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• Andrew Blitzer, along with researchers from Johns Hopkins Medical Center and the University of Wisconsin have developed a ceramic, synthetic bone implant to re-establish good voicing in patients who have a vocal cord paralysis and have a poor voice and/or aspiration when drinking or eating. In patients who have a vocal cord paralysis, the vocal cords do not close completely, making the speaking voice breathy, effortful and harsh. ... The VOCOM is FDA approved as a safe and effective device for treatment of vocal cord paralysis. If you would like a consultation or more information about the VOCOM or other option for management of vocal cord paralysis, please call Dr. ...

• Sleep paralysis .
• A thread dealing with sleep paralysis (1995-1997). ...
• Sleep Paralysis and Related Experiences .
• A comprehensive site dealing with sleep paralysis, hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations. ...
• The Periodic Paralysis Resource Center .
• This site provides information on sleep paralysis as well as daytime paralysis. ...

• 4402 0 0 What Everyone Should Know About Sleep Paralysis, ASP and OBEs.
• Almost every day, I get e-mail from someone who, whether they know it or not, is experiencing awareness during sleep paralysis (ASP). ...
• What is sleep paralysis?.
• Sleep Paralysis is a normal, natural bodily function that causes our physical bodies to be paralyzed during sleep. ...   It’s supposed to happen every time we sleep and it usually sets in long before we start dreaming. ...   Normally, we are not conscious when sleep paralysis sets in, so most people don’t even know it exists.   However, once in a while, someone becomes conscious during that period, and that’s when it becomes Awareness during Sleep Paralysis, or ASP. ...
• When someone becomes conscious and aware of their sleep paralysis state, they usually don’t know what’s happening to them. ... Often, they struggle and thrash against the paralysis, trying to get free, but that rarely helps.
•   Often they seem to wake up “just in the nick of time before the monsters get them,” when in reality the fear-induced shot of adrenaline breaks them out of the paralysis. ...
•   It’s thought that sleep paralysis has something to do with the chemistry of the brain, and you’ll automatically break out of it when your chemicals stabilize. ...
•   Struggling against the paralysis is often futile, and if you do win, you’ll return to your physical body instead of leaving it, which is frustrating if OBEs are your goal.

• Sleep research and sleep medicine have grown rapidly over the last thirty years, partly as a result of the discovery that REM (rapid eye movement) sleep coincided with dreaming and partly because of the discovery of sleep apnea (breathing stopping during sleep). Countries vary in how they deal with sleep disorders; in the U. ... sleep medicine is recognised as a field and it is looked after by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; other medical specialities e. ...
• The sleep disorders category is broadly divided into sub-categories that deal with the specific sleep disorders as well as the institutions that regulate, diagnose and treat these disorders. Sleep is affected by the brain's biological clock and so is included in this category. Shift-work sleep disorder and jet-lag are well-known problems that reflect the activity of the biological clock. ...
• This category consists of some of the major 'omnibus' sites (SleepNet, Brain Information Service, Sleep Medicine and the SleepWell) that can contain just about everything (information, chats, consultations, portals, etc). It also lists smaller, general information sites as well as sites that provide short and concise general sleep disorders information. ...
• The Organisations sub-category is packed with information that is more specific to particular sleep disorders. Apart from listing the various centers, the Sleep Centers sub-category is worth visiting as many of these sites provide useful information on sleep disorders. ...
• A sleep center, also known as a sleep disorders centre or sleep medicine center diagnoses sleep problems by means of a sleep study. Sleep center websites are excellent resources for information on individual sleep disorders. ...
• The field of sleep disorders embraces disturbed sleep - sleep that is disturbed by medical disorders. ... epilepsy, Parkinson's, oncology, etc may not be aware of developments in sleep research and sleep medicine, and patients may feel that their sleep problem is not being adequately addressed by those experts. ...
• Insomnia is the chronic inability to sleep when desired. It can be caused by many situations, conditions and health disorders as well as being a sleep disorder in its own right. ...

