The aim of the present study was to objectively measure the effect of sleeping alone for one night on sleep quality in female bed partners of male snorers. Females complaining of poor sleep due to snoring by their bed partner and having no known hearing loss or snoring were included in a prospective multicentre cross-sectional study. 23 females underwent one polysomnography recording while slee...

Morinda citrifolia (Indian mulberry or noni) fruit has been long used as a folk medicine for a wide range of health purposes as it is claimed to have analgesic, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, detoxifier, and cell-rejuvenator properties. A recent study has revealed central nervous system suppressant nature of its extract. Hence, the present study has evaluated the anxiolytic, sedative, and hypno...

In a randomized controlled design, 100 healthy, term neonates in the first week of life, undergoing heel prick for routine screening were randomized to receive a heel prick in either the drowsy/sleeping state or the awake (but not fussy or crying) state. 48 babies in sleeping or drowsy states and 47 in the awake states were analyzed. Infants in the drowsy/sleeping states scored significantly lo...

Introduction. Human sleep practices are highly divergent across culture and time (Blunden, Thompson & Dawson; Worthman and Melby; Munroe, Munroe, and Whiting). In the same way that sleeping spaces in industrialized societies have increasingly become divided according to age (adult and child), so have spaces been segregated according to species (human and non-human animal), although many culture...

A stochastic model for analysing the response of sleeping subjects to sound stimuli whose intensity varies with time is developed, generalizing a model developed in [1] for analysing the response of sleeping subjects to sound stimuli of constant intensity. The model is used to analyse the results of an experiment carried out by Ball and Bruck [2] to compare the response time of sleeping subject...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk factors among individuals with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes (n = 391). METHODS Sleep duration was derived using a combination of questionnaire and objective heart rate and movement sensing in the UK ADDITION-Plus study (2002-2007). Adjusted means were estimated for individual cardiometabolic risk factor...