The Risks of Insufficient Sleep
BY HealthAfter50 Getting a good night’s sleep is often more easily said than done. The realities of modern life mean that we have far more distractions and sleep stealers than ever before. We can work, shop, and bank 24 hours a day right from our living rooms. It doesn’t get easier as we get older. With age, we tend to sleep more lightly and for fewer hours, although our sleep needs don’t change. Contrary to what some sleep-deprived folks may claim, you cannot “train” your body to require less sleep. You become sleep deprived when you don’t get sufficient sleep to …
Are you a sleep procrastinator?
Sleep experts say our devices are keeping us awake for longer, which affects our sleep and health. So why on earth do we do it? By Richard Gray | 12 September 2017 | BBC.com What was the last thing you did before drifting off last night? You were probably on a device: reading emails, surfing the web or checking social media. You’re not alone. A study by the National Sleep Foundation estimates 48% of American adults use gadgets such as tablets or laptops in bed and studies in other countriesshow this is even more prevalent among younger adults. But snuggling up with electronic devices is ruining …
Can’t use CPAP? Try these apnea remedies
by Sam Wood, Staff Writer Obstructive sleep apnea, with its often raucous snoring, can place a severe strain on a romantic relationship, driving partners into separate bedrooms. It can also take a dramatic physical toll, leading to high blood pressure, stroke, cardiac arrhythmia, and coronary-artery disease. Problem is, most sufferers can’t tolerate the first line of apnea treatment. Nearly half of all patients prescribed a CPAP machine give up on it within a year, said Maurits Boon, an ear, nose, and throat specialist who focuses on sleep medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, uses mild …
Undiagnosed sleep apnea caused 2 NYC train crashes. Could you have sleep apnea, too?
Updated: SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 — 12:17 PM EDT | Philly.com Photo: WAVEBREAKMEDIA/DREAMSTIME/TNS) Snoring is often associated with a sleep disorder called obstructive sleep apnea. by Mari A. Schaefer, Staff Writer @MariSchaefer | mschaefer@phillynews.com Undiagnosed sleep apnea was recently cited as a probable cause in the crash of two New York City commuter trains. The engineers, who were diagnosed after the crashes, had no memory of the events that killed one person and injured more than 200 others. The National Transportation Safety Board reported that sleep apnea is a probable cause of 10 other highway and rail accidents in the last 17 years, according to the Associated Press. Sleep apnea is …
Are you a snorer? Your immune system is at risk, new study in Oman reveals
September 19, 2017 | 9:03 PM by Times News Service | TimesOfOman.com Muscat: Do you snore and find it difficult to get enough sleep? This can affect your immune system, a study by a team of Oman-based doctors has suggested. Snoring is a noticeable sign of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), according to Dr Elias Said, assistant professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Sultan Qaboos University. Asked why a team of 11 health experts decided to conduct this research, he argued that there is insufficient information available on the changes in the immune system of Obstructive Sleep Apnea …
Chronic Insomnia Raises Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Written by Kathleen Doheny | EndocrineWeb.com Insomnia raises the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a new study confirms, and that risk increases with the duration of insomnia. Younger people, those under age 40, are especially vulnerable to developing diabetes if they have persistent insomnia, according to researchers from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. “This isn’t a surprise,” says Elena Christofides, MD, FACE, chief operating officer of Endocrinology Associates in Columbus, Ohio, and a member of the editorial board for EndocrineWeb. Insomnia, she says, puts the body in a constant state of stress. “Stress is a known …
Full text of Sen. Booker’s sleep apnea bill released
By Mark Schremmer, Land Line staff writer | Thursday, October 05, 2017 The full text to a bill introduced by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., that would force the U.S. Department of Transportation to push through a final rule to require testing of sleep apnea for truck drivers and railroad workers has been released. As expected, S1833 includes the same language as the House version, HR3882. Both bills would “require the Secretary of Transportation to publish a final rule to provide for the screening, testing, and treatment for sleep disorders of individuals operating commercial vehicles.” Specifically, each bill requires no later than a year after …
Learning Sleep Stages from Radio Signals: A Conditional Adversarial Architecture
Mingmin Zhao (1) Shichao Yue (1) Dina Katabi (1) Tommi Jaakkola (1) Matt Bianchi (2) 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2Massachusetts General Hospital Overview: RF-Sleep learns to predict sleep stages from radio measurements without any attached sensors on subjects. We introduce a new predictive model that combines convolutional and recurrent neural networks to extract sleep-specific subject-invariant features from RF signals and capture the temporal progression of sleep. A key innovation underlying our approach is a modified adversarial training regime that discards extraneous information specific to individuals or measurement conditions, while retaining all information relevant to the …
This Device Uses Radio Waves To Track How You’re Sleeping
Scientists think it could help them better understand progression of chronic diseases like Parkinson’s By Randy Rieland | September 13, 2017 | smithsonian.com As people age into their 60s and beyond, sleep can turn into a nightly disappointment. What once was peaceful repose becomes fragmented, unsatisfying, or simply evasive. For some, the cause is chronic illness, or the medications they take to treat it. Or, it could be tied to depression and anxiety, the double whammy of aging. Also, some disorders, such as sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome, often worsen in old age. It can be a vicious circle. …
7 Benefits of Dream Therapy You Might Not Know
By John D. Moore, PhD | PsychCentral Benefits of Dream Therapy Since the time of the ancients, dreams have been thought of as vehicles for other worldly communication. They’ve also been used as lenses for better seeing life’s complexities in the waking state. As an integrative therapist with a cognitive bent, I’m a big fan of dream therapy. There’s just something fun about exploring dream content and interpreting meaning. What is dream therapy? In simple speak, dream therapy is a $10.00 term used to describe a technique whereby dreams, including recurring dreams, are explored and analyzed to help understand stressors. …
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