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. …
Link Between Poor Sleep and Increased Dementia Risk, Research Shows
TUE, JUL 18 | NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt | NBCNews.com Evidence suggests that sleep breathing disorders, like snoring and sleep apnea, are strongly correlated to Alzheimer’s disease. …
IS SLEEP APNEA ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY SNORING?
ALBERT JUST | Last updated on January 9th, 2017 | SleepJunkies.com SLEEP APNEA AND SNORING ARE OFTEN CONSIDERED TO GO HAND IN HAND. BUT CAN THEY CO-EXIST INDEPENDENTLY? There are two types of sleep apnea – central sleep apnea, and obstructive sleep apnea, but when it comes to snoring, obstructive sleep apnea is generally the culprit. But is this always the case, can you have sleep apnea without snoring, and vice versa, can you be a snorer without having sleep apnea? In this article, we’ll take a look at this topic and attempt to dispel some of the most common …
Sleep Apnea Tied to Cognitive Decline
Monday, 28 Aug 2017 03:17 PM | NewsMax.com People who experience certain breathing problems at night may be more likely to develop cognitive impairment than individuals without any difficulties breathing while they sleep, a research review suggests. Data obtained from 14 previously published studies with a total of more than 4.2 million men and women showed that people with sleep-disordered breathing had 26 percent higher odds of developing cognitive impairment, researchers report in JAMA Neurology. “Identification of this sleep disorder in elderly persons might help predict future risk of cognitive impairment and thus is important for the early detection of …
Sleep apnea on the rise
Sleep doctor estimates that 80 percent of population has illness Tri-County Times | Fenton, MI Hannah Ball Staff Reporter | TCTimes.com If you get eight hours of sleep a night and still feel tired in the morning, you might have sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is the often noisy condition that prevents millions of people from getting a good night’s rest. Mid-Michigan Sleep Center Doctor George Zureikat, M.D. said “It’s a serious illness. It will affect the heart and the brain.” It also increases someone’s risk of becoming diabetic and gaining weight. Sleep apnea is the condition when throat muscles relax …
Positive airway pressure is the gold-standard for obstructive sleep apnea therapy, but an alternative therapy, when indicated, can literally be a lifesaver. By Sree Roy PHARMACOLOGICAL Medical Weight Loss Information source: Angela Fitch, MD, member of the board of trustees of the Obesity Medicine Association How it works: The more a patient weighs, the more the airway collapses from the excess weight, leading to obstruction. Excess abdominal weight can play a role in lung volumes so can increase the tendency for airway collapse. Losing weight helps to reduce the fat mass around the neck and abdomen and therefore decreases the propensity for airway …
Snoring Is an Annoyance Worth Taking More Seriously
By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | August 30, 2017 | TheCut.com A couple of years ago, a poster in the New York City subway showed a woman lying awake in bed next to a man passed out with his mouth wide open. “He may not always be charming,” the caption read, “but he’s always your prince.” The ad was part of a Department of Health initiative to encourage couples to stay together in difficult times, but it might have instead brought back bad memories of nocturnal irritation. It’s hard to overstate just how frustrating it can be to toss and turn …
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