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You may have to blame your ancestors…
Throughout history there have been numerous accounts of segmented sleep, from medical texts, to court records and diaries.
Tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?
If Frank Underwood has trouble sleeping at night, it’s not because of his conscience
We all have a poor night’s sleep from time to time: those nights when you lie awake for hours trying desperately to go to sleep but can’t stop worrying about tomorrow. Or when you repeatedly wake up throughout…
Teens who suffer from insomnia are also at risk of anxiety and depression, a new Australian study suggests. PhD students…
It’s often said that no-one really knows what sleep is for. Sometimes it’s as if this lack of surety means its functions are relatively unimportant or even vestigial, like an appendix to the story of our…
We’ve known for a long time that hypnotic drugs are not good to take for more than one to three weeks because they are habit-forming and increase the risk of accidents. And there’s now a growing body of…
It can take up to four months of regular aerobic exercise to help insomnia suffers get a good night’s sleep, according to…
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Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
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Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Intersectionality, University of British Columbia
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
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Assistant Professor of Aging Studies, University of South Florida
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Professor of Sleep Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Research professor, University of South Australia
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Research Fellow / Clinical Psychologist, RMIT University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow / Health Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology
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Sleep Psychologist and Researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, Rhodes University
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Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia
