantly increased the chances of having a heart attack, and more so than equivalent events in the past year. The authors suggest that sleep deprivation and lack of rest in the very recent past may act as triggers. ...
• Overtime and lack of sleep affect heart health in that they can increase blood pressure and heart rate while chronic stress may induce abnormalities in heart function. ...
• Those who work longer should make sure they get sufficient sleep and have at least two days rest a month. ...

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• How Much Sleep Does Your Child Need?.
• Below are some general guidelines as to how many hours of sleep the average child requires at various ages. Of course, every child is different — some need more or less sleep than others.
• Nighttime Sleep.
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• Total Sleep.
• Keep in mind that most children need lots of sleep. Often, if a child has poor sleep habits or refuses to go to bed before 11 o'clock at night, his parents will think that he just doesn't need a lot of sleep. That's probably not true — in fact, it's likely that such a child is actually sleep-deprived. ...
• If you answered "yes" to any of these, your child may be getting less sleep than he needs. To change this pattern, you'll need to help him develop good sleep habits and set an appropriate bedtime. That way, you can make sure he gets all the sleep he needs.
• Children in nursery and infant school still need up to 10 or 11 hours of sleep a night, but that amount will gradually decrease. By the time he's a teenager, your child will need only about nine or 10 hours of sleep per night.
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• I sleep, but my heart waketh.
• Strange… I was going to title this post To sleep, perchance to dream (Shakespeare) and I find that Burningbird got there before me. ... Seems like Bb needs to sleep:.
• All I’ve wanted to do for the past few weeks is sleep. ...
• Woke up feeling rested after a solid six hours of sleep. (Anyone else ever hear that theory that you should sleep in blocks three hours? Something having to do with circadian rhythms, or some other nonsense that I failed in biology. ... Supposedly, if you can’t get nine hours, you should only sleep six. And if you can’t get six, you should only sleep three. ...
• You should sleep in 90 minute blocks. I know it’s true for me and I’ve tested the theory over the years whenever the topic of sleep comes up in conversation by asking people what time they normally wake up after going to sleep without setting an alarm. ...
• You’d have been far better off waking up at the end of the previous block—even though you’d have had “less sleep. ...
• Studies show that the length of sleep is not what causes us to be refreshed upon waking. The key factor is the number of complete sleep cycles we enjoy. Each sleep cycle contains five distinct phases, which exhibit different brain-wave patterns. For our purposes, it suffices to say that one sleep cycle lasts an average of 90 minutes: 65 minutes of normal, or non-REM (rapid eye movement), sleep; 20 minutes of REM sleep (in which we dream); and a final 5 minutes of non-REM sleep. The REM sleep phases are shorter during earlier cycles (less that 20 minutes) and longer during later ones (more than 20 minutes).

• Sleep deprivation may be undermining teen health .
• Lack of sufficient sleep--a rampant problem among teens--appears to put adolescents at risk for cognitive and emotional difficulties, poor school performance, accidents and psychopathology, research suggests. ...
• In adults, such meager sleep allowances are known to affect day-to-day functioning in myriad ways. In adolescents, who are biologically driven to sleep longer and later than adults do, the effects of insufficient sleep are likely to be even more dramatic--so much so that some sleep experts contend that the nation's early high-school start times, increasingly common, are tantamount to abuse.
• "Almost all teen-agers, as they reach puberty, become walking zombies because they are getting far too little sleep," comments Cornell University psychologist James B. Maas, PhD, one of the nation's leading sleep experts. ...
• There can be little question that sleep deprivation has negative effects on adolescents. ...
• Insufficient sleep has also been shown to cause difficulties in school, including disciplinary problems, sleepiness in class and poor concentration. ...
• "You can be giving the most stimulating, interesting lectures to sleep-deprived kids early in the morning or right after lunch, when they're at their sleepiest, and the overwhelming drive to sleep replaces any chance of alertness, cognition, memory or understanding. ...
• Recent research has also revealed an association between sleep deprivation and poorer grades. ... Carskadon, PhD, of Brown University Medical School, found that students who reported that they were getting C's, D's and F's in school obtained about 25 minutes less sleep and went to bed about 40 minutes later than students who reported they were getting A's and B's.
• Compared with students whose schools maintained earlier start times, students with later starts reported getting more sleep on school nights, being less sleepy during the day, getting slightly higher grades and experiencing fewer depressive feelings and behaviors.
• Also troubling are findings that adolescent sleep difficulties are often associated with psychopathologies such as depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• This research, combined with studies showing widespread sleep deprivation among teens, has propelled efforts to educate children and adults about the importance of a good night's sleep and to persuade schools to push back high-school starting times.
• "There is substantial evidence that the lack of sleep can cause accidents, imperil students' grades and lead to or exacerbate emotional problems," says U. ...
• The research has also spurred further investigations into why teens need extra sleep, the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition, emotion regulation and psychopathology, and the long-term consequences of chronic sleep deprivation.

