Open Questions: Sleep
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Introduction
Site indexes
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Sleep Medicine Home Page
- "This home page lists resources regarding all aspects of sleep
including, the physiology of sleep, clinical sleep medicine, sleep
research, federal and state information, patient information, and
business-related groups."
Sites with general resources
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National Sleep Foundation
- U. S. non-profit organization "dedicated to improving public
health and safety by achieving understanding of sleep and sleep
disorders, and by supporting sleep-related education, research,
and advocacy." The site contains many articles about sleep
and sleep disorders.
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Loughborough Sleep Research Centre
- Sleep research facility in the UK. The site describes some
of the center's research, offers some
popular articles on sleep topics, and provides information on
sleep disorders such as insomnia.
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British Sleep Society
- "The British Sleep Society is an professional organisation
whose membership consists of mainly medical, healthcare and
scientific workers who have interest in sleep and its medical
disorders. The aims of the society are to improve public health
by promoting education and research into sleep and its disorders."
The site contains some useful
external links.
Surveys, overviews, tutorials
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Sleep
- Article from
Wikipedia.
See also
Sleep disorder,
Circadian rhythm,
Sleep debt.
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Scientists Explore the Mysteries of Why We Sleep
- February 2009 article about the benefits of sufficient sleep
for immune systems, metabolic control, memory, emotional
functioning and learning.
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Sleep and Learning
- Brief page about how sleep helps learning and the consolidation
of memories, by the
Society for Neuroscience.
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Link between body clock and metabolism may help fight
obesity, aging and more
- Brief March 2009 Scientific American article.
"New research pinpointing the link between the body clock
and metabolism may pave the way for scientists to treat an
array of health problems, ranging from diabetes to sleep disorders."
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Can You Catch Up on Lost Sleep?
- May 2008 Scientific American article.
"With some work, sleep debt can be repaid - though it won't
happen in one extended snooze marathon."
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Strange but True: Less Sleep Means More Dreams
- September 2007 Scientific American sidebar, subtitled
"Missing sleep tonight may just boost your dreams tomorrow night."
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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
- May 2005 Scientific American sidebar, subtitled
"What are dreams? Why do we have them? The answers are as
intriguing as dreams themselves."
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Timely Surprises
- July 1998 news article in Science News, about effects
on circadian rhythm of skin exposure to light.
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Chronic jet lag shrinks brains
- May 2001 news article about structural differences in brains
of people who frequently cross time zones.
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Sleep improves memory
- November 2000 news article about research on the importance
of sleep for consolidating memory.
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Lack of sleep really is bad for you
- October 1999 news article about how significant lack of sleep
adversely affects glucose tolerance and endocrine function.
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Going Under
Susan Gaidos
Science News, May 21, 2011
- Scientists find clues to how anesthesia numbs the brain.
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Keeping Time
Tina Hesman Saey
Science News, April 10, 2010
- New findings show how circadian clocks make the body tick.
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The Why of Sleep
Tina Hesman Saey
Science News, October 24, 2009
- Brain studies may reveal the purpose of a behavior both
basic and mystifying.
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Dying to Sleep
Tina Hesman Saey
Science News, October 24, 2009
- Getting too little sleep can impair body and brain and could
even be deadly.
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Sleep Gone Awry
Laura Sanders
Science News, October 24, 2009
- Researchers inch closer to causes, cures for insomnia, narcolepsy.
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The Gears of the Sleep Clock
Allan Pack
The Scientist, April 2009
- Is replenishment of resources the key to the sleep/wake cycle?
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Disappearing Before Dawn
Kelly Rae Chi
The Scientist, April 2009
- Gene expression studies are lending support to a new
hypothesis for why everyone sleeps: to prune the strength
or number of synapses.
- Why We Sleep
Jerome M. Siegel
Scientific American, November 2003
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