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How Working Nights and Sleeping Days Can Impact our Health, Cancer Risk

By Diane Mapes — 2017

New Fred Hutch study sheds more light on how shift work damages our health — and points toward a potential workaround

Read on www.fredhutch.org

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The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

For Dr. Guy Leschziner’s patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep―and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares.

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Guy Leschziner
2019
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The Benefits of a Good Night's Sleep—Shai Marcu

It’s 4 a.m., and the big test is in eight hours. You’ve been studying for days, but you still don’t feel ready.

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2015
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Why Healthy Sleep is Crucial for Academic Success

Many students believe that the more they study, the better they will perform in school, even if that means sacrificing a night of rest.

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2018
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Anticancer: A New Way of Life

David Servan-Schreiber was a rising neuroscientist with his own brain imaging laboratory when, in the middle of an equipment test, he discovered a tumor the size of a walnut in his own brain.

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David Servan-Schreiber
2017
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Depression During and After Cancer—Fireside Friday Season 2 Episode 17

Fireside Fridays is the “cancer content” video series from Teen Cancer America! This week, we talk about depression. Teen Cancer America partners with hospitals throughout the United States to develop specialized facilities and services for teens and young adults with cancer.

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2021
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Returning to “Athlete” after Concussion | Jaclyn Stephens | TEDxCSU

Athletes who have sustained concussions are at a heightened risk for new injuries, including new concussions, when they return to play. This increased risk of new injury is likely due to ineffective evaluation and treatment protocols.

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2019
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell that Changed the Course of Medicine

Hailed as a “riveting,” “stunning,” and “visionary,” The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2025
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The Brain Benefits of Deep Sleep—and How to Get More of It—Dan Gartenberg

There’s nothing quite like a good night’s sleep. What if technology could help us get more out of it? Dan Gartenberg is working on tech that stimulates deep sleep, the most regenerative stage which (among other wonderful things) might help us consolidate our memories and form our personalities.

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2018
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Dr. Gabor Maté on the Connection Between Stress and Disease

In this talk, Dr. Maté shared his insights into how disease can be the body’s way of saying ‘no’ to that which the mind cannot or will not acknowledge.

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Gabor Maté
2019
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