Topic: Boston

Participate in a Research Study - Make $4800! clinical research studies, especially sleep disorder studies can pay several thousand. In Boston, for instance, one is almost certain to see a sign recruiting volunteers for sleep disorder research studies on the subway and ...
If you're reading this at You may be affecting your body's internal clock. Neuroscientist Steven Lockley of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and his colleagues studied how exposure to different levels of light affected the sleep of healthy human volunteers, too. ...
Federal safety panel says trolley driver in fatal Boston crash likely fell asleep brieflyA federal safety panel said Tuesday that the trolley operator who died after her train rammed another trolley in a Boston crash last year had ignored a red stop ...

Sleeping Helps Preserve Important Memories

Sleep is good for your memory, but the sleeping brain seems to store only the most useful information, researchers have found.. The findings are scheduled to be presented Thursday at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting, in Seattle.. Think of sleep ...

Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 15, 2009

Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: The research site is in Bingham Farms, Mich.. Migraine and Cluster Headaches. The research site is in Lexington, Ky.. The research site is in Boston, Mass..

Treatment for jet lag could take off

WAKE up to this: Elizabeth Klerman of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and researchers from Vanda Pharmaceuticals in Rockville, Maryland, disrupted the sleep of 411 volunteers, to mimic flying into a time zone 5 hours ahead. Those who took tasimelteon, ...
The melatonin agonist tasimelteon improves both sleep initiation and maintenance in patients who have experienced a sudden advance in sleep time, and shows potential in treating transient insomnia, according to a report published online Dec. 2 in The Lancet.. Shantha M.W. Rajaratnam, ...

Clinical Trials Update: May 14, 2008

5/14/2008 Print E-mail Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch: If you are aged 18 to 75, weigh below 300 pounds, and are newly diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and haven't been treated for the condition, you may qualify ...

15 Smart Tips to Beat Jet Lag

There are 15 million of us who fly across multiple time zones every year, with 500,000 of us in the air at any given moment. If you're going to be gone longer than a couple of days, begin acclimating your body to ...

Why do we dream?

Ernest Hartmann, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Boston, Mass., explains. This ignorance should not be surprising because despite many theories we still do not ...
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