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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Sleep and Learning
- Brief page about how sleep helps learning and the consolidation
of memories, by the
Society for Neuroscience.
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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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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.
- Why We Sleep
Jerome M. Siegel
Scientific American, November 2003
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