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News & Views: Researchers offer jet lag advice in return for data about your sleep
Posted on May 18, 2016 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ND Lesson4-2, ND Lesson4-4, ND Lesson4-5, ND Unit4, Neurological Disorders | | Add comment |

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Users of an app developed by the University of Michigan to help with jet lag entered information on their time zone and sleep patterns that helped academics with their work. But is the approach valid? The analysis of the data was published in the journal Science Advances, but critics worry that using data generated via smartphones might not be a representative sample.

Read more at NPR.org.

News & Views: Can ‘sleeping on it’ really be the best way to solve a problem?
Posted on July 28, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ND Final Project, ND Lesson4-1, ND Lesson4-2, ND Lesson4-3, ND Lesson4-4, ND Unit4, Neurological Disorders | | Add comment |

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Have you ever struggled to finish a level of Candy Crush or complete a Sudoku puzzle in the evening but breezed through it the following morning? The reason may please anyone who’s been told they spend too much time in bed asleep. A new study suggests that ‘sleeping on it’ can improve problem solving.

Read more at iflscience.com.

News & Views: For a good snooze, take one melatonin, add eye mask and earplugs
Posted on March 23, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ND Lesson4-3, ND Lesson4-4, ND Lesson4-5, ND Unit4 | | Add comment |

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Hospitals are notoriously difficult places to sleep, despite efforts to make them less noisy. Cheap, simple workarounds can help, a study finds. Taking the sleep hormone, melatonin, helped the most.

Read more at NPR.org.