Tag: sleep deprivation

April 17, 2019

Over a third of adults in the United States do not get enough sleep, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In fact, around 35 percent of adults get less than the recommended 7 hours of sleep […]

April 11, 2019

Ever felt grumpy after a sleepless night? When we do not manage to satisfy our need for rest, our brains tend to rebel in various ways. Sleep deprivation, studies have shown, can be just as bad as being drunk, as […]

March 12, 2019

Sleep deprivation can contribute to a host of mental and physical problems, including depression, diabetes, and impaired cognitive functioning. Now, research from the University of California (UC), Berkeley has linked sleep deprivation to another effect: social isolation. According to the […]

January 29, 2019

One in 3 adults in the United States, or 35 percent of the adult population, do not get enough sleep. The effects of sleep deprivation on the brain are numerous, from inducing an inebriation-like state of cognitive impairment to hindering […]

January 9, 2019

A tweak to default orders in the University of Chicago Medical Center’s electronic health records system is letting patients sleep more soundly at night. Inpatient sleep deprivation is a serious problem at hospitals because of frequent nighttime awakenings by clinicians […]

November 7, 2018

Sleep deprivation has a wide range of adverse effects on a person’s health. Not only does insufficient sleep impair attention and judgment, but prolonged sleep deprivation raises the risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and respiratory disease. […]

September 24, 2018

The cardiometabolic health risks linked to sleep deprivation are numerous. These health risks include weight gain, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Going to bed and waking up at the same time every day, however, […]

July 18, 2016

The links between sleep and health–and sleep and body weight, in particular–have become harder to ignore in recent years. The research has shown a strong connection between sleep deprivation and higher body weight, both in adults and in kids. And […]

June 8, 2016

Sleep deprivation and an abnormal sleep cycle may increase the risk of heart disease, especially for shift workers, a small study suggests. “In humans, as in all mammals, almost all physiological and behavioral processes, in particular the sleep-wake cycle, follow […]

February 15, 2016

A NIH-backed University of Pittsburgh study conducted on 1,788 US citizen aged between 19 and 32 revealed that sleep disturbance may be linked with social media activities. The frequency of social media visits was directly proportional with the sleep disturbance […]

December 18, 2015

First, the bad news. We’re in the middle of a sleep crisis. According to a recent Gallup poll, 40 percent of all American adults are sleep-deprived. And the problem runs deep: the idea of sleep as time wasted not only […]