When the insomnia that we are just not doing, just to quickly go to the "kingdom of Morpheus". And elephants believe, and sheep - and in the end still almost until morning to turn. That would be a universal cure for insomnia. But, unfortunately, it has not come up (if not take pills). But you can make yourself sleep through other effective methods of insomnia.

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What Is The Connection Between Sleep Apnea, Stroke And Death?

Obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain and eventually harms the brain's ability to modulate these changes and prevent damage to itself. The findings may help explain why people with sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and to die in their sleep.

Societal, Economic Burden Of Insomnia Is High

The indirect costs of untreated insomnia are significantly greater than the direct costs associated with its treatment. The study estimates that the total annual cost of insomnia in the province of Quebec is 6.5 billion Canadian dollars, representing about one percent of the province's $228.5 billion in gross domestic product for 2002. The largest proportions of all insomnia-related expenses are attributed to lost job productivity, absences from work and alcohol used as a sleep aid.

Arousal Frequency In Heart Failure Found To Be Unique Sleep Problem

Frequent arousals from sleep that occur in heart failure patients with central sleep apnea (CSA) may reflect the presence of another underlying arousal disorder rather than being a defensive mechanism to terminate apneas. Findings show that factors other than central sleep apnea may contribute to poor sleep quality in heart-failure patients.

Skipping Sleep May Signal Problems For Coronary Arteries

One extra hour of sleep per night appears to decrease the risk of coronary artery calcification, an early step down the path to cardiovascular disease. Calcified arteries were found in 27 percent of those who slept less than five hours a night, 11 percent of those who slept five to seven hours and six percent of those who slept more than seven hours a night.

Sleep Disorders: Warning Sign For Neurodegenerative Disease?

People with a sleep disorder that causes them to kick or cry out during their sleep may be at greater risk of developing dementia or Parkinson's disease, according to a new study.

Allergies Alone Not Associated With Increased Risk Of Nighttime Breathing Problems

Allergic rhinitis does not appear to be associated with snoring or daytime sleepiness, but individuals with obstructed nasal passages are likely to experience both regardless of whether they have allergies, according to a new report.

Poor Sleep Quality Linked To Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression (PPD) can lead to poor sleep quality, recent research shows. The study shows that depression symptoms worsen in PPD patients when their quality of sleep declines.

Snoring Intensity Linked To Subjective Measure Of Sleepiness In Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients

A new study shows that objectively measured snoring intensity is correlated with subjective sleepiness independent of the apnea-hypopnea index in patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea.

New Medication Brings Hope Of Jet Lag Cure

Researchers have found a new drug with the potential to alleviate jet lag and sleep disorders caused by shift work.

Practice As Well As Sleep May Help Birds Learn New Songs

The reorganization of neural activity during sleep helps young songbirds to develop the vocal skills they display while awake. Practice, or auditory feedback, may also play a role in learning.

CPAP Improves Sleeping Glucose Levels In Type 2 Diabetes Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

A new study suggests that screening type 2 diabetes patients for obstructive sleep apnea and treating those who have OSA with continuous positive airway pressure therapy could improve the management of their hyperglycemia and might favorably influence their long-term prognosis.

High Levels Of Prenatal Smoking Exposure Affect Sleep Patterns In Preterm Neonates

A new study is the first to show that high levels of prenatal smoking exposure strongly modify sleep patterns in preterm neonates, which places infants at a higher risk for developmental difficulties that could persist throughout early and middle childhood.

Body Clock Linked To Diabetes And High Blood Sugar In New Genome-wide Study

Diabetes and high levels of blood sugar may be linked to abnormalities in a person's body clock and sleep patterns, according to a genome-wide association study published in the journal Nature Genetics.

How Shift Workers Can Improve Job Performance And Implement Realistic Sleep Schedule

The use of light exposure therapy, dark sunglasses and a strict sleep schedule can help night-shift workers create a "compromise circadian phase position," which may result in increased performance and alertness during night shifts while still allowing adequate nighttime sleep on days off.

Up To 10% Of Children Start School Suffering From Sleep Disturbances

Up to 10% of children starting school suffer from sleep disturbances and these may lead to poor performance or behavioral difficulties.

Treating Sleep Apnea In Alzheimer's Patients Helps Cognition

Continuous positive airway pressure treatment seems to improve cognitive functioning in patients with Alzheimer's disease who also suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial.