• home | News 4 Your HealthEmail This Story |  Print This Story Less Sleep Linked To Longer Life.
• Study: People Live Longest With Seven Hours Of Sleep .
• Getting eight hours of sleep might not be your best bet after all, according to a new study. ...
• Research published in Friday's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests adults live longer if they get six or seven hours of sleep each night, not eight. ...
• SLEEP Sleep Statistics.
• Sleep Myths.
• How Much Sleep Do You Get?.
• Do You Take Naps? STUDY Less Sleep Better?.
• Sleep Tips For Children.
• Why Sleep Is So Important .
• 5 hours -- or less than about four hours -- nightly. ...
• Even those with as little as five hours sleep lived longer than participants with eight hours or more per night, according to the study, which was conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society. ...
• Although the study found the highest mortality rates with long-duration sleep, the study could not explain the causes or reasons for this association. ...
• "We don't know if long sleep periods lead to death," said Dr. Daniel Kripke, a UCSD professor of psychiatry who specializes in sleep research. ...
• But people who sleep an average of 6. 5 hours a night can rest assured that it's a safe amount of sleep, Kripke said. "From a health standpoint, there is no reason to sleep longer. ...

• Getting a good night's sleep.
• Getting a good night's sleep.
• Although it is commonly supposed that older people need less sleep than youngsters, insomnia is a particularly common complaint as we age. ... It can involve difficulty in falling asleep, frequent or prolonged periods awake during the night, or early wakening with inability to go to sleep again. ...
• While sedative drugs clearly work, at least while they are being taken, less is known about what is called cognitive-behavioral treatment. ...
• Most had tried sleep medications, and had suffered from insomnia for over 16 years. ...
• Subjects were asked to keep a daily sleep diary for two weeks before treatment, and during the eight-week treatment period. ... They spent three nights in the sleep laboratory before and at the end of treatment; this involved sleeping with head electrodes and cameras to record their stages of sleep and limb movements. Subjects also completed a questionnaire to accompany the sleep diary information. ...
• The cognitive behavior treatment addressed three areas: sleep restriction, stimulus control and education. For "sleep restriction", the time allowed in bed was shortened to equal the actual sleep time. If someone reported an average of six hours sleep a night out of eight hours spent in bed, they were given a maximum period of six hours to spend in bed for the first week; this "sleep window" was altered each week, according to their sleep achieved, based on their sleep diary. ...
• "Stimulus control" was used to persuade one to associate bed with sleep, rather than sleeplessness. Participants were not to go to bed unless they were sleepy, use the bed only for sleep and sex, and to get up and go to another room if they were unable to fall asleep within 15 minutes; moving from the bedroom was repeated as often as necessary. They were to get up at the same time each morning, regardless of the amount of sleep they had had. ...
• "Sleep education" consisted of correcting unrealistic expectations about the need for sleep, fears about the effects of insomnia, and mistaken ideas on how to promote sleep. Also covered were the effects on sleep of diet, exercise, beverages (coffee, tea and alcohol), and environmental factors in the bedroom (temperature, light, windows open, etc). ...

