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A 2026 CARDIOSA-12 secondary analysis found that active hypoglossal nerve stimulation improved sleepiness, insomnia, snoring, and sleep-related function, but objective cognitive test perform…
Read articleDreams transform waking life rather than replaying it directly. In a 2026 Communications Psychology study of 3,366 reports, dreams were more visual, spatial, social, and bizarre than waking …
Read articleRestless legs syndrome (RLS) and opioid-withdrawal restlessness both produce night-worsening urges to move. A 2026 npj Parkinson’s Disease mouse study tied that overlap to hypersensitive str…
Read articleA Wuhan cohort of 2,210 pregnant women found that mid-pregnancy sleep disturbance was common enough to screen for and associated with several birth-outcome signals. Depressive symptoms, pre-…
Read articleA 2026 study of Hodgkin lymphoma survivors treated with mantle radiation found obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in 36 of 42 people who eventually underwent sleep testing. The practical screenin…
Read articleSleep problems during chemotherapy include more than daytime fatigue. In a 2026 outpatient chemotherapy sample, 87% reported poor sleep quality and 61% had variable sleep timing, while measu…
Read articleA 2026 iScience paper used simultaneous sleep EEG-fMRI from 2 healthy cohorts totaling 24 people to build slow-wave-related BOLD reference maps and propose SloCAD, a framework for measuring …
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