Tag Archive | Sleep
LabBook April 12, 2013
Prostate cancer screening, songbirds, startups and more in this week’s LabBook.
LabBook March 8, 2013
Impulse control, diabetes evolution, focal therapy and more in this week’s LabBook.
LabBook October 19, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. LAST […]
LabBook August 24, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. This […]
Lonely Hearts, Disrupted Sleep
Loneliness has had a tough run of late, with a growing body of research blaming it for everything from high blood pressure to heart disease to depression and cognitive decline. The research group of John Cacioppo, director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, has been among the leaders […]
Linkage 9/2: Counting Species, Ancient Drug Resistance, Sleep & Hypertension
Writing about science means looking up a lot of numbers. Trying to find a figure for the number of cells in the body or the protein-encoding genes in human DNA or patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer from 1980 through 1995 can eat up a lot of time and internet bandwidth. For some of these oft-cited […]
Sleep and the Male Sex Life
By Dianna Douglas More research practically begging people to get a good night’s sleep has come out of the sleep labs at the University of Chicago. Eve Van Cauter and Rachel Leproult have discovered that a week of inadequate sleep means less testosterone in young men. A lot less. In the study, ten healthy young […]
The Brain’s Underdogs Have Their Day
[Cartoon from the University of Washington "Neuroscience for Kids" page.] ===== In neuroscience, the neurons hog all the attention. Most research is focused on the 100 billion neurons of the brain, the elongated cells that fire electric action potentials and release chemical transmitters to communicate with each other. But the neurons are a minority in […]