• Ask Psiguy – The Old Hag Syndrome and Sleep Paralysis.
• The person would awaken from sleep, realize that they cannot move and (this is the really scary part) report that there is somebody, or something, in the room with them. ...
• This was all before the advent of sleep research. We have since learned that these images occur in what is called the hypnopompic stage of sleep wherein the subject's consciousness awakens only to find that the body is still paralyzed due to having just come out of a REM stage. We have learned about the 5 stages of sleep, and particularly the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage, in which the most vivid recall of dreaming occurs. REM occurs more frequently and for a higher percentage of total sleep as one goes through the night. ...
• (We do dream in the other states of sleep, called Non-REM dreaming, and sleep walking and talking, interestingly takes place in the slowest-brainwave sleep of all, Stage 4).
• For more info, there's lots of Sleep Disorder/Nightmare links out there. ...
• The Sleep Paralysis Page .
• The Sleep Research Society .

• THERE could be a new medical explanation for "tokoloshe" hauntings, alien abductions and night terrors: doctors are calling it sleep paralysis, a disorder that is the result of a disconnection between the brain and the body when a person is on the edge of sleep.
• Recent studies in Canada, Japan, China and the US have suggested that sleep paralysis may strike at least 40 to 50 percent of all people at least once.
• Japan is the world leader in sleep-paralysis research.
• Researchers have found that, while the symptoms of sleep paralysis might be similar, the images in the hallucinations and the interpretation of them vary from country to country.
• In ancient Europe (as suggested by art and literature) sleep paralysis was seen as an abduction by witches who took the sleeper off on a broomstick ride. ...
• However, there are those - including John E Mack, a Harvard University Medical School professor who believes in the possibility of alien abductions - who think that the sleep paralysis theory does not fit the evidence.
• Despite years of study, especially in the last decade, sleep paralysis remains something of a mystery.
• Sleep paralysis seems to occur when the body enters REM - or rapid eye movement - sleep, when the body turns itself off and disconnects from the brain.
• What researchers do not know is what occurs in the brain during sleep paralysis.
• The person experiencing the paralysis feels awake and sees the room clearly, but experiments in Japan show that some people experiencing sleep paralysis do not even open their eyes.

• What causes sleep paralysis? .
• Sleep paralysis, night terrors, nightmares +++++++++++++++.
• What causes sleep paralysis?.

• What is Sleep Paralysis? .
• Sleep paralysis, also known as Old Hag, is a phenomenon that is known, to some extent, by all cultures throughout the world. Some people say attacking aliens are the cause of sleep paralysis, .
• And I would like to further add, that although we may now have an explanation of the mechanics involved, it does not mean we know WHY or WHAT causes this strange phenomenon to occur, but only explains what is going on physically during an episode of sleep paralysis, or SP. ...
• Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone about to fall asleep, or just upon waking from sleep, realizes that they are unable to move or speak, but can still breathe and move their eyes. ... Your conscious mind has begun to drift into sleep but is not yet there, therefore you still retain a small amount of your waking conscious. ...
• The person may only experience a temporary paralysis, and after several seconds or up to a minute or so would then regain their movement and the event would be over. ...
• As a frequent sufferer of sleep paralysis, I know that for me its relatively rare to have an episode complete with the SMP, but it does happen, and when it does, it is terrifying. ...
• These hallucinations are given these names because they occur at the onset of sleep, and the period just before waking, the period I call the 'twilight' stages of sleep. ...
• From my "research into other peoples' research"  I have found a few people ('people' meaning  doctor's studying sleep research and/or their students contributing to the research) that agree there can be several outside contributing factors to SP. ...
• ) the sufferer of SP regains full consciousness,  they were in the "twilight" stage of sleep, e. ... sleep onset or sleep offset, and instead of falling into a deeper sleep state,   the person regains consciousness but continues to 'dream', almost always believing at the time that it is really happening and not being manufactured by their own mind.   Researchers believe the paralysis is due to the failure of the brains neurons to "remind" the body it is now awake so it is unable to move (called muscle atonia). ...
• Ardat lili or Lilitu, an evil hag-demon, was said to have the power of flight, which she preferred to do at night when she would attack men in their sleep. ...
• A man or woman is attacked during the night, usually lying on their back, when an evil entity sits upon their body, causes paralysis, and even sometimes chokes or smothers it's victim. ... In Thailand people refer to being Phi um (ghost covered) and phi kau (ghost possessed), and these experiences include a feeling of pressure, paralysis, and something black covering the body. ... You piss with fear in your sleep" .

