Multiple protective roles of Melatonin
Melatonin is a hormone produced in the pineal gland and is associated with regulating sleep...
26 February, 2019
sleep Tag
Implicit Vocabulary Learning during Sleep Is Bound to Slow-Wave Peaks
Sleep is considered a recurring, reversible behavioural state of perceptual disengagement from and unresponsiveness to...
11 February, 2019
A possible new objective test of fatigue related performance impairment… eye testing
Pupillographic Sleepiness Tests (PST) use a camera to measure the pupil diameter of people for...
01 February, 2019
Sleep and Eye Disorders
Optic Nerve Dysfunction in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Electrophysiological Study (Liguori et al., 2016) The...
01 February, 2019
Long term oral appliance therapy improves daytime function and mood in Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome patients
Mandibular advancement splints (MAS) are a type of oral appliance used to treat obstructive sleep...
10 January, 2019
Acute sleep deprivation and culpable motor vehicle crash involvement
Brian C Tefft recently published a paper in the Journal of Sleep to help quantify...
10 January, 2019
The Economic Cost of Inadequate Sleep
The financial and non-financial costs associated with inadequate sleep are substantial. In the August edition...
10 January, 2019
Later high school start times help adolescents sleep longer
Sometimes the world of science throws up some literature that proves what is otherwise common...
08 November, 2018
Dream Genes
A recent study from the RIKEN Centre in Japan has just isolated two genes which...
02 November, 2018
Sleep DownUnder 2018
Dr Andrew Scott and the team from The Wesley Hospital Sleep Disorders unit recently attended...
26 October, 2018