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05/19/2021

For dentists who have invested in clinical training but can’t get the day-to-day aspects of dental sleep medicine to click, experts offer solutions to get you rolling.

05/17/2021

There was a U-shape relationship based on sleep duration such that participants with six to seven hours had the lowest risk.

03/08/2011

Sleep apnea is a serious, potentially life-threatening condition that is far more common than generally understood. It owes its name to a Greek word, apnea, meaning "absence of breath". There are two types od sleep apnea: central and obstructive. The latter creates more physiological damage to ones body but is the easiest to treat.

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03/07/2011

Sleep disorders can affect anyone at any age. Even youn children can suffer from sleep disorders such as night terrors, nightmares and bedwetting.

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03/07/2011

Insomnia is defined as: difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or waking up too early.

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12/19/2010

Sleep disorders are classified into three major categories: Lack of sleep (e.g., Insomnia), disturbed sleep (e.g., sleep apnea, REM behavior disorder, restless legs syndrome and periodic limb disorder), excessive sleep (e.g., narcolepsy, CNS hyper-somnolence).

12/09/2010

Memory reconsolidation happens during the first third of the night in normal sleeping adults. The specific stage of sleep when it happens is Delta sleep or Slow wave sleep. The CA3 region of the hypothalamus is responsible for long term potentiation or synaptic plasticity related to learning.

12/05/2010

A report in the medical journal The Lancet, said that cutting
back from the standard eight down to four hours of sleep each night
produced striking changes in glucose tolerance and endocrine function
that mimicked many of the hallmarks of aging.

11/24/2010

Milk contains a substance called tryptophan. The body uses tryptophan to make serotonin, a chemical in the brain. Serotonin helps control sleep patterns, appetite, pain, and other functions. Milk does not contain enough tryptophan to change sleep patterns, but drinking a glass of milk before bed may help you relax.

11/12/2010

About one in 2,000 people have narcolepsy, a sleep disorder which causes
profound drowsiness often in the midst of daytime activities.

11/10/2010

There are over one hundred different types of sleep disorders. Nearly seventy percent of women report that they suffer from
some type of sleep disorder. Similarly, over forty percent of
women admit that daytime sleepiness disrupts their daily
activities.