• Sleep loss may decrease the desire to engage in social interactions and reduce positive social emotions: After 4 hours of sleep a night, people aged 18-28 reported diminished motivation to pursue social connections and less gratitude and feelings of connectedness with others. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsac265 78 comments 8/11/2022 science
• Insomnia increases likelihood of memory decline in older adults. Individuals were also more likely to show higher prevalence of anxiety, depression, daytime sleepiness, have breathing interruptions during sleep https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsac176/6649765?login=false&redirectedFrom=fulltext 6 comments 6/9/2022 science
• Research has found older men and women ages 63 to 84, who were exposed to any amount of light while sleeping at night were significantly more likely to be obese, and have high blood pressure and diabetes compared to adults who were not exposed to any light during the night https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsac130/6608953?login=false&redirectedFrom=fulltext 22 comments 22/6/2022 science
• Changing school start times (middle school: 40–60 min later; high school: 70 min later) had significant benefits on sleep in primary and secondary school students, finds first large scale study (n=28,000) that examined impact of changing school start times. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsab048/6218366?t=au 1226 comments 15/4/2021 science
• The brainwaves that characterise rapid eye movement (REM) sleep can be manipulated in a targeted manner using precisely-timed auditory stimulation. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsaa227/5960115 3 comments 4/1/2021 science
• 28 year long sleep study shows no differences in cognition / gray matter volume between 5, 6, 7 and 8 hours sleep groups tested. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsz290/5697049 21 comments 15/1/2020 science
• Study suggests coffee/caffeine intake before bedtime only slightly impacted sleep quality, with no affect on sleep duration - results for alcohol and nicotine were more negative, impacting both moderately https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsz136/5535848?guestaccesskey=1e963f6c-fe9f-4524-8cbf-47dc0ceb68cc 4 comments 7/8/2019 science
• One of the largest longitudinal studies to date examined evening consumption of alcohol, caffeine & nicotine among an African-American cohort & find that smoking, but not coffee, is associated with poor sleep. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsz136/5535848?redirectedfrom=fulltext 3 comments 6/8/2019 science
• Scientists examined association sleep & cognitive ageing &change (age 70-76) in a longitudinal,same-year-of-birth cohort study (baselineN=1,091;longitudinal N=664). https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsz019/5298134?redirectedfrom=fulltext 3 comments 2/2/2019 science
• Excessive daytime sleepiness and napping in cognitively normal adults: associations with subsequent amyloid deposition measured by PiB PET https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsy152/5088807 7 comments 12/10/2018 science
• Delaying school start time can result in sustained benefits on sleep duration, daytime alertness, and mental well-being even within a culture where trading sleep for academic success is widespread, based on a study of 375 students in grades 7–10 from an all-girls’ secondary school in Singapore. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsy052/4960018 1815 comments 11/4/2018 science

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