• Top: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Sleep Disorders: Sleep Paralysis (3) .
• border=1" alt="Previews by Thumbshots"> Sleep Paralysis and Related Experiences - A comprehensive site dealing with sleep paralysis, hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations.
• border=1" alt="Previews by Thumbshots"> The Periodic Paralysis Resource Center - This site provides information on sleep paralysis as well as daytime paralysis.
• border=1" alt="Previews by Thumbshots"> Sleep paralysis - A thread dealing with sleep paralysis (1995-1997).

• Sleep Paralysis.
• Have you ever experienced the feeling of not being able to move or speak on just falling asleep or just waking up, yet you are fully aware of your surroundings? You have probably experienced Sleep Paralysis.
• Sleep Paralysis is considered a secondary, non-exclusive symptom of narcolepsy. It is also considered to be an abnormal REM sleep phenomenon. ... Sleep Paralysis occurs due to normal sleep stages occuring abnormally, or out of order so to speak. There are four stages of sleep that repeat themselves over and over throughout the night.
• The 4 Normal Sleep Stages.
• REM (rapid eye movement) Sleep. ... This REM stage is the dream-state and occurs 90-100 minutes after sleep onset. ... This is the most restorative stage of sleep, also known as Delta Sleep and is when most dreaming occurs.
• This is a light stage of sleep. ... Your body and mind are preparing to enter deep sleep.
• These are Non-REM stages of sleep, with stage 4 being more intense than stage 3. ...
• Instead of entering REM sleep 90-100 minutes after sleep onset, the person with narcolepsy enters REM sleep almost immediately after sleep onset. ... Therefore, the mind is awareof slipping into REM sleep. ... This paralysis is a normal fuction. ...

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• MedicineNet Home > MedTerms medical dictionary A-Z List > Atonia, REM sleep.
•  Atonia, REM sleep Index .
• Atonia, REM sleep : A frightening form of paralysis that occurs when a person suddenly finds himself or herself unable to move for a few minutes, most often upon falling asleep or waking up. Commonly called sleep paralysis, the condition is due to an ill-timed disconnection between the brain and the body. ...
• The symptoms of sleep paralysis include sensations of noises, smells, levitation, paralysis, terror, and images of frightening intruders. Once considered very rare, about half of all people are now believed to experience sleep paralysis sometime during their life. ...
• Sleep paralysis strikes as a person is moving into or out of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the deepest part of sleep. During REM sleep the body is largely disconnected from the brain leaving the body paralyzed. Sleep paralysis is the result of premature (or persistent) mind-body disconnection as one is about to enter into (or exit from) REM sleep. ...
• Sleep paralysis occurs most often after jet lag or periods of sleeplessness that interrupt the normal REM patterns. ... Sleep paralysis can be familial and may be genetic (inherited) in some cases. ...
• An attack of sleep paralysis is usually harmless and self-limited. ... However, the memory of the terrifying sensations felt during sleep paralysis can long endure. (Some scholars believe that sleep paralysis may account for some of the old claims of attacks by witches and the more recent "reports" of nocturnal abduction by space aliens. ...
• A rare fatal form of sleep paralysis may, it is thought, underlie the cases of healthy teenagers, mainly in Southeast Asia, who die in their sleep, sometimes after fighting for breath but without thrashing around. ...
• Sleep paralysis goes by a number of names, including the "old hag" in Newfoundland (for an old witch thought to sit on the chest of the paralyzed sleeper), "kokma" in the West Indies (for a ghost baby who jumps on the sleeper's chest and attacks the throat), "kanashibari" in Japan and "gui ya" or ghost pressure in China (because a ghost is believed to sit on and assault the sleeper). Medically, sleep paralysis is sometimes called waking paralysis, predormital (before-sleep) paralysis, and postdormital (after-sleep) paralysis.

• sleep paralysis .
• It was about, you guess it, killer clowns from outer space sleep paralysis. ...
• I was kinda insulted amazed when the show said that it's not uncommon to have dreams where you can only run naked in slow-mo or can't speak at the public library above a whisper, and when they mentioned that sometimes the male reproductive organ inner ear produces hot hot mind sex ping or beep like noises as sleep is setting in, I was dead dumbfounded. That happens two to me all the time! But I have never married a cartoon had sleep paralysis, have any of you?.
• Sleep is a very interesting state. ... stop breathing in your sleep. ... he has to sleep with a "darth vader" mask on to help him breath at night.

