Most teens aren’t getting enough sleep, leading to poorer academic performance. Early school start times combined with natural changes in hormones and the circadian rhythm could be to blame.
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Here’s what’s going on in your body when you drink alcohol just before bedtime. And if you want to drink at the Christmas party, we have some tips on how to protect your sleep.
When we change our diet, we disrupt our appetite hormones. Here’s how it works – and how small changes to our diet can help us feel fuller for longer.
Lifestyle-related dementia risks are complex, with factors like sleep, exercise, diet and social contact interacting with things like cognitive reserve, neuroplasticity and inflammation in the body.
Questions about co-sleeping are often drowned out in a whirlwind of information and opinions. But science can provide some answers.
PanaNatra is a line of herbal products from the makers of Panadol. But can herbal ingredients relieve different types of pain?
How did you sleep last night? Our six-part series looks at why so many of us have insomnia, and what it’s costing us.
Poor sleep deprives First Nations people of the chance to connect with culture. So they co-designed a sleep apnoea program they’d actually use.
Synchronizing your daily activities to your circadian rhythm could help you improve your performance on a variety of cognitive tasks − and even influence diagnosis of cognitive disorders.
We found each of the books tended to give parents one approach for dealing with their child’s sleep, rather than a range of options.
Fixating on sleep can make your sleep worse. But some people crave the connection online sleep communities provide.
You’ve tried everything to get some sleep, but nothing’s working. Here’s what not to do, and what works.
Insomnia and mental disorders are inter-related in a way we’ve yet to fully understand. But treating one can often help the other.
If you struggle to get up, “snoozing” could help you perform better when you finally do.
Many studies showing an impact of insomnia on the body are flawed or not meaningful in everyday life. But they can lead to scary headlines.
Too much light and noise at night in cities makes us sleep less and, as a consequence, worsens our health. Here are some of the measures that local authorities should take to remedy this problem.
Most movies tend to minimise or exaggerate insomnia symptoms. Insomnia is also rarely depicted as an illness that can be treated.
Insomnia is torture, literally, and getting enough sleep a modern obsession. Here’s why.
It turns out people who sleep well and those who sleep poorly have different kinds of thoughts before bed.
They’re heavily promoted. Your optometrist may even prescribe them. But when we looked at the evidence, this is what we found.
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University
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Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
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Research professor, University of South Australia
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Director, Appleton Institute, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Associate Professor at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Sleep and Physiology and Director of Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
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Chercheur en neurosciences à l'Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm
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Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Sleep Physiology, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow / Health Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
