Combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) almost universally suffer sleep problems — with more cases of sleep apnea than might otherwise be expected — U.S. Army researchers found. In a group of 135 young, otherwise healthy combat veterans with PTSD, 98.5 percent reported sleep complaints, Nick Orr, M.D., and colleagues at the Walter Reed [...]
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Obstructive sleep apnea patients adhere to positive airway pressure treatment just as well whether diagnosis and titration occur at home or in the sleep laboratory, researchers found.
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PA State Rep. Robert Donatucci was elected to his 16th House term last week and died in his sleep this week. His doctors said sleep apnea was cause.
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Drinking tart cherry juice may help reduce the severity of insomnia and time spent awake after going to sleep, according to a published study
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Researchers at Allen Institute for Brain Science and SRI International published a study of the effects of sleep deprivation on brain gene expression.
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A study published in the Oct. 15, 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that adults with fibromyalgia had a much higher prevalence and risk of restless legs syndrome than healthy controls.
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Although our clocks are being moved back one hour, when we wake tomorrow morning (November 7), will you have “gained” an extra hour of the day?
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A recent article on the Men’s Health website told a cautionary tale of a man named Tom Zehmisch. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 46. Only four months earlier, he had participated in a national swim meet and he died while participating in a triathlon. To look at Tom, you would not have thought him to be at risk of obstructive sleep apnea.
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A study in the November 1, 2010 issue of the journal Sleep found that vulnerability to sleep deprivation is influenced by the interaction between waking social activity and individual personality traits. Results show that extraverts who were exposed to 12 hours of social interaction were more vulnerable to subsequent sleep deprivation than those who were exposed to an identical period of isolated activity.
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