Research Articles
Updates about new research publications, funding opportunities, and NIH news
In addition to meeting with legislators on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, April 17, AASM leaders participated in a series of events this week to promote sleep and circadian research at the federal level and to aid the career development of promising young investigators. [...]
A new study found that increases in obesity and severe obesity prevalence have persisted among U.S. adults over the most recent decade, but adjusted linear trends among youth remained nonsignificant. Results show that obesity among adults increased from 33.7% in 2007-2008 to 39.6% in [...]
A resource-related research projects (R24) funding opportunity announcement (PAR-18-694) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages applications that develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches, methods, and investigative teams in basic behavioral, social, and/or biobehavioral research to generate fundamental knowledge of the reciprocal linkages [...]
Sleep researcher Serge Daan passed away on Feb. 9, 2018, according to an announcement from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Daan is remembered for his seminal work in chronobiology, sleep research, psychiatry, physiology, ecology and behavioral biology. Along with Alex Borbély and [...]
The Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) is now accepting late-breaking abstract submissions for presentation at SLEEP 2018 in Baltimore this June. Late-breaking abstracts include high quality, emerging data found between December 2017 and March 2018. Submissions will be accepted through Monday, March 12, 2018. Up [...]
On Feb. 8 the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety released a new research brief suggesting that drowsy driving is involved in up to 9.5% of car crashes, which is much higher than official statistics published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The [...]
The American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) congratulates the three recipients of the 2018 Focused Projects Award. Each recipient will receive up to $20,000 to fund their project. Learn more about the ASMF award programs. Focused Projects Award - Educational “An interdisciplinary sleep [...]
About 58 percent of middle school students and 73 percent of high school students report getting insufficient sleep on an average school night, according to a new analysis published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the first report to [...]
On Thursday, Feb. 1, the Sleep Research Society (SRS) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) are hosting a free webinar, NIH Clinical Trials Policies. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made changes to its clinical trials policies that affect all human [...]
New evidence-based guidelines in the journal Prehospital Emergency Care provide guidance to administrators of emergency medical services (EMS) on how to mitigate workplace fatigue. “Fatigue is widespread in EMS and is not isolated to one type of EMS operation or category of EMS clinician,” [...]