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01/28/03 Sleep
and Memory - Are they Intertwined?
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In July, researchers led by Robert
Stickgold, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical
School, reported that a full eight hours’ sleep after learning a motor
task boosts performance by 20 percent the next day. Even a one-hour
nap can improve scores on a simple visual task, others reported in
May.
04/09/02 New
Drug for Narcolepsy
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Mary
Rourke, a 55-year old teacher from Salem, N.H., used to nod off all
the time as a child, but people just shrugged and said, “Oh, she
must be very tired,” she recalls.
Then,
as an adult, she began having attacks in which her muscles would
lose tone and she’d fall– every time she laughed or felt any
strong emotion. “I was constantly falling,” she says. “If you
told me a joke, I’d flip. I couldn’t be around people.”
07/14/97
- So, you're stuck in sleep-loss hell doctors say it may not ruin
your health but it can make your life miserable
- For years now, Allan Rechtschaffen, a psychology
professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, has been watching
what happens when he totally deprives rats of sleep. He takes a
plastic disc with a divider in the middle and puts one rat on each
side. Both rats get plenty of food, and one rat -- the lucky one --
also gets to sleep whenever it wants.
07/29/96 -
Working
with the body's rhythms
- The night belongs to asthma.
If you're one of America's 10 million asthmatics, you may find that
your symptoms vary like, well, night and day, with the odds of an
attack vastly greater in the wee hours -- about 4 a.m.-- than in
daylight.
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Sleep
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