One in four children will experience sleep problems before their 10th birthday. Here are the top factors, plus steps parents can take to give their kids (and themselves) a good night’s sleep.
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Noise pollution can cause long-term stress and harm to wildlife.
Keen to get back to the gym? Be careful. It’s easy to get injured if you’ve been inactive.
There are three features common to most forms of insomnia that can be revelatory for those living under lockdown.
Dreams that are more vivid, more frequent and more striking… Lockdown seems to trouble our nights as well as our days, and there’s reason to believe that’s not just a figment of our imagination.
Research shows napping helps young children learn, as well as enhancing their emotional well-being.
Getting a good night’s sleep during COVID-19 confinement can be challenging, but there are ways to get enough shut-eye.
Listening to other people’s dreams can help to improve your empathy levels.
Physical activity is important for all kinds of health reasons, even in quarantine.
At times of anxiety and trauma an increase in unusual or vivid dreams and nightmares is not surprising.
Whether our brain decides to wake us or let us keep sleeping depends on the loudness and type of sound, our depth of sleep and sensitivity to noise.
During times of stress and anxiety we either dream more or remember our dreams more often, as a way of coping with challenging circumstances and new information.
A study found the emotional dynamic between young heterosexual partners can have a measurable physiological effect on men, but not on women.
Though quarantine isn’t an ideal situation, it might offer us a chance to catch up on some much needed sleep.
To boost your immune defenses against corona and other viruses, one of the most effective things you can do is maintain your natural circadian rhythms. Here’s how to do that.
It takes a period of mental adjustment to get over such big changes but optimism and structure could help.
Sleep supports our immune function and helps us deal with stress. During this uncertain time, making sleep a priority is more than self-care – it’s essential.
Sleep might be a key factor in the link between greener neighbourhoods and better health. A new study shows living in an area with more tree canopy improves people’s odds of getting enough sleep.
The more businesses encourage their employees to sleep well, the better their employees perform.
Smelling a romantic partner’s clothing is common behaviour, and research shows that it may improve sleep quality, and ease stress levels.
Top contributors
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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