• Sleep testing may also show the cause. Sleep apnea is the most common cause. ... Muscle weakness when emotional (cataplexy), vivid dreams while still half-awake, and brief paralysis on awakening, also may occur in narcolepsy, but not in idiopathic hypersomnia. Other causes include delayed sleep phase syndrome, closed head injuries and chemical imbalances in the brain. In delayed sleep phase syndrome, the body clock is delayed, so that the preferred bedtime and risetime are later than desirable, with difficulty falling asleep and difficulty waking up.
• Sleep apnea is best treated with CPAP. ... Delayed sleep phase syndrome can be treated behaviorally and with bright light, but requires a commitment to go to bed and get up at the desired times everyday. ... Average need for sleep is seven to nine hours a night.
• When should I seek help? If sleepiness interferes with daily routine, or causes impaired alertness or sleep episodes when driving.

• God, dream, dream interpretations, dream definitions, nightmares & sleep paralysis. ...
• God, dream, dream interpretations, dream definitions, nightmares & sleep paralysis. ...

• Northside Hospital Sleep Disorders Center.
• The Sleep Disorders Center at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
• The Sleep Medicine Home Page.
• Sleep Apnea Society of Alberta.
• "Insomnia? Just Go To Sleep and Forget It. ...
• Sleep Disorders .
• The descriptions of the following sleep disorders were compiled with the assistance of the Northside Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center. Take sleep problems seriously. If you show symptoms of sleep disorders, call a sleep center near you or the Northside Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center at (404) 851- 8135. To locate an accredited sleep disorders center in your area, visit the American Sleep Disorders Association site.
• If your sleep has been disturbed for more than a few weeks and interferes with your ability to function normally during the day, consult your physician or make an appointment at an accredited sleep disorder clinic in your area.
• Narcolepsy is a rare sleep disorder that can have a devastating impact on a person's life. ...
• Another symptom of narcolepsy is sleep paralysis, a condition defined by an inability to move or speak despite complete consciousness. ...
• If you feel that you may be experiencing symptoms of narcolepsy, you should seek treatment at an accredited sleep disorder clinic or see your physician.
• Episodes occur at regular intervals, usually every 30 seconds during the beginning phases of sleep. ...
• Those suffering periodic limb movement disorder usually sleep right through their symptoms and require little or no treatment. If you feel you may be suffering from one or both of these disorders, visit a sleep disorder clinic in your area.

• Subject: Sleep paralysis without narcolepsy.
• Topic Area: Sleep.
• In Reply to: Sleep paralysis without narcolepsy posted by Kimberly Roylance on May 02, 1997 at 05:07:39:.
• : I've experienced incidents of sleep paralysis immediately upon awakening 2-3 times per week for the past 6-8 weeks. ... It seems more likely to occur with several nights of sleep deprivation.
• Kimberly, The phenomenon of isolated sleep paralysis is actually quite common, occurring with as high a frequency as 20% of all normal people at least once during their lifetimes. It tends to run in families and is most often triggered by stress, sleep deprivation, or frequent awakening/disturbed sleep. Experimentally, you can even cause this to happen to a normal person by disturbing their sleep in at certain specific points. ... As you know, if one also experiences attacks of sudden sleep and sudden loss of all muscle tone causing one to fall while awake (cataplexy), then the diagnosis is changed to narcolepsy. In reviewing the medical literature on your behalf, there are several reports of highly successful (complete remission) of isolated sleep paralysis with the so-called selective seretonin reuptake inhibitor drugs (SSRIs). ...
• I would suggest that you see a neurologist to be certain that you do not have any other associated neurologic disease or sleep disorder apart from the sleep paralysis. ... If you would be interested in an evaluation at the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center, you may call 1-800-223-2273 and ask to be connected to the center, or alternatively to the department of neurology appointment desk (ext 45559). ...

• WSU School of Medicine to study sleep paralysis, panic disorder in African Americans.
• Imagine waking up from a night’s sleep and being unable to move. ...
• That’s sleep paralysis, a relatively understudied phenomenon that seems to occur more frequently among African Americans. ...
• Merritt-Davis is part of a larger effort at the School of Medicine led by Thomas Uhde, MD, associate dean for research and graduate programs, to better understand the link between panic disorder and different types of frightening arousals from sleep. ... Attacks may occur during sleep and, like sleep paralysis, may be extremely frightening.
• “Right now, we’re trying to learn more about sleep paralysis and its relationship to panic disorder,” said Dr. ... “Sleep paralysis in African Americans is remarkably understudied. ...
• In one study, 15 percent of African Americans who experienced sleep paralysis also had panic disorder, Dr. ...

