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Even the circadian rhythms of most permanent (fixed) night shift workers do not delay enough to align with night work and day sleep, because workers usually revert to sleeping at night (at conventional times) on days off and because they are usually exposed to bright advancing morning light on the way home from work.(More…)

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Bright Mobile Screens May Delay Bedtime

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The use of mobile media devices at bedtime provides socially and physiologically stimulating material at a time when the transition to sleep requires the brain to wind down.(More…)

When kids keep portable mobile screen-based devices like smartphones and tablets in their bedrooms, the result is fewer hours of sleep, poor sleep quality, and daytime sleepiness.(More…)

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Larry H. Bernstein,MD, FCAP, Curator

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  Perchance to Dream

Mapping the dreaming brain through neuroimaging and studies of brain damage

By Karen Zusi | March 1, 2016

Prefrontal leucotomies—surgeries to cut a section of white matter in the front of the brain, thus severing the frontal lobe’s connections to other brain regions—were all the rage through the 1950s as treatments for…