• Effective Sleep.
• Creating a 'Sleep Debt'.
• If You Sleep Less Than Six Hours You Are Creating a 'Sleep Debt'.
• People who sleep for six or fewer hours every night may be accumulating a “sleep debt” that affects their normal cognitive abilities, and they may be so sleep-deprived that they don’t notice their decreased abilities. ...
• According to the study, chronically sleep-deprived individuals said they felt "only slightly sleepy" when performing at their worst during psychological testing. ...
• For people who find that their sleep is routinely restricted, such as military personnel, on-call doctors and surgeons, shift workers and parents of young children, this could result in seriously impaired functional abilities. ...
• Researchers compared the effects of different amounts of sleep over a two-week period on participants aged from 21 to 38 years with participants who had not slept for more than three nights. ...
• People who slept for four hours a night had a decline of performance equal to the subjects who went without sleep for 88 hours. ...
• Researchers noted that the participants’ decline in performance was significant enough to put them at risk while driving or flying an airplane, and would make them less able to multi-task effectively. ...
• Sleep March 15, 2003.
• However, due to the many demands we often face, many of us freely choose to cut back on our sleep. ...
• Previous studies have made it very clear that not enough sleep will increase your insulin levels and increase your risk of diabetes.
• So a gentle reminder: please be sure to get at least six hours of sleep each night.
• It is also helpful to remember that your sleep requirement does change. In the middle of the summer you might actually be able to do well on six hours of sleep or less, but in the middle of the dark winters you might require nine or more hours of sleep each night to optimize your health.
• Guide to a Good Night's Sleep.

• Sleep.
• The need for sleep may be 9 hours or more per night as a person goes through adolescence. ... Teens tend to stay up later but have to get up early for school, resulting in their getting much less sleep than they need. ...
• Many factors contribute to problem sleepiness in teens and young adults, but the main causes are not getting enough sleep and irregular sleep schedules. Some of the factors that influence adolescent sleep include: .
• Parents being less involved in setting and enforcing bedtimes .
• Employment, sports, or other extracurricular activities that decrease the time available for sleep .
• Teens and young adults who do not get enough sleep are at risk for problems such as: .
• High school students who work more than 20 hours per week have more problem sleepiness and may use more caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol than those who work less than 20 hours per week or not at all. ...
• Most shift workers get less sleep over 24 hours than day workers. Sleep loss is greatest for night shift workers, those who work early morning shifts, and female shift workers with children at home. ...
• The human sleep-wake system is designed to prepare the body and mind for sleep at night and wakefulness during the day. These natural rhythms make it difficult to sleep during daylight hours and to stay awake during the night hours, even in people who are well rested. It is possible that the human body never completely adjusts to nighttime activity and daytime sleep, even in those who work permanent night shifts. ...
• In addition to the sleep-wake system, environmental factors can influence sleepiness in shift workers. Because our society is strongly day-oriented, shift workers who try to sleep during the day are often interrupted by noise, light, telephones, family members, and other distractions. In contrast, the nighttime sleep of day workers is largely protected by social customs that keep noises and interruptions to a minimum. ...

• Sleep IQ Quiz.
• Newborns dream less than adults.
• Men need more sleep than women.
• As you move from early to later adulthood you need less sleep.
• By playing audio tapes during the night, you can learn while you sleep.
• Chocolate candies provided on your hotel pillow will help you sleep better.
• A glass of wine before bedtime will help you sleep better.
• A soft mattress is better than a hard one for obtaining good sleep.
• To promote optimal sleep, the best time to exercise is early in the morning.
• A boring meeting, heavy meal or low dose of alcohol can make you sleepy, even if you're not sleep deprived.
• Sleep before midnight is better than sleep that begins after midnight.
• Sleep Research Main Page.

