A baldness/dog/sleep/hair causal chain-of-events is the thrilling backbone to this new medical report. “Successful treatment of refractory alopecia universalis by persuading a patient not to sleep with her dog,” Takahiro Arita, Tomoko Nomiyama, Jun Asai, Norito Katoh, Allergology International, epub 2017. The authors, at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan, report: “A 57-year-old woman who […]
Tag: sleep
I think that I shall never see a thing as sleepy as a tree
Inspired by popular interpretations of a new study (see below), we offer a revision to an old poem: I think that I shall never see A thing as sleepy as a tree. A tree with drooping bits depressed, All snoozy when it’s time to rest… Andy Coglan writes, in New Scientist, about a recently published twig on a branch on the […]
Too tired to cheat?
Have you ever been presented with an opportunity to cheat, but, paradoxically, just didn’t have the energy to bother? You may have been suffering from ‘Ego-Depletion’. According to professors Kai Chi (Sam) Yam, Xiao-Ping Chen, and Scott J. Reynolds, conducting investigations at the Management and Organization department at the Foster School of Business, University of […]
Wandhekar’s sleep note
You must get unusual mail, people sometimes remark. Yes, we do. Here’s a note that arrived this past weekend: what is this? This is a sleeping position. Sleep at this position near about one hour … When asthma people sleep at this position near about one hour then they get more powerful result. Please sleep more […]
Should you lose sleep over losing sleep over the economy?
Three economists issued a wake-up call of some sort about the economy and sleep. The economists say that people who say they lose sleep over the economy are — in the aggregate, statistically speaking, based on some data and cogitation —wrong. Marina Antillon of Yale, Diane S. Lauderdale of the University of Chicago, and John Mullahy of the University of […]
A kind of thing that humans can learn during sleep
The industry devoted to “sleep learning” aside, it’s been unclear that people can learn much of anything while they are asleep. An experiment (by much the same team that later noted the phenomenon of contagious sniffing), says it has identified one kind of thing that people can indeed learn while they are asleep: “Humans can […]
For sleep-and-monks-and-nuns enthusiasts
Rare is the study that focus on how monks and nuns sleep. One is: “Ring the Bell for Matins: Circadian Adaptation to Split Sleep by Cloistered Monks and Nuns,” Isabelle Arnulf [pictured here], Agnès Brion, Michel Pottier and Jean-Louis Golmard, Chronobiology International, Dec., 2011, Vol. 28, No. 10 , pp. 930-41. (Thanks to investigator Yvette […]
Extraocular Phototransduction: more than meets the eye? (part 1)
If you are unlucky enough to be suffering from the debilitating effects of long-haul jet-lag, you could try shining a very bright light into your popliteal fossae (the backs of your knees). The potential of this technique as a way of shifting the phase of one’s circadian clock was first described by professors Scott S. […]
“Known to cause” Claim of the Month: sleepy sexual perception
Brain research takes many forms. Here is one such form, announced in a May 30, 2013 press release from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine: Sleep deprived men over perceive women’s sexual interest and intent Due in part to frontal lobe impairment, sleep deprivation negatively influences cognitive variables that play a role in sexual decision-making …According to […]
The judge who fell asleep [study]
When a judge falls asleep in the courtroom, sometimes people are alert enough to notice – and then word gets out to the public. That’s happened often enough for two doctors to decide to do something. What they did was to gather news reports about slumbering judges, write a paper about those reports, and then […]