Study Challenges Stereotype Linking Menstrual Cycles to Negative Mood, Blames Poor Sleep Instead

Menstrual cycles alone do not have a direct effect on mood in healthy young women with regular cycles, finds a new University of California, Irvine (UCI)-led study that points to sleep as the culprit instead.  Poor sleep, researchers discovered, is to blame for negatively shifting emotional states directly before and during periods. Findings, published in…

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AASM to Certify Autoscoring Software for Sleep Stage Accuracy

Only stage scoring is being evaluated in the pilot program. Autoscoring software makers must pay a $7,500 fee to apply for the certification. According to Van Hout, sleep facilities and patients can be confident that any software achieving certification performs equivalent to or better than human scorers when evaluating sleep stages.  Building Trust in Autoscoring…

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