Published: February 19, 2009
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Take anyone with a psychiatric disorder and the chances are they don’t sleep well. The result of their illness, you might think. Now this long-standing assumption is being turned on its head, with the radical suggestion that poor sleep might actually cause some psychiatric illnesses or lead people to behave in ways that doctors mistake for mental problems. The good news is that sleep treatments could help or even cure some of these patients. Shockingly, it also means that many people, including children, could be taking psychoactive drugs that cannot help them and might even be harmful. Link to read this article
Source: New Scientist
Published: January 2, 2009
Desperately seeking a good night’s sleep, insomniacs spend more money on alcohol than medical help and sleep aids combined, according to a study published today in the journal Sleep. But experts say turning to the bottle is the last thing you should do if you can’t fall asleep at night. Link to continue reading
Source: Scientific American
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Published: November 18, 2008
Sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people recover learning they otherwise thought they had forgotten over the course of a day, research at the University of Chicago shows.
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. [continue reading…]
Published: November 3, 2008
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You couldn’t ignore the news if you tried. The economic crisis is all over magazines, newspapers and television news programs. So, it’s no wonder people are feeling anxious and stressed out.
But women may be reacting more strongly than men. A recent survey from the American Psychological Association (APA) called “Stress in America” says women are expressing fear about the current financial situation more than men. [continue reading…]