• MedicineNet Home > MedTerms medical dictionary A-Z List > Sleep paralysis.
•  Sleep paralysis Index .
• Sleep paralysis: A frightening form of paralysis that occurs when a person suddenly finds himself or herself unable to move for a few minutes, most often upon falling asleep or waking up. Sleep paralysis is due to an ill-timed disconnection between the brain and the body. ...
• The symptoms of sleep paralysis include sensations of noises, smells, levitation, paralysis, terror, and images of frightening intruders. Once considered very rare, about half of all people are now believed to experience sleep paralysis sometime during their life. ...
• Sleep paralysis strikes as a person is moving into or out of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the deepest part of sleep. During REM sleep the body is largely disconnected from the brain leaving the body paralyzed. Sleep paralysis is the result of premature (or persistent) mind-body disconnection as one is about to enter into (or exit from) REM sleep.
• Sleep paralysis occurs most often after jet lag or periods of sleeplessness that interrupt the normal REM patterns. ... Sleep paralysis can be familial and may be genetic (inherited) in some cases.
• An attack of sleep paralysis is usually harmless and self-limited. ... However, the memory of the terrifying sensations felt during sleep paralysis can long endure. (Some scholars believe that sleep paralysis may account for some of the old claims of attacks by witches and the more recent "reports" of nocturnal abduction by space aliens. ...
• A rare fatal form of sleep paralysis may, it is thought, underlie the cases of healthy teenagers, mainly in Southeast Asia, who die in their sleep, sometimes after fighting for breath but without thrashing around. ...
• Sleep paralysis goes by a number of names, including the "old hag" in Newfoundland (for an old witch thought to sit on the chest of the paralyzed sleeper), "kokma" in the West Indies (for a ghost baby who jumps on the sleeper's chest and attacks the throat), "kanashibari" in Japan and "gui ya" or ghost pressure in China (because a ghost is believed to sit on and assault the sleeper). Medically, sleep paralysis is sometimes called waking paralysis, predormital (before-sleep) paralysis, postdormital (after-sleep) paralysis, and REM sleep atonia.

• Sleep Paralysis (3).
• Sleep Paralysis and Related Experiences A comprehensive site dealing with sleep paralysis, hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations. ...
• Sleep paralysis A thread dealing with sleep paralysis (1995-1997). ...
• The Periodic Paralysis Resource Center This site provides information on sleep paralysis as well as daytime paralysis. ...

• Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis.
• Does Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis Involve More than Cognitive Neurosciences? .
• Isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) is a poorly understood phenomenon that has attracted increased attention in recent years both in the medical community (M. ... Although the occurrence of ISP is relatively common, recurrent ISP (RISP) is a rarer variant of sleep paralysis characterized by frequent episodes or a complex of sequential episodes whose total duration may exceed one hour, and particularly by the range and sense of perceived reality of the subjective phenomena experienced during episodes. ... Finally, we performed a statistical analysis on RISP by use of a sample of 250 direct or indirect respondents to a message posted initially by one of the authors on the sleep web site of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) 19 . ...

• The word polysomnography, derived from the Greek roots "poly," meaning many, "somno," meaning sleep, and "graphy" meaning to write, refers to multiple tests performed on patients while they sleep. Polysomnography is an overnight test to evaluate sleep disorders. ...
• Polysomnography is used to help diagnose and evaluate a number of sleep disorders. For instance, it can help diagnose sleep apnea, a common disorder in middle-aged and elderly obese men, in which the muscles of the soft palate in the back of the throat relax and close off the airway during sleep. ... In narcolepsy, people suffer from sudden attacks of sleep and/or cataplexy (temporary loss of muscle tone caused by moments of emotion, such as fear, anger, or surprise, which causes people to slump or fall over), sleep paralysis or hallucinations at the onset of sleep. Polysomnography is often used to evaluate parasomnias (abnormal behaviors or movements during sleep), such as sleep walking, talking in one's sleep, nightmares, and bedwetting. ...
• Polysomnography requires an overnight stay in a sleep laboratory. ...
• The EEG not only helps doctors establish what stage of sleep the patient is in, but may also detect seizures.
• Another form of monitoring is continuous electro-oculography (EOG), which records eye movement and is useful in determining when the patient is going through a stage of sleep called rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Both EEG and EOG can be helpful in determining sleep latency (the time that transpires between lights out and the onset of sleep), total sleep time, the time spent in each sleep stage, and the number of arousals from sleep.

