FLINDERS UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DR ALEXANDER SWEETMAN, FLINDERS UNIVERSITY view moreCREDIT: FLINDERS UNIVERSITY Are sleeping pills the only solution for insomnia? Not according to Flinders University’s Dr Alexander Sweetman, who says that using self-guided digital behavioural therapy is an alternative solution that should be considered. Despite a wealth of evidence supporting the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural...
by NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Snoring is often a sign of a very serious condition known as obstructive sleep apnea, a common disorder marked by loud snoring and stops and restarts in breathing. Until now it was thought that the louder the snore, the worse the sleep apnea. But current and ongoing research...
by FAPESP Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainParkinson’s disease patients who experience freezing of gait (a sudden inability to initiate or continue movement, often resulting in a fall) wake up several times during the night, feel sleepy during the day, and have REM sleep behavior disorder. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep plays a role in the maintenance of...
by Mayo Clinic Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainEarly one morning, while checking on a slumbering patient at the Center for Sleep Medicine, Erik St. Louis, M.D., noticed something peculiar. The patient, a woman in her early 60’s, had started running beneath her bedsheets. As her eyelids fluttered, her legs kicked into gear, slowly at first but...
(HealthDay)—Sleep disorders seem to be highly prevalent among children with migraine and are associated with higher headache severity, according to a study published online Aug. 14 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. Alessandra Voci, from the Tor Vergata University of Rome, and colleagues examined the correlation between headache features and sleep in pediatric migraine. Parents of children and...
by Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sleep disorders are associated with significantly higher rates of health care utilization, conservatively placing an additional $94.9 billion in costs each year to the United States health care system, according to a new study from researchers at Mass Eye and Ear, a member hospital of Mass General Brigham....
Novel technology turns inflammation on and off, affecting body clock in mice NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — Inflammation, which is the root cause of autoimmune disorders including arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, and Crohn’s disease, has unexpected effects on body clock function and can lead to sleep and shiftwork-type disorders, a new Northwestern Medicine study in...
