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Journal of Sleep Research
Official Journal of the European Sleep Research Society
Edited by:
Derk-Jan Dijk
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 35/156 Clinical Neurology; 73/219 Neurosciences
Impact Factor: 3.255
Recent years have seen an unprecedented growth in sleep research and in sleep medicine.The Journal of Sleep Research, owned by the European Sleep Research Society, is an international journal that encourages important research papers presenting new findings in the field of sleep and wakefulness (including biological rhythms and dreaming). The Journal reflects the progress in this rapidly expanding field, promoting the exchange of ideas between scientists at a global level.
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Possibility that certain hypnotics might cause cancer in skin
DANIEL F. KRIPKE
The next time you intend to pop a sleeping pill into your mouth when having some trouble nodding off, it might be worth counting sheep instead: A senior psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in California has found evidence that taking sleeping pills regularly can increase the risk of skin cancer.
An ultra short episode of sleep is sufficient to promote declarative memory performance OLAF LAHL, CHRISTIANE WISPEL et al
Taking just a brief daytime nap - even for a mere six minutes - is enough to enhance a person's memory abilities, according to a new study by psychologists at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany. Dr. Olaf Lahl, Christiane Wispel, Bernadette Willigens and Reinhard Pietrowsky of the university's Institute of Experimental Psychology have reported this intriguing finding in the latest issue of the Journal of Sleep Research, the official journal of the European Sleep Research Society.
While not certain exactly how this ultra-short period of sleep enhances processing of word lists, nonsense syllables and other memory tasks by the brain, the researchers suggest that the mere onset of sleep may initiate active processes of consolidation that remain effective even if the person wakes up soon afterwards.
