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Intellect thrives on sleep Land of nod is a learning experience Cramming all night might help you to scrape through exams, but it won't make you clever in the long run. Human and animal experiments are lending new support to a common parental adage: that a good night's sleep is essential to learning. "Modern life's erosion of sleep time could be seriously short-changing our education potential," warned Robert Stickgold of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston this week. Many pianists find that sleeping on a tune can help ...

IF your home resonates to nightly snoring, it could be because your family inherited a round-shaped head. Round-headed people tend to interrupt sleep with snoring more than those with long, thin faces, says a study at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. There is now a hunt on for the "snoring genes" that influence head shape, says Dr Mark Hans, of the department of orthodontics at the university's school of dentistry. Before the study, age, sex and obesity were used to predict chronic snoring. Now his team has used the shape of a person's head as one indicator of ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Dr. William Gray, the scientist known as America's most reliable hurricane forecaster, on Friday called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" for making the Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. "For someone of his statue (stature), he's a gross alarmist," Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference, where he delivered the closing speech. "He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Gray, 77, said. A spokeswoman said Gore was on...

I need advice -- does anyone know about surgery to cure snoring? Have you had it, or do you know anyone who has had it? I've exhausted all other non-surgical possibilities (nasal strips, C-PAP oxygen masks, different mattresses, sleep positions, etc.) and nothing works for me, so I am considering surgery. The procedure is called "uvulopalatalpharyngoplasty." If you know anything about it, I'd appreciate hearing from you. In essence, I'm trying to find out: "Does this surgery work?"

MONDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- Infant children of parents who are habitual snorers are themselves at increased risk for frequent snoring, a new study reveals. The study also found that young children diagnosed with atopy -- a tendency to develop allergies and asthma -- are also prone to frequent snoring. And African-American children are at elevated risk for chronic snoring, the researchers said. The findings are important, the researchers said, because so-called "sleep-disordered breathing" among children has been previously associated with the development of learning disabilities, heart disease, and metabolic disorders. "Early intervention can reduce morbidity due to sleep-disordered...

MANY anti-snoring products such as nasal strips and special pillows lack scientific proof that they actually work, a consumer study shows. An investigation by Choice magazine has found limited scientific evidence to support claims made by manufacturers. Choice assessed the evidence for nasal strips and dilators, special pillows, essential oils and homeopathic products by consulting medical experts - after asking the manufacturers to support claims of their products' effectiveness. The research found nasal strips and dilators might help a small number of people whose snoring was caused by certain types of nasal obstruction. But sleep experts considered most evidence for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Kept awake at night by a snoring partner? The answer to your woes could lie -- believe it or not -- with the Australian didgeridoo. Researchers in Switzerland examined 25 patients who suffered from snoring and moderate obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, both common sleep disorders. Half the group were given daily lessons in playing the didgeridoo, a wind instrument about 1.5 meters (yards) long which originated in northern Australia and is traditionally made from the trunk of a tree hollowed out by termites. The study, published in the British Medical Journal's online edition on Friday, found that...

Doctors in Norway say they have invented a cure for snoring. The cure involves stiffening the palate to stop the vibrations that cause snoring. The process involves inserting three tiny threads made from Dacron - a tough polymer used in the clothing industry - into the soft palate. The whole procedure last two minutes and is performed under local anaesthetic. Doctors at St Olav's Hospital in Trondheim pioneered the procedure in conjuction with an American company. Norway put snoring on the political agenda earlier this year after offshore oil workers complained of roommates keeping them awake at night. The problem...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden. The impact of active smoking, passive smoking and obesity on habitual snoring in the population is mainly unknown. We aimed to study the relationship of habitual snoring with active and passive tobacco smoking in a population-based sample. A total of 15,555 (71%) of 21,802 randomly-selected men and women aged 25 to 54 years from Iceland, Estonia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden answered a postal questionnaire. Habitual snoring, defined as loud and disturbing snoring at least three nights a week was more prevalent among current smokers (24.0%, p<0.0001) and ex-smokers (20.3%, p<0.0001) than in...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Children who snore perform worse at school, according to a new study by German scientists. "Our study clearly showed that snoring has a detrimental effect on children's performance in school," Christian Poets, head of a joint study by the University of Tuebingen and the Hanover Medical School, said on Friday. Scientists monitored the sleeping behavior of 1,144 school children aged between eight and 10 in the western city of Hanover, measuring pulse rates and blood oxygen levels. The study showed that children who snored continually were three to four times as likely as non-snorers to get poor...