Publications by authors named "Ujas A Patel"
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- - Sleep studies in small subsistence societies, like the BaYaka foragers in the Republic of Congo, show that human sleep patterns are adaptable, with significant differences observed based on their living conditions.
- - An analysis of 51 individuals revealed high sleep fragmentation and short sleep durations, with men experiencing poorer sleep quality in village settings, while women in forest camps exhibited longer and better-quality sleep.
- - The research emphasizes the need to take into account variations in sleep-wake patterns within cultures, particularly due to differing social and economic roles between genders and consistent circadian rhythms.
Sleep in the primate order remains understudied, with quantitative estimates of sleep duration available for less than 10% of primate species. Even fewer species have had their sleep synchronously quantified with meteorological data, which have been shown to influence sleep-wake regulatory behaviors. We report the first sleep duration estimates in two captive gibbon species, the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) and the pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) (N = 52 nights).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe study of companion (pet) dogs is an area of great translational potential, as they share a risk for many conditions that afflict humans. Among these are conditions that affect sleep, including chronic pain and cognitive dysfunction. Significant advancements have occurred in the ability to study sleep in dogs, including development of non-invasive polysomnography; however, basic understanding of dog sleep patterns remains poorly characterized.
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