Sleep

Primary dysmenorrhea affects a large proportion of young women, causing recurring menstrual pain that often disrupts sleep, limits physical activity, and reduces quality of life. Pain relievers are the standard approach, but non-pharmacological options are increasingly of interest. A new randomized controlled trial from Turkey examined whether a 12-week […]

— title: “Lifelong Running Preserves Circadian Health in Older Men, But Young Runners May Pay a Sleep Cost” post_status: draft post_author: 1 post_category: sleep — Kosice — It is well established that circadian rhythms weaken with age. Sleep becomes more fragmented, the daily rest-activity cycle loses its sharpness, and […]

— title: “Sleep Disturbances Raise Alzheimer’s Risk by 40% in 13-Million-Participant Meta-Analysis” post_status: draft post_author: 1 post_category: sleep — The link between poor sleep and Alzheimer’s disease has been studied extensively, but a persistent question has clouded the evidence: does sleep disruption actually cause neurodegeneration, or is it an […]

A Swiss population-based study combining subjective reports with overnight PSG reveals one-third of adults report insomnia symptoms, with women affected at nearly double the rate of men.

REM sleep reshapes semantic networks by combining remote concepts and reducing irrelevant associations, but restructuring alone is not enough for creative insight, a Paris Brain Institute study finds.

The Body’s Broken Clock: How Circadian Disruption May Drive Depression — and Why Timing-Based Treatments Are the Next Frontier More than 300 million people worldwide live with major depressive disorder, a condition the World Health Organization estimates affects 5.7% of adults globally. For decades, treatment has revolved around talk […]

For the nearly one billion people worldwide living with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the standard of care — a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine — comes with an unglamorous reality: roughly half of patients abandon the device within a year. The mask is uncomfortable, the machine is noisy, […]

Caffeine restores social memory after sleep loss, study finds A study from the National University of Singapore shows that caffeine can specifically reverse the social memory deficits caused by sleep deprivation — by restoring communication in a targeted brain circuit rather than broadly stimulating the brain. What they found Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin […]

Sleeping too much after a breast cancer diagnosis? It might be worth a doctor’s visit A decades-long study of nurses suggests that women who sleep nine or more hours per night after a breast cancer diagnosis face a significantly higher risk of death — not because sleep is harmful, but because excessive sleep may signal […]