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...colleagues examined how rest - specifically, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep - influences our ability to read emotions in other people's faces. In the small analysis of 36 adults, volunteers were asked to interpret the facial expressions of people in photographs, following either a 60- or 90-minute nap during the day or with no nap. Participants who had reached REM sleep (when dreaming most frequently occurs) during their nap were better able to identify expressions of positive emotions like happiness in other people, compared with participants who did not achieve REM sleep or did not nap at all. Those volunteers...
...colleagues at Harvard Medical School, which was published in the journal Current Biology, found that in people who were sleep deprived, activity in the prefrontal lobe - a region of the brain involved in controlling emotion - was significantly diminished. He suggests that a similar response may be occurring in the nap-deprived volunteers, albeit to a lesser extent, and that it may have its roots in evolution. "If you're walking through the jungle and you're tired, it might benefit you more to be hypersensitive to negative things," he says. The idea is that with little mental energy to spare...
...Karroubi was pitted against Ahmadinejad once before, in 2005. While votes were being tallied, he claims, he took a two-hour nap and "awoke to see 1 million votes shifted." In the end, Ahmadinejad made it to the second round by only about 640,000 votes over Karroubi. "Last time, I took a nap after my morning prayer. This time, I'll stay up and read the Koran," Karroubi said smugly to a gathering of reporters three days before the election. (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...here is the Beach House Inn. The 34-room, antiques-filled B&B across from Kennebunk Beach feels just like Ye Olde New England house, except with better bathrooms. Bicycles, beach chairs and canoes are available for use, as is a wraparound porch, where you can feel free to nap or read. Rates start at $209 per night, including breakfast, afternoon tea and evening port and sherry. If you stay three nights, you'll get the fourth night free through June 30. 211 Beach Avenue, Kennebunk, Maine...
...give up their exhausting schedules, which many deem necessary for learning. Dr. Erika Roshanravan, a first-year resident in the family-medicine program at the University of Washington in Seattle, agrees that getting more sleep is crucial but thinks it makes little sense to mandate a five-hour nap in the middle of a shift. With patients' cases still fresh in the mind, and with the awareness of having get back to work soon, Roshanravan thinks few residents would actually get any rest. A better solution would be to shorten residents' workweeks while lengthening the term of the residency overall...