As panic-buyers continue to leave supermarket shelves bare, University of South Australia sleep experts are reminding people that it’s sleep that they need to stockpile if they want to ensure the best possible health during the pandemic. UniSA sleep and fatigue researcher, Dr. Raymond Matthews says prioritizing sleep will help protect you from COVID-19 by boosting your immune system. “As […] At a time like this, social media can become a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can be a vital source of connection, of sharing information and social interaction – which is more important than ever now that most of our physical interactions with our friends and family have stopped. On the other hand, it’s all too easy to […] One of the hallmark symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder is intrusive thoughts. All my life, I’ve felt their constant bombardment. My mind is like a crowded room, and the voices are all shouting different things. “That’s not clean enough—it might be infected.” “Did they just cough? Are they sick?” “I don’t have enough of these things—what if the worst happens, and […] Thailand’s government agreed Tuesday to declare an emergency to take stricter measures to control the coronavirus outbreak that has infected hundreds of people in the Southeast Asian country. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said his Cabinet agreed to put a one-month state of emergency into effect on Thursday. The move will give the government enforcement powers not normally available to it. […] There are more than 11,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S., and nearly 300 in Georgia. That state number has been increasing by about 20% each day, which means the likelihood of being infected rises. Many articles talk about the incubation time—how long it takes from when you’re infected until you see symptoms—but few tell you how long […] Mammals experience rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep. While the hypothalamus and brainstem are known to be critical regulators of sleep, the precise mechanism is not fully understood. New work in mice has found that a widely distributed network of neurotensinergic neurons regulates NREM sleep, which also implicates a critical role of the neuropeptide neurotensin. A normal sleep […] Advances in gene sequencing have allowed scientists to trace and monitor the COVID-19 pandemic faster than any previous outbreak. However, gaps in our knowledge of how coronaviruses work has made it difficult to understand what makes the new coronavirus special. When the new coronavirus (formally known as SARS-CoV-2) was identified in China in January, scientists around the world were ready […] The coronavirus pandemic means we’re having to radically adjust to a new normal. It’s a situation we’ve never encountered before, so it’s no wonder that a lot of us are struggling with our mental health as a result. Add in the impact of self-isolation, the fear associated with illness, and the loss of work, and we’re tunnelling towards a mental […] Throughout the 20th century, mortality rates have declined worldwide. The improvements in life expectancy are so impressive that Princeton economist and Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton dedicated a whole book, “The Great Escape,” to how it happened. But the richest country in world history has seen a reversal of fortune. In the past few years, life expectancy in the United States […] When she was 33, Eileen Rubin learned firsthand what it’s like to have acute respiratory distress syndrome or ARDS, a life-threatening condition she had never heard of. It’s about to become more widely known. ARDS is one of the most severe complications caused by the new coronavirus, and early estimates show it could affect perhaps 1 in 100 people with […]
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