Health News and Information - News Medical - Sleep Disorder - Aug 13, 2018 Edition

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August 13, 2018     Sleep Disorder     The latest sleep disorder news from News Medical

Mother’s sleep can impact health of their growing baby, shows research   How much sleep mothers get when they are pregnant can impact on the health of their growing baby, according to a new scoping study conducted by the University of South Australia.

New study links obstructive sleep apnea with changes to brain structure typical of dementia   Obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with changes to the structure of the brain that are also seen in the early stages of dementia, according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal.         Sleep supports antioxidant processes, study suggests   Understanding sleep has become increasingly important in modern society, where chronic loss of sleep has become rampant and pervasive.

Research reveals new gears in the circadian clock   A long-studied factor controlling human sleep cycles actually has two forms, one that keeps a key protein stable and another that promotes its degradation.       New AASM guideline recommends use of actigraphy for sleep disorders   Actigraphy can be a useful clinical tool for the evaluation of adult and pediatric patients with suspected sleep disorders, including circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, according to a clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine       FAU and partners receive NIH research grant to shed light on sleep loss and metabolic disorders   A neuroscientist from Florida Atlantic University's Jupiter Life Science Initiative and collaborators from the University of Minnesota and Stowers Institute for Medical Research recently a received a four-year, $1.68 million R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project titled, "Understanding Complex Trait Architecture through Population Genomics."       Researchers identify neural link between depression and sleep problems   The neural link between depression and sleep problems has been identified for the first time in a new study by researchers at the University of Warwick and Fudan University.

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