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Classroom meditation shows promise for improving student attention, focus, happiness and self-awareness.
Poor quality sleep is almost guaranteed over the festive period. Here’s how to get some decent shut-eye.
If you’re tossing and turning in the middle of the night, these techniques may help you to nod off.
Although it may appear you’re “switching off” when you fall asleep, the brain is far from inactive.
Many hope that marijuana will help their insomnia. A sleep psychologist examines the evidence.
Quetiapine, sold under the brand name Seroquel, is a short-acting antipsychotic drug to treat major mental illnesses. It has also been increasingly prescribed off-label for insomnia.
A new study sheds light on the link between poor sleep and thoughts about suicide.
Can drinking a cup of coffee before taking a short nap really give you the energy you need to see you through the day?
Non-addictive and cost-effective, music can reduce the time it takes you to fall asleep and lessen sleep disturbances.
The wrong kind of light can seriously impact your well-being.
Lie awake and you could be playing havoc with your amygdala.
You may have to blame your ancestors…
Throughout history there have been numerous accounts of segmented sleep, from medical texts, to court records and diaries.
Tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?
If Frank Underwood has trouble sleeping at night, it’s not because of his conscience
We all have a poor night’s sleep from time to time: those nights when you lie awake for hours trying desperately to go to sleep but can’t stop worrying about tomorrow. Or when you repeatedly wake up throughout…
Teens who suffer from insomnia are also at risk of anxiety and depression, a new Australian study suggests. PhD students…
It’s often said that no-one really knows what sleep is for. Sometimes it’s as if this lack of surety means its functions are relatively unimportant or even vestigial, like an appendix to the story of our…
We’ve known for a long time that hypnotic drugs are not good to take for more than one to three weeks because they are habit-forming and increase the risk of accidents. And there’s now a growing body of…
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Honorary Affiliate and Clinical Psychologist at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, and Macquarie University Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sleep Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University
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Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Intersectionality, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Sleep and Wellbeing, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor of Aging Studies, University of South Florida
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Sleep Researcher, Appleton Institute, HealthWise Research Group, CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Anglia Ruskin University