A full moon may be to blame for sleepless nights after all. Scientists at the University of Basel, Switzerland, say they have found the first reliable evidence that sleep patterns are influenced by lunar changes. The study, published in Current Biology, shows brain activity related to deep sleep in volunteers dropped by 30 per cent around the full moon. The study subjects also took longer to fall asleep and had shorter nights. "It could be important," said Eric Chudler, executive director of the Centre for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. The Swiss researchers are not "saying the moon controls the person's sleep pattern; they're saying the body has an internal clock that's similar to the lunar cycle. It's different to the traditional myth." Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/cant-sleep-could-be-the-moon-cycle-20130728-2qsk6.html#ixzz2aLzEyRky
