As always, here are the Speed Sleep team’s favorite sleep-related links of the week:

Reuters Health reports that sleep quality may drop with age, but the harmful effects might be diminished.
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Like most people, you have probably experienced the unpleasant feeling that occurs when your alarm goes off and you’re still exhausted. You think “man, I need to get to bed earlier” or “I need to get more sleep”. However, unless you are sleeping six hours or less a night, you are incorrect: you don’t need more sleep, you need better sleep.
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It is not at all surprising to us that a recent sleep study found that altering your bedtime habits can improve your sleep and fix minor sleeping problems.  Research performed by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care found that small changes can make a big difference in the quality of your sleep. 
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Every Friday we post our favorite sleep related links - here are this week’s top picks from around the web:

Are you a new mother Participate in an important sleep study about new motherhood, fatigue, and sleep quality.
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Labor Day weekend is one of the biggest driving weekends of the year, with millions of Americans heading out to vacation homes or on quick getaways.  However, many of them drive while sleep deprived - probably because they want to make the most of their time!  Besides, you don’t get a vacation from sleep disorders or sleep problems.  Unfortunately for them, driving while drowsy has been shown to be just as dangerous as driving drunk.
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A new study has found that children and teens who get less sleep or suffer from sleep problems are more likely to be overweight or even obese, according to a report from the Archives of General Psychiatry (a JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - publication).
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It is Friday, so here are Speed Sleep’s favorite sleep related links.  Have a suggestion for next week’s list?  Leave it in the comments!

The Sleep Doctor (Michael Breus at the Insomnia Blog) reports that a new study conducted in the Netherlands found that increasing the surface temperature of your skin improves the quality of your sleep; or that warmer skin equals cozier sleep.
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A recent sleep study has found that both the quality and quantity of our sleep plays a key role in determining what we remember - and what we forget.
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It is probably not surprising that numerous studies have found that proper sleep hygiene leads to improved sleep and can help fix sleeping problems; however, many individuals fail to take advantage of this finding. Moreover, despite the fact that improving sleep hygiene is fairly simple, many people simply ignore the basic steps and use prescription or over-the-counter sleep medications instead.
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Hospitals, universities, and private research teams perform a variety of sleep studies every year, and their purpose ranges from relatively benign (but unpleasant) problems such as excessive snoring to life-threatening sleep disorders like sleep apnea. 
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