• UNTREATED SLEEP PROBLEMS COMPOUND.
• New National Sleep Foundation Poll Contradicts .
• Commonly Held Beliefs About Sleep in Older Adults .
• Washington, DC (April 1) - While some older adults are very healthy and have normal sleep patterns, frequent untreated sleep problems may be interfering with the ability of many others to cope with chronic medical conditions, according to a poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). ...
• Exploding many common myths that associate poor sleep and less sleep with aging, the 2003 Sleep in America poll shows that older adults typically do not sleep less than their younger counterparts, averaging about seven hours of sleep each night. However, it also finds that some 37 million older Americans suffer from frequent sleep problems that if ignored, can complicate the treatment of a host of common, serious age-related medical conditions, from arthritis to diabetes, heart and lung disease and depression. Poor sleep is also associated with three other problems affecting many older adults: bodily pain, excess weight and ambulatory restrictions, such as difficulty walking or going up and down stairs. ...
• "The 2003 Sleep in America poll indicates that poor health and not age is a major reason why many older people in this country report sleep problems, providing an important wake up call that identifying and treating these sleep problems must be a priority concern," said Richard L. ...
• Marking the Foundation's first effort to look at the sleep habits and patterns of America's older adults—those between the ages of 55 and 84—NSF's 2003 Sleep in America poll finds a direct association between the number of diagnosed medical conditions that older adults report and the quality of their sleep. The more medical conditions, the more sleep problems.
• However, NSF's new poll shows that poor sleep among older adults often goes unnoticed by the medical community. Although the majority of older adults (67%) report frequent sleep problems, only a small fraction (one in eight) says his or her sleep problems have been diagnosed. This means of the 37 million older adults reporting sleep problems, only about seven million have been diagnosed, leaving 30 million to count sheep. NSF is urging the medical community to treat sleep as an integral part of disease management, especially in older patients. ...
• "In spite of the emerging science linking sleep and health, only a small fraction of the many reported sleep complaints of older adults are actually diagnosed and treated," says NSF President, James K. ... "The 2003 Sleep in America poll reinforces the position that sleep problems should not be viewed as an aspect of normal aging, and they can significantly increase the overall burden of illness on patients," Walsh adds. ...

• Oh, for a good night's sleep. ...
• Losing sleep over insomnia? Welcome to the club. People all over the world are sleeping less, thanks to changed lifestyles. ...
• A GOOD night's sleep is a luxury in today's world that seems to be running too fast all the time. How often have you just watched the clock strike two and three, and still been awake wondering when will the blessed sleep come? It can be frustrating when you know you have to be up in a few hours and get ready to face yet another day. With the hectic lifestyles people lead today and the rise in stress levels, it may be hard to just let go and switch off, and just sink into blissful sleep. With new careers in the IT industry that involve bizarre timings and work pressure, sleep is becoming more of a problem rather than a relaxant like what it's supposed to be. Psychiatrist Ajit Bhide says he sees at least five new cases of patients with sleep disorders every month. ... But what exactly is a sleep disorder and how does one know if one indeed has one? "There are very often periods during which one's sleep cycle is disturbed or one is going through a stressful period in one's life, and as a result one has problem sleeping for a few days or weeks. That wouldn't really constitute a sleep disorder, as it is temporary," adds Dr. ... ugh sleep clinics are not such a common thing in India and it is rare to find people actually going to get treated for such a problem, treatment actually works. ... Though it has been dinned into us that we need eight hours of sleep every night, specialists say it is not the quantity but quality that matters. "Some people can manage very well with less sleep. When one wakes up feeling refreshed, that means one is getting enough sleep," says Dr.

• The Scoop on Sleep.
• Don't Let Your Bed Ruin Your Beauty Sleep.
• Sleep is as important for good health as diet and exercise. When we sleep well, our brain re-energizes the body. Without sleep, we can experience memory impairment, mood changes and we can be less efficient at work.
• The stages of sleep.
• There are two types of sleep -- rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM). We begin the night in NREM sleep, which has four stages: stage 1, or transitional sleep; stage 2, or light sleep; and stages 3 and 4, the most restful ones, are known as deep or delta sleep. During NREM sleep, brain activity and body functions slow. ...
• American Sleep Apnea Association.
• American Sleep Disorders Association.
• Better Sleep Council.
• National Center on Sleep Disorders Research.
• gov/nhlbi/sleep/sleep. ...
• National Sleep Foundation.
• (888) NSF-SLEEP .

