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New Mechanism For Anxiety Disorders Revealed By Mystery Gene
A novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago researchers report. By testing the controversial role of a gene called Glo1 in anxiety, scientists uncovered a new inhibitory factor in the brain: the metabolic by-product methylglyoxal...

Sleepwalking More Prevalent Among US Adults Than Previously Suspected
What goes bump in the night? In many U.S. households: people. That's according to new Stanford University School of Medicine research, which found that about 3.6 percent of U.S. adults - or upward of 8.4 million - are prone to sleepwalking. The work also showed an association between nocturnal wanderings and certain psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety...

Hazardous To Health - Social Jet Lag
Social jetlag - a syndrome related to the mismatch between the body's internal clock and the realities of our daily schedules - does more than make us sleepy. It is also contributing to the growing tide of obesity, according to a large-scale epidemiological study reported online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication...

New Research Explains How Proper Sleep Is Important For Healthy Weight
If you're counting calories to lose weight, that may be only part of the weight loss equation says a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal. In the report, French scientists show that impairments to a gene known to be responsible for our internal body clocks, called "Rev-Erb alpha," leads to excessive weight gain and related health problems...

Headphones In Intensive Care Unit Help Patients' Confusion And Sleep Patterns
Patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) often become confused or delirious soon after, or within a few days of admittance to the ICU. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care, shows that use of earplugs can result in better sleep (as reported by the patients), lower the incidence of confusion, and delay the onset of cognitive disturbances...

Fatigue May Impact Surgeons' Ability To Deal With The Unexpected
Sleep-deprived surgeons can perform a previously learned task or learn a new task as well as surgeons who are rested, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. However, in sleep-deprived surgeons, the brain must work harder, which could lead to problems during unexpected events...

Genetic Factors Related To Weight Gain May Be Counteracted By Sleeping Longer
Toss out another old wives' tale: Sleeping too much does not make you fat. Quite the opposite, according to a new study examining sleep and body mass index (BMI) in twins, which found that sleeping more than nine hours a night may actually suppress genetic influences on body weight...

Obesity, Depression/Anxiety, ADHD, Asthma Contribute To Fatigue Even After A Good Night's Sleep
Children who have learning, attention and behavior problems may be suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness, even though clinical tests show them sleeping long enough at night, a new study reports...

Plenty Of Sleep Helps Keep You Slim
The more we sleep the less our genes determine how much we weigh, while the less we sleep the more our genes impact - in other words, less sleep can contribute to people putting on the pounds, while plenty of sleep can help us stay slim, researchers from University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle reported in the journal Sleep...

Altering Attitude To An Ailment May Result In Less Day-To-Day Pain
Evidence of a study published in the journal Pain reveals that people with chronic pain who learn to divert the focus away from their ailments may sleep better and experience less day-to-day pain. Research leader, Luis F. Buenaver, Ph.D...

Insufficient Sleep Affects 30% Of US Workers
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 30% of the nation's workers are sleeping under 6 hours a day, which is less than the 7 to 9 hours that the National Sleep Foundation recommends for healthy adults. To assess the prevalence of insufficient sleep among US workers, the CDC analyzed data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)...

Sleep Deprivation And Pilot Performance
Night-time departures, early morning arrivals, and adjusting to several time zones in a matter of days can rattle circadian rhythms, compromise attention and challenge vigilance. And yet, these are the very conditions many pilots face as they contend with a technically challenging job in which potentially hundreds of lives are at stake...

Reduced Activity In Brain's 'Reward Center' Found In Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients
Chronic fatigue syndrome, a medical disorder characterized by extreme and ongoing fatigue with no other diagnosed cause, remains poorly understood despite decades of scientific study...

Circadian Rhythm Disturbances Lead To Brain Cell Changes, May Cause Sleep Troubles In Aging
Older animals show cellular changes in the brain "clock" that sets sleep and wakeful periods, according to new research in the April 25 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings may help explain why elderly people often experience trouble sleeping at night and are drowsy during the day. Like humans, mice experience shifts in daily activities and sleep patterns as they age...

Tinnitus Linked To Insomnia
Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit have found a significant association between the severity of perceived tinnitus symptoms and insomnia. According to the researchers, over 36 million people experience tinnitus - chronic ringing, buzzing, hissing or clicking in the head and ears...