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Study finds humans experience longer REM sleep in winter than summer
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The sun controls our internal clocks, regardless of whether we are morning or night owls. The length and quality of our sleep can be impacted by seasonal variations in day length and light exposure. But it's challenging to understand how this works in real life. Although studies in which par
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Light exposure might influence mood and cognitive disorders, find research
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
California [US], July 7 (ANI): A study of 20 healthy people undergoing functional MRI while they were exposed to various intensities of light found that more than two dozen brain regions exhibited activation that either decreased or increased with light intensity, suggesting that the brain r
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Light exposure during sleep in older adults linked to high blood pressure,
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): A new study has found that people who were exposed to any amount of light while sleeping at night were significantly more likely to be obese, have high blood pressure and diabetes compared to adults who were not exposed to any light during the night.
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Exposure to light during sleep associated with blood pressure, diabetes, a
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Evanston [US], June 26 (ANI): Even low light can disturb sleep, increasing the risk of serious health problems such as blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity in older adults, according to the findings of a study.
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Study finds light exposure during sleep linked to blood pressure, diabetes
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Evanston [US], June 23 (ANI): According to a study, even low light can disturb sleep, increasing the risk of serious health problems such as blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity in older adults.
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Study finds even dim light before going to bed may disrupt a preschooler's
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colorado [US], January 28 (ANI): A new study has found that even a little exposure to light can prompt the necessary sleep-promoting hormone melatonin to plummet in preschoolers in the hour before bedtime, potentially disrupting their sleep.
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Blue light exposure speeds up aging process!
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 18 (ANI): Imagining a day without taking a look at your phones or laptop seems impossible today but being in front of screens for a long time has been found to affect our aging process!
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Night-time dim-light exposure could make breast cancer spread to bone
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 24 (ANI): Breast cancer patients, who expose themselves to dim-light at night, take note! A recent study has found out that dim-light exposure at night could likely lead breast cancer to spread to bone.
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Exposure to artificial light could cause insomnia
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 1 (ANI): Artificial, outdoor light exposure at night is linked to insomnia in older adults, according to a study.
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Light exposure during sleep affects metabolism
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], June 05 (ANI): It's not just your sleep cycle that gets affected due to light exposure at night; your metabolism is getting affected too, a new research has claimed.
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