• This little book tells you about bright light therapy for depression and sleep, how it can be used, and why we need it.
• GOOD SLEEP HABITS.
• Advanced & Delayed Sleep Phase: Bright Light Treatment.
• Good Sleep Habits.
• Since much of this book has been about using bright light to sleep better, it may surprise you that I think many people try to sleep too much.   We are all familiar with the unpleasant feeling of having slept too little, but many of us have not thought about the possible harm of trying to sleep too much. ...
• You may have heard somewhere that 8 hours of sleep per night is necessary to be healthful. ...   Moreover, The Cancer Prevention Study II showed that people who sleep 6. ... 5 hours live a bit longer than people who sleep 8 hours or more. ... 5 or 7 hours of sleep a night, you are probably sleeping enough.
• Studies show that in the range that most Americans sleep (which is 6, 7, or 8 hours or so), there are few discernable differences between people.   This may surprise you, but people who sleep 6 hours seem to be at least as happy as people who sleep 8 hours.   Moreover, people who sleep 8 hours get just as much work done and are just as rich as people who sleep 6 hours.   There may be some tendency for people with the shortest sleep times (5 or 6 hours) to be outgoing and energetic, whereas people with the longest sleep times (9 or 10 hours) seem to be more introverted, imaginative, or perhaps a bit depressed.   Notice the surprise!  People who sleep less are less depressed!.
• , after 2 AM), they actually feel less depressed the following day.   The sleep loss actually helps depressed mood. ...   Wake therapy would be a very popular treatment for depression except for one problem:  people with depression who stay up during the night do get sleepy, and after they sleep soundly the next night, the low mood usually relapses (unless bright light is used).   Evidently, although it is true that people who are getting depressed have poor sleep, it is not true that getting more sleep helps depression. ...

• Title: APSS: Older People Who Complain of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Do Get Less Sleep.
• CHICAGO, IL -- June 11, 2001 -- Older people who complain of excessive daytime sleepiness do get less sleep at night and are less alert during the day than those without such complaints. Data presented as a poster at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, concluding yesterday (June 10), document these conclusions. ...
• Individuals wore a wrist Actigraph for a week and then underwent polysomnography in the sleep laboratory. ...
• Results showed that individuals who complained of excessive daytime sleepiness got almost a half-hour less sleep each night. ... This shorter nighttime sleep was partially, but only partially, offset by an increase in daytime napping. ...
• The authors' previous research has shown that a significant number of seniors who complain of excessive daytime sleepiness in fact have sleep apnea. The present report does not detail any specific sleep disorders. ...

• <<back to home | Health WatchEmail This Story |  Print This Story Less Sleep Linked To Longer Life.
• Study: People Live Longest With Seven Hours Of Sleep .
• Getting eight hours of sleep might not be your best bet after all, according to a new study. ...
• Research published in Friday's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests adults live longer if they get six or seven hours of sleep each night, not eight. ...
• SLEEP Sleep Statistics.
• Sleep Myths.
• How Much Sleep Do You Get?.
• Do You Take Naps? STUDY Less Sleep Better?.
• Sleep Tips For Children.
• Why Sleep Is So Important .
• 5 hours -- or less than about four hours -- nightly. ...
• Even those with as little as five hours sleep lived longer than participants with eight hours or more per night, according to the study, which was conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society. ...
• Although the study found the highest mortality rates with long-duration sleep, the study could not explain the causes or reasons for this association. ...
• "We don't know if long sleep periods lead to death," said Dr. Daniel Kripke, a UCSD professor of psychiatry who specializes in sleep research. ...
• But people who sleep an average of 6. 5 hours a night can rest assured that it's a safe amount of sleep, Kripke said. "From a health standpoint, there is no reason to sleep longer. ...

• 3 — Imagine a pill that would make sleep unnecessary for fighter pilots on long-range missions, or even the high-powered executives and parents of newborns among us. ...
• Scientists are looking at a variety of uses for modafinil, a stimulant that is currently used to treat narcolepsy, a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep. ...
• "It seems to work dramatically," Thomas Scammell, a sleep expert from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston told Good Morning America. ...
• "Even if the drug is safe, it seems dangerous to mess with your body's sleep needs," Scammell said. "Aside from the obvious effects on brainpower, which modafinil does seem to counter, there is evidence that lack of sleep hurts the endocrine system and the immune system. ...
• The Sleep Disorders Center at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago is doing a study to see if it can help those with Shift Work Sleep Disorder, which often hits those on the 10 p. ...
• Though sleep experts acknowledge the drug's effectiveness for narcoleptics, they raise alarms about using it for the average, healthy person who simply wants to do more and sleep less. ...
• Joyce A Walsleben, director of the Sleep Disorder Center at the New York University School of Medicine, said that overall, modafinil is good at keeping people awake without side effects. ...
• "However, none of us wants to suggest that this drug will replace sleep yet, and we are careful to say that at all times. ...
• Sleep research took a big step forward three years ago, when scientists discovered a new family of neurotransmitters called orexins. ...
• David Dinges, a sleep deprivation researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, 16 healthy people were placed in a lab where some were given modafinil and the rest took a placebo. ...
• Staying Sharp in Sleep Lab .
• First, participants had to stay awake for 28 hours to mimic the sleep-deprived state of shift workers, those who alternately work day and night shifts. ...
• The military is spending more than $100 million on similar research, on the rationale that soldiers who sleep less will give the United States a military edge. ...
• Rosalind Cartwright, a sleep expert from Rush-Presbyterian-St. ... Modafinil is also being tested on those with sleep apnea. ...