Molecular Partnership Controls Daily Rhythms, Body Metabolism

A research team has discovered a key molecular partnership that coordinates body rhythms and metabolism. Their findings suggest that HDAC via NCoR controls the body's internal clock, and therefore metabolism, through an epigenetic change.

Exercise And Rest Reduce Cancer Risk

Exercise is good for more than just your waistline. A recent study suggests that regular physical activity can lower a woman's overall risk of cancer -- but only if she gets a good night's sleep. Otherwise, lack of sleep can undermine exercise's cancer prevention benefits.

New Research Sheds Light On Fly Sleep Circuit

Researchers have identified a specific set of wake-promoting neurons in fruit flies that are analogous to cells in the much more complex sleep circuit in humans. The study demonstrates that in flies, as in mammals, the sleep circuit is intimately linked to the circadian clock and that the brain's strategies to govern sleep are evolutionarily ancient.

26 Percent Of Sleepless Children Become Overweight

One quarter of children who sleep fewer than 10 hours a night become overweight by age 6, according to new research. The research team analyzed a sample of 1,138 children and found: 26 percent of kids who didn't sleep enough were overweight, 18.5 percent carried extra weight or a body mass index of 25 to 30, while 7.4 percent were obese with a body mass index greater than 30.

Sleep Helps People Learn Complicated Tasks

Sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people recover learning they otherwise thought they had forgotten. Using a test that involved learning to play video games, researchers showed for the first time that people who had "forgotten" how to perform a complex task 12 hours after training found that those abilities were restored after a night's sleep.

Primary Insomnia Linked To Neurochemical Abnormality In Young And Middle-aged Adults

A new study in the journal Sleep is the first demonstration of a specific neurochemical abnormality in adults with primary insomnia, providing greater insight to the limited understanding of the condition's pathology.

Getting Little Sleep May Be Associated With Risk Of Heart Disease

Sleeping less than seven and a half hours per day may be associated with future risk of heart disease, according to a new article. In addition, a combination of little sleep and overnight elevated blood pressure appears to be associated with an increased risk of the disease.

Smokers See Decline In Ability To Smell, Rise In Laryngitis, And Upper Airway Issues

New research gives more reasons to kick smoking and smokeless tobacco products. New research shows that cigarette smoking is linked to upper airway symptoms ("smoker's nose") and the loss of smokers' ability to smell common odors. Most alarmingly second-hand smoke plays a role in the rise of cases of "environmental laryngitis."

Office Workers Given Blue Light To Help Alertness

Changing traditional white-light lighting to blue-enriched white light helped office workers stay more alert and less sleepy during the day, in a new study. The research also showed improvements in subjective measures of positive moods, work performance, fatigue in the evening, irritability, ability to concentrate and focus and eye strain. Furthermore the workers reported improved sleep at night.

Night-time Driving Over Long Periods Increases Risk Of Accidents

Does driving at night affect the risk of accidents? Drowsiness resulting from a lack of sleep is a recognized risk factor which causes traffic accidents. But what happens if drivers combine extended driving and sleep deprivation?

Grades In College Directly Linked To Health-related Behaviors

Lack of sleep, excessive television/computer screen time, stress, gambling, alcohol and tobacco use and other health-related issues are taking a toll on college students' academic performance.

Respiratory Rhythms Can Help Predict Insomnia

The breathing and heart rates and cortisol levels of women with metastatic breast cancer can be used to predict if they'll suffer from chronic insomnia and sleep disruptions, a common complaint from patients who want to maintain their quality of life, according to a new study.

Human Brain Still Awake, Even During Deep Sleep

Sleep in humans is divided in two main phases: non-REM sleep, which occupies most of our early sleep night, and REM sleep, during which our dreams prevail. Non-REM sleep is usually considered as a compensatory 'resting' state for the brain, following the intense waking brain activity. Now, new research challenges previous brain imaging studies which showed that the brain was less active during periods of non-REM sleep as compared to periods of wakefulness.

Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea Linked To High Fat Diets And Decreased Physical Activity In Women

Unrelated to obesity, people with severe SDBs consume a more unhealthy diet, which may be a factor contributing to greater cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. These findings were most evident among women.

Landmark Study Links Sleep, Memory Problems In Elderly African-Americans

A landmark study shows that African-American seniors who have trouble falling asleep are at higher risk of having memory problems -- raising the possibility that identifying and treating sleep difficulties in the elderly may help preserve their cognitive functioning. The study is the first to examine the link between sleep and cognitive functioning in older African-Americans.

