"Anything can be a choice," Willis says, whether it's deciding what book to read before bedtime to smooth the path to sleep, participating in meal planning and cooking to encourage dinnertime excitement or putting a personal spin on completing their chores.
Some residents are praying for the project to fail, losing sleep, participating in protests, consulting lawyers.
Amongst the different functions that sleep may fulfill, lines of evidence gathered from cell recordings in rodents to behavioral and neuroimaging data in humans provide support to the idea that sleep participates in the long-term consolidation of recently acquired memories [1] [4].
Using this model, we recently showed that protein synthesis during sleep participates in the consolidation process.
One hundred and thirty eight patients from six service areas (i.e. cardiology, renal, mental health, cancer, chronic pain, and sleep disorders) participated in the final phase of the validation study (participation rate 86% = 138/160).
Eight healthy young (age range 21 25 years) right-handed men without sleep complaints participated in the study.
Twenty right-handed subjects (11 females, age 20 31 years) with no history of neurological or sleep disorders participated in this study.
Eighty-two patients (41 men and 41 women, mean age 38.5±17.6) with chronic hypersomnias of central origin including thirty-nine subjects with narcolepsy with clear-cut cataplexy (NC), 17 with narcolepsy without cataplexy (NWC), and 26 with idiopathic hypersomnia (HI) with long sleep time participated in the study.
94 students with sleep complaints participated a music study.
ACPP was involved in design of the study, consulting on sleep medicine, participating in focus groups, participating in drafting the paper.
