Insomnia –”I can’t… sleep…”

“This article by Dr Gordon Coates was originally published at http://www.wanterfall.com as a free resource for all to use.” Can’t go to sleep. Can’t stay asleep. Don’t sleep deeply. Don’t sleep well. Wake up early. Wake up still tired. Wake up feeling anxious. Wake up feeling depressed. The list goes on… How often have you [...]

Trouble Sleeping? Just Breathe

This article 1st appeared at LIVESTRONG.COM, on Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:27pm PDT By Brad Kearns If your mind is racing and you are having difficulty falling asleep, a few minutes of simple but effective breathing exercises can help calm your nervous system on a chemical level and lead to greater success in hitting the sack. [...]

Dr. Breus on Teens and Sleep Deprivation

Help the kids with Sleep Hygiene

  Randy Townsend September 25 at 12:44pm Here are a group of 8th graders in TX who want to actively start a Sleep Hygiene Project in their local school district to help promote healthy sleep habits in teenagers. They have a website called: http://www.projectsiesta.com/ These youngsters would welcome your input/support for their project. They can [...]

Stress takes toll on health of Boomers

By Sonja Isger Palm Beach Post Staff Writer This article was originally Posted: 1:12 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, 2009 on palmbeachpost.com   Dr. Mark Rogovin doesn’t need to check in with CNN to know the tanking economy is taking a toll on the public.The waiting room of his Boynton Beach family practice is evidence of it. “They’re tired [...]

Cost-Effective Ways to Fight Insomnia

By LESLEY ALDERMAN Published: June 5, 2009 HOW much would you pay for a good night’s sleep? If the sleep peddlers have their way, quite a bit. Sleep is a $23.9 billion industry — if you count things as diverse as mattresses, white noise machines and prescription pills — and it has more than doubled [...]

The Fourth Kind – Alien Abduction

The Fourth Kind – Alien Abduction http://www.facebook.com/TheFourthKind?v=wall The movie trailer states, “it started as a sleep disorders study”. Have you ever had a patient who claims to have been visited by or abducted by aliens? I had one who claimed both but he also talked to GOD, and I mean the shaking hands pat on [...]

Elderly Women Sleep Better Than They Think, Men Sleep Worse

    ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2009) — A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report that their sleep is shorter and poorer. Women reported less and poorer sleep than men on all of the subjective measures, including a 13.2 [...]

Alcoholism’s Effect On Sleep Persists During Long Periods Of Sobriety

This article appeared on Medical News Today webiste on 02 Oct 2009     A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that long-term alcoholism affects sleep even after long periods of abstinence, and the pattern of this effect is similar in both men and women. Results indicate that in long-term alcoholics who had [...]

Lesson from Michael Jackson’s Death( Insomnia)

Things I teach my patients about sleep every night!!!   Lesson from Michael Jackson’s Death   Carlo Allegri, Getty Images Insomnia — difficulty falling or staying asleep — can wreak havoc on people’s lives. And with the coroner’s finding that Michael Jackson died from a lethal dose of the anesthesia medication propofol (Diprivan), which the [...]

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