Rocking adults to sleep

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Lack of sleep or poor sleep is a problem that affects 1 in 3 people in the UK and America. Insufficient sleep is not only a health issue, contributing to heart disease, diabetes and obesity, but also an economic one. There's the direct costs of treating sleep disorders and their numerous side effects, plus the costs associated with reduced productivity, time off work and injuries resulting from fatigue. With such a big problem at hand, we need to think of a solution outside the box. Mariana Campos spoke with Dr Aurore Perrault, formerly from the University of Geneva, now at the Sleep, Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory at Concordia University in Montreal. Aurore and her coauthors have just published a study that could rock this problem to its core.

31 Jan 2019 English United Kingdom Science

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