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Research has shown that the difference between men and women is "rather minimal," as women only need about 11 to 13 more minutes of sleep, Troxel told Fox News Digital.
Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency [2] or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health. It can be either chronic or acute and may vary widely in severity.
Irregular sleep schedules can cause negative impacts on learning, memory, and performance. The dual process theory determines that certain types of memory depend on specific sleep states, like REM and NREM (Non-Rem) states. REM sleep deprivation can reduce sleep-induced improvement such as visual perception, thus influencing how one learns.
Sleep epidemiology is an emerging branch of the discipline of epidemiology. [1] It is a growing field of scientific enquiry, with the first documented modern ...
In 2015, Williams — a renowned expert on what’s known as the Black-white sleep gap — published a study with others at NYU looking at data on sleep duration dating back to the 1970s.
Finding the right sleep sound is a bit like finding the right type of pajamas, says Dr. Winter. And while research on the sleep benefits of different noise types is limited, it’s definitely growing.
Poor sleep quality, connected with poor mood and menstrual pain, especially during the premenstrual week, are most likely to be reported. [1] Psychological factors influencing sleep quality in women, related to hormonal fluctuations, such as mood disorders and sleep disorders, are often higher in women after the onset menarche. [2]
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (or simply known as Why We Sleep) is a 2017 popular science book about sleep written by Matthew Walker, an English scientist and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in neuroscience and psychology.