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Having Trouble Sleeping?
As much as one-third of the nation's population suffers from sleep disorders. The leading cause of sleep disorders is emotional turmoil, causing us to experience such sleep-related problems as insomnia, nightmares, and difficulty sleeping through...
Dream Talk
In their deepest sense, dreams reflect the condition of our evolving human souls. Dreams over a lifetime may appear like paper-thin cross sections of a 300-foot redwood tree. The patterns running through its veins, from roots to treetop, reveal...
"Power Nap" Prevents Burnout--and Morning Sleep Helps Perfect a Skill
Evidence is mounting that sleep--even a nap--appears to enhance information processing and learning. New experiments by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grantee Alan Hobson, M.D., Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., and colleagues at Harvard...
Is Your Child Hyperactive--or Just Tired?
A recently published study suggests that many children thought to be hyperactive and perhaps having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) may, in fact, just be overtired because of fitful sleeping or heavy snoring. ADHD, which is...
Inter-Relationships Of Sleep, Fatigue, and HIV/AIDS
Between 850,000 and 950,000 Americans are living with HIV infection and suffering from devastating effects on health, performance, and overall quality of life (QOL). As new therapies extend life expectancy of HIV patients, long term adverse impacts...
Self-Medicating to Treat Insomnia
A government expert panel on insomnia recently concluded that too many Americans are using alcohol, antihistamines, and other drugs to self-medicate their insomnia problems, the Chicago Sun-Times reported June 16, 2005.Around one in three Americans...