Drinking coffee at work has a range of benefits.
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Workplace productivity is about more than fancy gadgets. It’s about taking care of your body and mind, even away from work.
Just five more minutes … can a coffee before a nap really help you pay back your sleep debt?
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Can drinking a cup of coffee before taking a short nap really give you the energy you need to see you through the day?
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Can disturbed sleep patterns have an impact on a child’s ability to acquire language and vocabulary?
Could this be the world’s largest Fitbit?
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By understanding sleep across animals we can gain insights into improving the quality of human sleep. It can also help to bolster conservation management strategies for the animals in question.
Is she getting enough shuteye?
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People have been fretting about children getting too little sleep for decades.
Asleep, but for how long?
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Sleep experts suggest that you may need to balance the science against your own family’s needs.
‘Wakey, wakey, sleepy head.’
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A wake-up call for early school mornings?
Can a power nap increase productivity? Will it affect your sleep at night?
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Companies such as Google, Nike and Ben & Jerry’s encourage or allow napping at work, providing employees with napping facilities such as napping pods and quiet rooms where they can nap if desired.
Synesthetic number form from the book Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.
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Researchers are trying to train synaesthesia-like associations in people who don’t have the condition.
Snoring occurs due to vibration of the soft tissues of your upper airway.
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Snoring has been linked to serious health conditions such as obstructive sleep apnoea and even cardiovascular disease.
You may have let loose for the silly season, but there are some good reasons to cut back in the new year.
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Many of us don’t treat alcohol with the respect the drug demands.
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Welcome to the controversial world of sleep consultancy, where coaches and counsellors train new born babies to ‘sleep through the night’.
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Recent research suggests running allows the brain to rest and reduces the need for sleep.
Time to get up.
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Gaining a better sense of what genes are involved in regulating circadian clocks could put us on a path to find better treatments and therapies to help people adjust to time shifts.
President Jacob Zuma Sleeping in Parliament during medium term budget presentation.
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The video which shows South African President Jacob Zuma sleeping in parliament during the 2016 mid term budget is symptomatic of a much larger problem of lack of respect for the public.
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Non-addictive and cost-effective, music can reduce the time it takes you to fall asleep and lessen sleep disturbances.
What colour is your light?
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The wrong kind of light can seriously impact your well-being.
Feeling sleepy.
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Feeling tired? Not yourself? Here’s what’s happening inside your head.
Around 10% of the population are larks, and 20% true night owls.
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Our internal body clock is set via a combination of biology (nature), light exposure and social scheduling (nurture).
Tick, tock…
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Lie awake and you could be playing havoc with your amygdala.