Medical News Today: Melatonin for sleep: What to know
Melatonin is a hormone that the body produces when it gets dark to signal that it is time to go to sleep. Melatonin supplements can help people with sleep problems get a good night ’s rest. Learn more here. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Source Type: news
Are Sleeping Pills Safe? Here ’s What Research Says
According to the latest numbers, roughly 9 million Americans — 4% of U.S. adults — use prescription sleep aids, or medications that can help with insomnia and other sleep issues. And now, some of the most popular prescription sleep drugs must carry stronger safety warnings.
In April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated black-box warnings — which the agency uses to “call attention to serious or life-threatening risks” — on three sedative-hypnotic sleep aids: eszopiclone (often sold under the brand name Lunesta), zaleplon (Sonata) and zolpidem (Ambien). Hypnotic drugs, which ar...
Source: TIME: Health - May 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Drugs Source Type: news
Researchers create the first maps of two melatonin receptors essential for sleep
(DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) An international team of researchers used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create the first detailed maps of two melatonin receptors that tell our bodies when to go to sleep or wake up and guide other biological processes. A better understanding of how they work could enable researchers to design better drugs to combat sleep disorders, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Their findings were published in two papers today in Nature. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - April 24, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
10 Biggest Myths About Sleeping, According To Researchers
(CNN) — Hey, sleepyheads. What you believe about sleep may be nothing but a pipe dream.
Many of us have notions about sleep that have little basis in fact and may even be harmful to our health, according to researchers at NYU Langone Health’s School of Medicine, who conducted a study published Tuesday in the journal Sleep Health.
“There’s such a link between good sleep and our waking success,” said lead study investigator Rebecca Robbins, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health. “And yet we often find ourselves debunking myths, whether ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health Healthwatch News CNN Sleep Source Type: news
Melatonin Helps Kids With Autism, Ups Parents' Quality of Life Melatonin Helps Kids With Autism, Ups Parents' Quality of Life
Children with autism and their parents benefited from better sleep offered by prolonged-release melatonin, with improvements in externalizing behavior and quality of life, investigators found.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Melatonin affects postural control in community-dwelling older adults while dual tasking: a randomized observation study - Lui MFG, Chow HKD, Wong WMK, Tsang WNW.
The effects of a single 3-mg dose of melatonin on the postural control and cognitive performance of community-dwelling older adults were documented. The testing involved stepping down while performing a cognitive task (a Stroop test). Thirty-four older adu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Book Review: Living Light: The Art of Using Light for Health & Happiness
While it’s hard not to notice the brilliant display of colors set off by a sunset over the water, we seldom consider the biological, or even psychological, benefits of light.
“It is my belief that good quality light in our daily lives is far more important than we might think,” writes Karl Ryberg.
In his new book, Living Light: The Art of Using Light For Health And Happiness, Ryberg brings us his life’s work — studying the obvious and not so obvious ways in which light affects us and how we can use light in our lives not only function better, but feel better.
Light, we know, plays an important role in seasona...
Source: Psych Central - March 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Claire Nana Tags: Book Reviews Disorders General Habits Psychology Seasonal Affective Disorder Self-Help Treatment artificial light Light therapy Living Light natural light Ryberg SAD Source Type: news
Can't stand the rain? How wet weather affects human behaviour
Rainfall affects our mood, our propensity to commit crime and how hungry we feel – but why?It ’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. He bumped his head when he went to bed, and he couldn’t get up in the morning. This was possibly because in the absence of sunlight his body was still producing the hormone melatonin, which makes you sleepy. There are many ways that rainfall af fects human behaviour. Why do crime levels drop when the heavens open? How much does rain really affect people’s moods and behaviour?In 2008 university researcherspublished a paper proposing that weak summer monsoons were influenti...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 6, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Jamie Flook Tags: Science Source Type: news
Can You Really Catch Up on Lost Sleep? Here ’s What the Science Says
Experts have long said that you can’t make up for lost sleep by snoozing more on your days off. But in 2018, a study published in the Journal of Sleep Research called that conclusion into question, suggesting that sleeping in on days off could cancel out at least some of the health risks associated with work-week sleep deprivation, including the threat of early death.
But a study recently published in Current Biology echoes previous convictions. It says extra weekend rest is not enough to make up for sleep lost during the week, and concludes that the “benefits of weekend recovery sleep are transient.”
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Source: TIME: Health - March 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized sleep Source Type: news
Acute stress disrupts temporal patterns of behavioral and biochemical parameters of rats - Souza A, Detanico BC, Medeiros LF, Oliveira C, Scarabelot VL, Cioato SG, Caumo W, Torres ILS.
This study aimed to answer these questions: (i) Can the temporal patterns of locomotor and exploratory activities and anxiety-like behavior be disrupted by a single session of stress? (ii) Can the temporal patterns of corticosterone, melatonin, and glucose... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Children With Autism More Than Twice As Likely To Have Trouble Sleeping
BOSTON (CBS) – According to a study in the journal Pediatrics, young children with autism have a harder time getting to sleep and staying asleep.
Researchers examined the sleep habits of almost 2,000 kids between the ages of 2 and 5 and found that while about a quarter of the kids in the general population had sleep problems, kids on the autism spectrum and those with other developmental delays with characteristics of autism were more than twice as likely to have sleep problems.
Children with autism often have anxiety, difficulty making transitions and differences in melatonin production, all of which may contribute....
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - February 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Healthwatch Autism Dr. Mallika Marshall Sleep Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Which foods can help you sleep?
A variety of foods contain compounds that can help a person sleep, such as serotonin, melatonin, and tryptophan. Learn about the best foods for falling and staying asleep here. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Source Type: news
Experts warn against regular use of melatonin
Concerns over safety have prompted the American Chemical Society to produce a video that indicates melatonin should be used only as a last resort for sleep regulation.Medscape (Source: Society for Endocrinology)
Source: Society for Endocrinology - December 21, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Melatonin'Should Be a Last Resort' in Tackling Sleep Issues Melatonin'Should Be a Last Resort' in Tackling Sleep Issues
Individuals with disturbed sleep patterns should look at light exposure and sleep behaviors before reaching for melatonin, say experts who suggest a series of recommendations for taking the hormone.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Melatonin receptor activation provides cerebral protection after traumatic brain injury by mitigating oxidative stress and inflammation via the Nrf2 signaling pathway - Wang J, Jiang C, Zhang K, Lan X, Chen X, Zang W, Wang Z, Guan F, Zhu C, Yang X, Lu H, Wang J.
In this study, using a weight-drop model of TBI, we investiga... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
