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Uma década de parceria com a ciência do sono em Portugal

Há dez anos, a pesquisadora portuguesa Cátia Reis utiliza os actígrafos da Condor Instruments em pesquisas sobre sono e ritmos

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A Decade of Partnership with Sleep Science in Portugal

For ten years, Portuguese researcher Cátia Reis has used Condor Instruments’ actigraphs in research on sleep and biological rhythms. From

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Why Circadian Rhythms Matter More Than Sleep Duration for Recovery

When it comes to recovery, many people focus on getting enough sleep, but research shows that circadian rhythms play a

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What is the relationship between anxiety and sleep? 

Result of the most diverse neurobehavioral effects, deprivation of sleep it’s the gateway to an enormous range of diseases and

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Jet lag and social jet lag: what it is, what causes it and its consequences for the human body 

Sleeping is fundamental for maintaining human homeostasis and repairing various metabolic, cognitive, and hormonal processes. However, simply sleeping is not

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How is sleep regulated?

Human beings spend around 30% of their lives sleeping and, for this reason, the renowned researcher Allan Rechtschaffen wrote that

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Melatonin: what is its relationship with sleep and biological rhythms?

Melatonin is a hormone found in practically all living organisms and is produced in the pineal gland, secreted into the

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Light therapy and biological rhythms

The organism of living beings is governed by circadian oscillations. In humans, these oscillations are controlled by the suprachiasmatic nucleus

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Night and shift work and health implications

Various functions in the human body exhibit circadian periodicity, such as core body temperature, hormones like cortisol, melatonin, testosterone, and

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Sleep in Athletes

Sports performance encompasses the need to develop different cognitive and physical capacities, such as strength, power, speed, motor coordination, aerobic