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SC seeks Centre reply on plea seeking to refer to medical board man's case
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
The petition said that the man is in a miserable state due to diffuse axonal injury with a permanent vegetative state (PSV), which is also known as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome", Quadriplegia (100 percent disability) is a symptom of paralysis that affects all limbs and body of a person
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That necessary morning coffee may be a placebo
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Many people don't consider the day to begin until their coffee mug is empty. Coffee is commonly assumed to increase alertness, thus individuals drink it to wake themselves up and improve their productivity. Portuguese researchers analysed coffee consumers to determine whether the wakefulness
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Study: Schizophrenia patients' symptoms grow by disrupted sleep, wakefulne
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry
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Disrupted sleep linked to higher risk of death, particularly in women: Stu
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 22 (ANI): A new study has shown a clear link between the frequency and duration of unconscious wakefulness during night-time sleep and an increased risk of dying from diseases of the heart and blood vessels, and death from any cause, particularly in women.
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Study reveals brain noise contains a unique signature of dream sleep
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 7 (ANI): When we dream, our brains are filled with noisy electrical activity that looks nearly identical to that of the awake brain. But researchers have pulled a signal out of the noise that uniquely defines dreaming, or REM (Rapid eye movement) sleep, potentially ma
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Wakefulness may predict if patients can breathe on their own: Study sugges
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington [US], Mar 1 (ANI): According to recent study patients who are critically ill are more likely to be successfully weaned from a ventilator or breathing machine if they have higher levels of wakefulness.
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The Interplay between sleep and wakefulness
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] July 22 (ANI): Awake or asleep, we are basically under the regulation of two biological processes: sleep homeostasis, commonly known as 'sleep pressure', and the circadian rhythm, otherwise known as the 'body clock'.
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