Insomnia In Women With Breast Cancer Linked To Heart Rate Dysregulation

A new study shows that respiratory sinus arrhythmia is a significant predictor of insomnia in women with breast cancer and confirmed that longer nocturnal wake episodes were associated with a flatter diurnal cortisol slope.

New Light On Link Between Snoring And Cognitive Deficits In Children

About two-thirds of children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) -- snoring or obstructive sleep apnea -- have some degree of cognitive deficit, but the severity of the cognitive deficit has been notoriously difficult to correlate to the severity of the SDB, suggesting that other important issues may be at play, or that the right factors were simply not being measured.

New Device Aims To Give Sleep Apnea Sufferers Relief And Rest

Having a good night's sleep is proving elusive for six percent of the population. They have sleep apnea, which causes them to stop breathing in bouts throughout the night. Now, a researcher at Temple University School of Medicine is studying an experimental device to treat people with positional sleep apnea.

Learning To Shape Your Brain Activity

A new study shows that the successful manipulation of sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) amplitude by instrumental SMR conditioning (ISC) improved sleep quality as well as declarative learning. ISC might thus be considered a promising nonpharmacological treatment for primary insomnia.

Adolescent Insomnia Linked To Depression And Substance Abuse During Adolescence And Young Adulthood

A new study shows that adolescent insomnia symptoms are associated with depression, suicide ideation and attempts, and the use of alcohol, cannabis and other drugs such as cocaine.

Changes In Sex Steroids Associated With Menopause

A new study shows that the increased rate of follicle stimulating hormone change that occurs during menopause is associated with increased objective sleep duration but poor subjective sleep quality.

Restless Nights Put Older Adults At Risk For Depression Recurrence

Poor sleep among the elderly is common, but it may also be a precursor of the first signs of depression.

Home Sleep Test For Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea Deemed Reliable

A small, portable device used for the home diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea has been deemed very reliable, according to new research.

What You Smell As You Sleep Influences Your Dreams

What you smell as you sleep has the power to influence your dreams, says new research.

Older Women Who Get Little Sleep May Have A Higher Risk Of Falling

Women age 70 and older who sleep five hours or less per night may be more likely to experience falls than those who sleep more than seven to eight hours per night, according to a new report. Additionally, the use of sleep medications does not appear to influence the association between sleep and risk of falling.

What A Sleep Study Can Reveal About Fibromyalgia

Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative technologies to work in the sleep lab.

Children With TVs Or Computers In Their Room Sleep Less

Middle school children who have a television or computer in their room sleep less during the school year, watch more TV, play more computer games and surf the net more than their peers who don't.

Mom's Mood, Baby's Sleep: What's The Connection?

If there's one thing that everyone knows about newborn babies, it's that they don't sleep through the night, and neither do their parents. But in fact, those first six months of life are crucial to developing the regular sleeping and waking patterns, known as circadian rhythms, that a child will need for a healthy future. Some children may start life with the sleep odds stacked against them, though, say sleep experts who study the issue.

Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body

Loss of sleep, even for a few short hours during the night, can prompt one?s immune system to turn against healthy tissue and organs. Losing sleep for even part of one night can trigger the key cellular pathway that produces tissue-damaging inflammation according to new research. The findings suggest a good night?s sleep can ease the risk of both heart disease and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Brain Imaging Links Chronic Insomnia To Reversible Cognitive Deficits Without Changes In Behavior

A neuroimaging study has found that cognitive processes related to verbal fluency are compromised in people with insomnia despite the absence of a behavioral deficit. These specific brain function alterations can be reversed, however, through non-pharmacological treatment with sleep therapy.

Periodic Limb Movement During Sleep Is Less Common In African-Americans; Associated With Insomnia

A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep is the first to objectively determine the prevalence of periodic limb movements during sleep in a population-based sample, finding a lower prevalence of PLMS in African-Americans and a higher rate of insomnia complaints in people with PLMS.

Heavy Snoring Is An Independent Risk Factor For Carotid Atherosclerosis

Objectively measured heavy snoring is an independent risk factor for early carotid atherosclerosis, which may progress to be associated with stroke. The prevalence of carotid atherosclerosis, a leading cause of stroke, increases significantly with the severity of snoring.

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