Sleepy Americans
Study Shows that Americans are Besieged by SleeplessnessMore and more Americans work and walk around like sleep-deprived zombies, in part due to growing work hours and poor choices made in an...
View ArticleREM sleep and paranormal phenomena
Lindsay links to an interesting article in the Washington Post - Near-Death Experiences Linked to Sleep Cycles:As many as 10 percent of survivors of heart attacks report having a near-death experience...
View ArticleClockNews #38
Asleep or awake we retain memorySleeping helps to reinforce what we've learned. And brain scans have revealed that cerebral activity associated with learning new information is replayed during sleep....
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Clocks in Bacteria III: Evolution of Clocks in Cyanobacteria
As you probably know, my specialty are birds, so writing this series on clocks in microorganisms was quite an eye-opener for me and I have learned a lot. The previous two posts cover the clocks in the...
View ArticleThe end of Polyphasic Sleep
Michael Breus PHD, ABSM, of Sleep Disorders Blog looks at Steve Pavlina's end of the Polyphasic Sleep Experiment. From what I've seen, everyone who tried it quit in the end. Nobody lasted long enough...
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Sleep Photoblogging
I've seen this picture on a gazillion Lefty blogs this morning and was toying with the idea of posting it here with a snarky remark. Now that Sleepdoctor has it up, I cannot be left behind, so here it...
View ArticleSleepwalking with Ambien
Evil Monkey of the Neurotopia blog has a good rundown on the recent finding that patients on Ambien walk and eat in their sleep.
View ArticleDrinking mothers - perpetually jet-lagged offspring
Prenatal alcohol exposure can alter circadian rhythms in offspringChildren with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) suffer from a variety of behavioral alterations. For example, they may exhibit...
View ArticlePolitics of Periodicity
How I wish I could see this seminar at The Johns Hopkins University:Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Circadian Oscillators in the Brain: Politics of Periodicity," a Biology seminar with Eric Herzog,...
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Clocks in Bacteria IV: Clocks in other bacteria
For decades, it was thought that prokaryotes did not have circadian clocks. Then, a clock was discovered in a unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechococcus (later also in Synechocystis [1] and...
View ArticleSmoking (and Quitting) affects the Perception of Time
I wrote before about the effects of circadian time and/or body temperature on time perception. But, did you know that being a smoker and being placed in a situation in which lighting up is prohibited...
View ArticleAmbien + Phenergan + Driving = A Big No-No
Seems like there is a good deal of interest today in Rep Patrick Kennedy's one-car accident last evening that he has attributed to taking a combination of the prescription sleep aid, Ambien (zolpidem...
View ArticleCory Doctorow on Circadiana
Cory Doctorow gave an interview to RedHat.com recently and mentionedCircadiana there. Although I am thrilled that he likes this place, he made two mistakes:First, I am not a she.Second, Circadiana has...
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Tangled Bank - call for submissions
Next edition of Tangled Bank, the blog carnival covering science, nature, medicine, environment and the intersection between science and society, will be held on Wednesday, May 24th, on my other blog,...
View ArticleClocks in Bacteria V: How about E.coli?
In the previous posts in this series, I covered the circadian clocks in Synechococcus, potential circadian clocks in a couple of other bacteria, and the presence of clock genes (thus potentially...
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Project Exploration
You may have noticed a new button on my sidebar that looks like this:If you click on it, you will be transported to the homepage of one of my favourite science educational programs - the Project...
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Tangled Bank - last call for submissions
The next edition of Tangled Bank is fast approaching - it will appear on my other blog Science And Politics on Wednesday May 24th, very early in the morning. The deadline is 23rd at 8pm ET.I have only...
View ArticleClock in the primate adrenal
From Afarensis, I got a new paper about circadian rhythms in primates: Twenty-four hour rhythmic gene expression in the rhesus macaque adrenal gland (PDF), by Dario Lemos, Jodi Downs and Henryk...
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Eight Hours a Circadian Rhythm Do Not Make
There is a new study on PLoS - Biology that is getting some traction in the media and which caught my attention because it was supposed to be about circadian rhythms. So, I downloaded the paper and...
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Early Bird Gets The Worm....or Seed
(Image stolen from Xtinpore)Well, I may not be the earliest bird, certainly not early enough to grab the worm, but I am early enough in the game to be able to get some seed, or more precisely SEED.Yup,...
View ArticleTake your iPod to bed
Interesting idea, via Sleep Disorders blog: a pre-recorded morning talk-show puts you to sleep because it is a distraction from Real Life worries that may otherwise keep you awake at night, yet no need...
View ArticleSleep News
Benefits of Power NappingandNew research explores why we're sleepy after we eatandSerotonin, Acting In A Specific Brain Region, Promotes Sleep In Fruit Flies:Researchers have found that the...
View ArticleJet-lagged sports teams
Study says West coast teams have advantage:Ingmundson, who is also a a diplomate with the American Board of Sleep Medicine, says western-based teams may have an advantage in sporting events in which...
View ArticleThis blog has (finally) gone to SEED
So, the day has finally arrived - the Big Move to SEED scienceblogs. Go check out the brand new front page and all the old and new bloggers there.My new blog, a fusion of all three of my blogs, will be...
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