I’m Sleeping! How did that happen?

I don’t sleep a lot. That was sort of my mantra. Whenever people got together and the topic of how many hours we actually sleep, need to sleep, etc., came up, my response never varied. “I don’t sleep a lot. I sleep five hours usually.” I had tons of stuff connected to insomnia, too: that [...]

Jiminy Cricket is an Insomniac!!!

Sleep and Aging– A Lecture

Barbara Phillips, MD
Overview
•Normal sleep
•Sleep and aging
•Insomnia and aging
•Sleep-disordered breathing and aging
•Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (RLS / PLMD)
•Education about sleep and aging
•Ethical issues
•Summary

Lack of sleep ‘hits women harder’

This article 1st appeared on the BBC Health News Website July 1, 2009

Experts say we should sleep for eight hours a night

Lack of sleep raises a woman’s risk of heart disease more than it does for a man, research suggests.
Sleeping less than the recommended eight hours a night has been linked to a raised risk [...]

Secrets of sleep – the man who never slept

Secrets of sleep – Sleep deprivation – Peter Tripp Pt1 & 2