The importance of sleep to hormones and glucose metabolism was first documented more
than four decades ago. Since then, sleep curtailment has become an endemic behavior in …

Poor sleep has increasingly gained attention as a potential contributor to the recent obesity
epidemic. The increased prevalence of obesity in Western nations over the past half‐century …

Abstract Study Objectives: To investigate and explain sex differences in subjective and
actigraphic sleep parameters in community-dwelling elderly persons. Design: Cross …

Many circadian rhythms are controlled by the central clock of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of
the hypothalamus, as well as clocks located in other brain regions and most peripheral …

BACKGROUND: Insomnia is the most commonly reported sleep disorder, characterized by
trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early. Previous epidemiological data …

Objective: Circadian mechanisms underlie the physiology of mammals as an adaptation to
the earth's rotation on its axis. Highly conserved core circadian regulatory proteins (CCRPs) …

The prevalence of obesity has reached such levels to be considered epidemic and a major
public health problem. In addition to the well-established contributing factors of diet and …

Chronic sleep deprivation is increasingly entertained as a novel risk factor for obesity.
However, the vast majority of studies on this topic have relied on unvalidated subjective …

For many people, days just don't seem long enough. In order to cram everything into one 24-
hour period, something has to give. Judging by many surveys of Americans, it's sleep.Dying …

We have performed the spectral analysis of the sleep EEG in what is likely the largest group
of subjects ever assembled and have demonstrated marked effects of age, sex and ethnicity …