snoozester, Author at The Sleep Blog

Problems are solved by sleeping

Getting a good night’s sleep can actually help you solve problems (and you thought “sleep on it” was just an expression):

The study at the University of California San Diego showed that the volunteers who entered REM during sleep improved their creative problem solving ability by almost 40%.

The findings suggest it is not merely sleep itself, or the passage of time, that is important for the problem solving, but the quality of sleep.

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60 Minutes Segment About Sleep

Last night, CBS ran a segment on 60 Minutes called The Science of Sleep.
They covered some of topics that we have previously blogged about such as: Lack of sleep and risk of cardiovascular disease, Sleep contributing to better memory , and more. Pretty interesting segment – worth a watch!

And you thought your toddler was irritable..

ABC News has an interesting story online about a 3 year old boy that cannot sleep.

As a result, the boy, Rhett, has become quite irritable. Rhett appears to have a very rare condition that has caused his brain to become compressed in/around his spinal column. It took doctors some time to arrive at this diagnosis, but they have since operated in hopes of relieving the pressure and allowing Rhett’s brain to expand and function normally.