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| EARLY RISERS HAVE SPECIAL GENES |
| People with a particular gene mutation don't need alarm clocks to get out of bed. Their 'fast' metabolism makes them ready to face the day at a very early hour (Image: iStockphoto)
A mutant gene may make people go to sleep and wake up unsociably early, scientists say.
They made their discovery after studying three generations of a family with five members who had the so-called earlybird ailment officially known as familial advanced sleep phase syndrome. |
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| ‘SLEEP ON IT’ IS GOOD ADVICE TO IMPROVE MEMORY |
| Nothing beats a good night's sleep, especially to retrieve memory or to boost the ability to learn language, says US research.
The benefits of sleep are well known, but researchers at the University of Chicago have published research in the journal Nature which shows that while we sleep, brain activity encourages higher types of learning. |
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| SNORING LINKED TO HEADACHES |
| People who suffer from chronic daily headaches are far more likely to be chronic snorers than people who have only occasional headaches, a new U.S. study has found. |
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| A LONG-STANDING ISSUE OF A SLEEP |
| Insomnia, or sleep disorder, appears when it's difficult to fall asleep, or when a sleep period is too short, or if a night sleep doesn't bring a sense of rest. |
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| BODY MOVEMENTS DURING A NIGHT SLEEP |
| According to a broadly-spread opinion, a sleeping man has to move and turn over to assure normal blood circulation. Latest scientific achievements show that this opinion is not entirely true.
Physiologists, having recently conducted a new research, came to a conclusion that if a man does 4 to 12 turnovers per night, it’s enough for a heart to provide normal blood circulation in man’s organism. Therefore, it isn’t necessary to regularly turn over during the entire night sleep period...
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