• Awakening to How We Sleep .
• Cromie Having discovered a gene involved in sleep and a natural hypnotic made in the brain, Harvard scientists are extending these findings to find out what makes us sleepy. ... If efforts to determine exactly how this gene works are successful, they could lead not only to a cure for insomnia, but allow us to get along comfortably with considerably less sleep. This gene is somehow linked to a substance in the brain that produces dreamless sleep in animals. ... After they go to sleep, levels progressively drop off. ... " McCarley and his team at the Harvard-affiliated Brockton Veterans Administration Medical Center are now trying to figure out how levels of adenosine in the brain can be manipulated to guarantee a good night's sleep, rather than a cat nap. ... The rodents take twice as long to go to sleep and sleep 30 percent less than normal mice. "C-fos holds instructions for making a protein that is somehow involved in regulating sleep," notes Shiromani. ... " The possibility of controlling sleep this way raises an intriguing question. Do humans really need 7 to 8 hours of sleep? "The mice without c-fos have difficulty getting to sleep and staying asleep," Shiromani notes. ... If we could manipulate the activity of c-fos, perhaps people could get along with, say, three hours less sleep a night without deleterious side effects. ... "If we could figure out what sleep is doing at the gene level, and mimic that in some way, we might be able to get by with less sleep.

• Sleep-deprived teens run risk of depression By Hanneke Brooymans -- Edmonton Journal .
• Like other teenagers, Obradovic clocks less sleep time than the optimum 9 1/4 hours she should be getting. What she might not know is that this puts her at risk for depression, said Mary Carskadon, a professor and sleep specialist at Brown Medical School in the United States. ...
• Over and over, the link between depression and insufficient sleep in adolescents pops up in research, she Carskadon said. What really bothers her is that teenagers actually know how much sleep they need. ...
• "Sleep is the forgotten country in the modern world," she said. ...
• "I still have yet to hear a teenager brag about how much sleep they had or how early they went to bed," Carskadon said. ...
• Joshua Moxley, 17, tells the same story of sleep deprivation. ...
• They didn't actually have it, but the amount of sleep they were getting caused them to show the same symptoms. ...
• Older teenagers are frequently driven to sleep deprivation by post-secondary ambitions, said Carskadon. ... Sleep gets edged out. ...
• Running around all bleary-eyed doesn't pay off anyway because efficiency and effectiveness slip away from those eluding sleep, she said. ...
• "One of my mottoes is 'less sleep does not always mean more time. ...
•  Sleep-deprived teens run risk of depression.

• home | HealthEmail This Story |  Print This Story Teens May Need Extra Weekend Sleep.
• Many Suffer From Sleep Deprivation.
• Do your teenagers sleep until noon -- or later -- on the weekends? .
• SLEEP Sleep Statistics.
• Sleep Myths.
• How Much Sleep Do You Get?.
• Do You Take Naps? STUDY Less Sleep Better?.
• Sleep Tips For Children.
• Why Sleep Is So Important .
• If so, don't be too hard on them: they might need the sleep, researchers say. ...
• Teenagers need more sleep than they're getting, and sleeping late on the weekends may be a result of sleep deprivation during the week, according to Northwestern University researchers. ...
• Previous research has shown that teenagers' sleeping habits vary from those of adults and children, and many teens suffer from chronic partial sleep deprivation, said Kathryn Reid, the study's author. ...
• "We found that teenagers sleep, on average, 8. ...
• Does your teen sleep late on the weekends?.
• They found that a longer duration of sleep was consistent among all the participants. ...
• Other research has suggested that sleep deprivation in teens may play a role in lower grades and behavioral problems. ...

