Talk of increasing levels of sleep deprivation in recent years appear to be just that, talk. Or possibly the product of a sleep deprived mind or two…
The fact is that most adults get enough sleep, and our collective sleep debt, if it exists at all, has not worsened in recent times. Moreover, claims that sleep [...]
Are we sleep deprived? Only in your dreams…
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 21 October, 2008 to the comment subset
Get more done by sleeping more
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 to the comment subset
It was really the invention of the electric light bulb that precipitated a decline in sleeping hours since it became possible to stay up till all hours reading or even working.
Add 24 hour television, and then the internet to the mix, and we’re rapidly becoming a sleep deprived lot.
According to a recent study, American [...]
Wake up, smell the coffee
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 13 June, 2008 to the coffee subset
A whiff of coffee may be just as reinvigorating as drinking it, if tests on sleep deprived mice are anything to go by.
A team led by Yoshinori Masuo at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, deprived rats of sleep for a day. When they examined their brains they found [...]