•  Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences   Sleep Paralysis.
• Sleep paralysis, or more properly, sleep paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations have been singled out as a particularly likely source of beliefs concerning not only alien abductions, but all manner of beliefs in alternative realities and otherworldly creatures. Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop of to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, or speak, or cry out. ... After seconds or minutes one feels suddenly released from the paralysis, but may be left with a lingering anxiety. ... Several recent surveys including our own suggest that between 25-30% of the population reports that they have experienced at least a mild form of sleep paralysis at least once and about 20-30% of these have had the experience on several occasions. ...
•   Sleep paralysis most often has an adolescent onset. ... The results do suggest, however, that sleep paralysis episodes may begin at virtually any age, although it is rare for this to happen after 30. ...
• Hallucinations and Sleep Paralysis.
• Our research has led us to conclude that hallucination is probably not too strong a term for the experiences associated with sleep paralysis. ...
• Sleep paralysis related experiences appear to range from what might be best termed fleeting illusions to true hallucinations. ...   Most of the experiences associated with sleep paralysis appear to be hallucinations and quasi-halluciantions (e. ... These quasi-hallucinations probably best describe the large majority of sleep paralysis and range from vaguely disturbing to extremely terrifying. ... The HHEs of sleep paralysis would include misinterpretations of shadows and indistinct objects in a dark room. Finally there may be some people who experience full-blown hallucinations during sleep paralysis in which they not only have vivid and complex imaginative experiences but are also convinced that these experiences have objective external sources. Such people are unlikely to describe their experience as one of sleep paralysis but perhaps as one of demon possession or alien abduction. ...
• Another two-thirds of those experiencing sleep paralysis, however, have associated experiences sometimes referred to as hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations. ...

• Sleep Paralysis.
• In fact this is probably only a problem to people who are frightened of the paralysis, as for most people, active dreams manage to break through the inhibition enough to cause mild movements and vocal sounds.
• When Susan relaxes, and thereby drops the fear of paralysis, she can be free of it. ...
• The prospect of sinking back into deep sleep, unable to move, is terrifying - so dreadful that I finally burst fully awake with the sensation of shooting up through water into the air.
• Other strange phenomena occurring either during or on the edge of sleep probably have similar causes, or are linked in some way. ...
• After a few months practice I found I could enter a condition where I had no sense of a body, and felt myself to be awake in the depths of sleep. ... However, the terror Roy and other people speak of in regard to the paralysis, I have experienced myself, and witnessed in other people, who felt themselves powerless against a spontaneous eruption of experience from the unconscious. ...
• He eventually managed to stop this sleep masturbation by wearing tight swimming trunks, thus causing him to struggle to reach his penis, and thereby wake himself and avoid the dreaded possession. ... See: awake - difficulty in awakening sleeper; movements during sleep; yoga and dreams.

• A resource for sleep disorders, professionals, patients and families. ...
• Primary Care Physicians Ignoring Patients' Sleep Problems,.
• According to New National Sleep Foundation Survey -- Patients Must Initiate Discussions With Doctors About Sleep-Related Issues, Says NSF.
• for a Good Night's Sleep.
• Pacific Sleep Medicine Services.
• Sleep and Dreams" .
• Pacific Sleep Medicine Services.
• Multimedia Sleep Disorders Library .
• A recent study done at the University of Michigan revealed that a third or more epilepsy patents also have sleep apnea. ...
• University of Utah researchers have pinpointed the mutant gene that causes familial advanced sleep-phase syndrome. This discovery may lead to help for people with other disorders of the circadian rhythm system, like jet lag and delayed sleep phase syndrome. ...
• For many people with sleep apnea, the mention of weight control sends them scurrying for cover, but sleep apnea and obesity go hand in hand. ...
• Two Aspects of Sleep.
• The second, the so-called sleep-wake system, determines how much rest.
• Waking Up to Sleep Problems in Kids .
• Nearly 40 percent suffer sleep deprivation .

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