• Contact: The Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center.
• LESS FUN, LESS SLEEP, MORE WORK -- AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT .
• National Sleep Foundation Poll Shows Americans Living to Work, .
• Not Working to Live; Foundation Urges Americans to ‘Make Time For Sleep’ .
• WASHINGTON, DC, March 27 — A world that "never goes to sleep" offers many diverse activities -- even the possibility of working 24/7, but encourages unhealthy and sometimes antisocial lifestyles for America’s adults. ... Adults report spending less time sleeping, engaged in social and leisure activities, and having sex than they did just five years ago. Most Americans say they suffer from sleep problems and when they go to sleep, many sleep alone — even if they are married. ...
• These are some of the key findings in the National Sleep Foundation’s (NSF) 2001 Sleep in America poll, which looks at the relationship between Americans’ lifestyles, sleep habits and sleep problems. The poll was released today as part of NSF’s National Sleep Awareness Week (March 26-April 1), as most of the nation prepares to lose an hour of sleep this weekend with the arrival of Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning, (April 1).
• Sleep deprivation continues to be widespread in America. According to the NSF poll, a majority of American adults (63%) does not get the recommended eight hours of sleep needed for good health, safety, and optimum performance. In fact, nearly one-third (31%) report sleeping less than seven hours each week night, though many adults say they try to sleep more on weekends.
• This year’s poll also shows that more than one-third of Americans say they get less sleep now than five years ago, and seven in 10 (69%) say they experience frequent sleep problems, though most have not been diagnosed. But respondents say they would sleep more if they believed it would benefit their overall health, safety, and well-being. More than eight out of l0 say they would sleep more if they knew they could be healthier (85%), perform in a safer way and avoid injuries (83%) and could improve their memory (82%). ...
• "The 2001 Sleep in America poll shows good news and bad news," says Richard L. ... "The good news is that many Americans say they don’t want to give up any more sleep in spite of their hectic lives. And they would sleep more if they were convinced it would contribute to their quality of life. The bad news is far too many adults still sacrifice sleep, which is unhealthy and counter-productive. We have our work cut out for us to educate Americans that a good night’s sleep is a necessity, not a luxury. Americans must make time for sleep," Gelula added.

• Sleep Debt Survey.
• Home  >  Sleep Well  >  Sleep Debt  >  Survey.
• 1) Do you get more or less sleep than you need? .
• Less.
• The younger people are, the less well-rested they feel – 63 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds say they get less sleep than they need vs. ...
• 2) Do you think sleep loss is bad for you?.
• But they’re ignoring the third member of the "triumvirate of health" – sleep. They know they need more sleep, but they aren’t getting it. ...
• 3) What is the main consequence, for you, of not getting enough sleep?.
• Less alert.
• Less productive.
• With half the respondents already admitting they don’t get enough sleep in question 1, these results seem ominous. Lack of sleep is leaving millions of people without the energy to work as hard - or play as hard – as they’d like. The problem seems especially severe for seniors: some 61 percent of those 65 and older cited "loss of energy" as a consequence of insufficient sleep.
• 4) How much sleep do you average on weeknights? .
• Less than 5 hours.

• Students are sleeping less; serious consequences loom.
• He gets only three or four hours of sleep each night, habitually staying awake until the wee hours of the morning. ...
• College students across the country are sleeping less and less. ... " The National Sleep Foundation's 2001 Sleep in America Poll shows that more than one-third of Americans are sleeping less now than they did five years ago. ...
• Sabbath, who consistently gets by on as little as three hours of sleep a night, says she tries to avoid her bed, because if she gets into it, she always ends up falling asleep. ...
• She says the lack of sleep is a consequence of being overcommitted and having a lot of work.
• Sleep is usually the thing that goes, rather than my activities. ...
• She gets between five and six hours of sleep each night. ...
• "I don't sleep because I have so many labs and homework and tests to always be studying for," Davis says. ... There aren't enough hours in the night, or day, for sleep. ...
• Sabbath says she thinks there is pressure to stay up studying because college classes have gotten harder, but students are still pushing themselves to get A's and be involved, and they have to sacrifice sleep to do so. ...
• Davis' roommate, Gettysburg sophomore Jillian Benton summed up what she thinks is causing college students to be more sleep deprived: "too many committments, too much partying, too much work. ...
• Robyn Butler-Hall, a psychologist who works with adolescents, says she thinks that less sleep is a result of less life structure and less college activity as "in loco parentis. ...
• She also says more time spent watching TV or playing video games is probably keeping students from getting enough sleep. ...
• Many students who fit the criteria for internet dependence report that they feel their internet use interferes with their sleep patterns, said Keith Anderson, a psychologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ...
• When you add all of the studying to the socializing, it doesn't leave much time for sleep. ...

