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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) is a form of sleepwalking where patients will enact their dream while asleep. This dream enactment behavior is not normal, as usually we are completely paralyzed whi le...
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This news concerns me both as a health issue and an issue of public safety: a survey of nearly 5,000 police officers in the United States and Canada revealed that these law enforcement professionals a re...
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A few, small studies have shown that regular exercise can reduce the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as determined by the number of times the upper airway collapses per hour of sleep (AHI). There...
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There’s still a great deal of information about the effects of sleep on the brain that we don’t yet understand, so any research that sheds light on this subject is exciting and potentially important...
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Studies have shown a link between short sleep duration and obesity, but few studies have researched food intake and sleep patterns. There is a research study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine that...
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Here’s some truly fascinating sleep news, the kind that shows just how deeply sleep can affect every facet of our lives. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley examined the relatio nship...
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I wrote recently about the relationship between sleep and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain syndrome, and the about important—and complicated—relationship between sleep and pain. Now there&rsqu o...
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There is an interesting article in the November edition of the Sleep Journal about the relationship between loneliness and sleep. The study authors describe a previous study that showed that loneline ss...
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Listen up, partners and spouses of people with sleep apnea: Treating obstructive sleep apnea with CPAP works best when it’s a team effort. That’s the takeaway from a recent research review which...
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Sleep problems are very common in people that have fibromyalgia syndrome(FMS). I saw an abstract for a study published in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism that was done to determine the prevalenc e...
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