• Effective Sleep.
• Lack of Sleep May Not Hurt Health.
• Less Than 8 Hours of Sleep May Not Hurt Health.
• A new study suggests that people who sleep 8 hours or more a night, or less than 4 hours, have a slightly higher risk of dying in a given time period than those who get 6 and 7 hours of shut-eye. ...
• However, the researchers note that they can't be sure why some of the study subjects had longer or shorter sleep periods, and there's no evidence that sleep patterns-or changing them-can truly influence mortality risk.
• Some sleep experts, including those at the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), agree.
• Although the study reports data that is of interest, limitations in the study methodology restrict the conclusions that can be reached, particularly about the amount of sleep needed to sustain an individual's health, safety and well-being.
• In the study researchers examined the findings of a previously conducted study that included, among other things, data on the sleep habits of 1. ...
• The study subjects, friends and family members of American Cancer Society volunteers, were interviewed in 1982 about diet, exercise, sleep and health problems and then followed up 6 years later.
• Participants who reported sleeping 8 or more hours or less than 4 or 5 hours a night experienced a slightly higher chance of dying-at least a 15% increase in risk -- within that time compared with those who slept 7 hours a night.
• The study was not designed to answer why sleeping longer may be deleterious or whether people could extend their life spans by sleeping less. It is possible that people who sleep longer tend to suffer from sleep apnea, a condition in which impaired breathing puts stress on the heart and brain. The need for sleep is akin to the need for food, in that getting less than people want may be better for them.
• While agreeing that the risk of dying from reduced sleep is low, he added, "It's hard to know if we shouldn't be worried about five hours of sleep -- if you are talking about being able to drive a truck a thousand miles the next day, being able to concentrate, make important decisions, that's a whole other story. ...
• The average American sleeps 7 hours on weekdays, according to the 2001 Sleep in America Poll (conducted by the National Sleep Foundation). The new study shows that it is quite safe to sleep five, six, or seven hours a night, and people who sleep less than eight hours do not need to worry. ...

• Trauma survivors losing less sleep than they think.
• , December 20, 2001 – After September 11, requests for sleep medications had increased some 30 percent in New York City, while 23 percent of Americans nationwide said they had been suffering from insomnia. But in fact, many trauma survivors sleep much better than they think they do, according to a report in the Dec. ...
• The report, "Sleep Disturbances in the Wake of Traumatic Events," by Dr. Peretz Lavie, an influential sleep researcher and head of the Sleep Laboratory at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, also questions the traditional treatment for traumatized patients, which is based on reliving the trauma. ... Lavie’s studies with Holocaust survivors suggest that learning to leave traumatic memories behind may be more effective for a good night’s sleep. ...
• and on Israel’s population, "one of the world’s best laboratories for sleep studies given the numerous traumatic experiences this population has experienced," said Dr. ...
• Lavie finds that many of the sleep-related symptoms that are considered by some to be hallmarks of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) seem to be without much basis in the laboratory and literature," said Dr. ... Hurwitz, director of the Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School. ...
• Lavie’s studies on patients who complained about sleep problems indicate that "far fewer sleep disturbances are documented than would be expected among traumatized patients. People often confuse fear of going to sleep with inability to sleep, and also have misperceptions about the quality of their sleep," Dr. ... "This is borne out by objective results from our sleep laboratory studies. On the other hand, many studies that show widespread sleep disturbances are based on subjective reports from patients. ...
• Lavie’s findings that reported sleep loss is exaggerated. Researchers at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center used polysomnography (brain wave recordings) to analyze sleep patterns of 28 Vietnam veterans, 18 of whom had PTSD. The 1998 study found that participants consistently underestimated their sleep time and overestimated how long they took to fall asleep. ...

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