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Sleep Deprivation Fosters Inactivity
Thursday, 27 March 2008
As many as one in four people have some type of sleeping disorder, but only half are diagnosed, said researcher William G. Herbert, Ph.D., FACSM in a presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine's 12th-annual Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition.

Searching For Insomnia Help
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
Finding effective insomnia help is like searching for a needle in a haystack. There are different remedies and aids out there both pharmaceutical and natural. Is there a real need for all these methods? The reply is ‘Yes' with sleeplessness becoming such an epidemic it truly deserves attention.

Arena Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 2b Clinical Trial Of APD125 For The Treatment Of Insomnia
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) announced that it initiated screening in a Phase 2b clinical trial of APD125 in patients with primary insomnia. APD125 is an oral drug candidate discovered by Arena with the potential to decrease insomnia symptoms and enhance sleep maintenance and quality.

Sleep Deprivation Used To Diagnose Sleepwalking
Friday, 21 March 2008
Somnambulism (sleepwalking), which regularly involves misperception and unresponsiveness to the environment, mental confusion and amnesia about sleepwalking episodes, affects up to 4 percent of adults.

The Importance of Using Night Mouth Guards
Monday, 16 June 2008
Night mouth guards are primarily used by people who have teeth grinding problems or bruxism. Bruxism is that unnatural habit of clenching your teeth while sleeping, which creates an annoying sound to your bed partner.The easiest solution to bruxism is the use of night mouth guards.

Sleep Apnea
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Sleep Apnea is pause of breath during sleep. One or more breath is lost in this cessation, and it occurs through out the sleep.

Ambien CR(R) (zolpidem Tartrate Extended-release) Tablets CIV Improved Chronic Insomnia In Patients
Saturday, 05 January 2008
Sanofi-aventis announced results from a new study that showed Ambien CR(R) (zolpidem tartrate extended-release) tablets CIV provided improvement in sleep onset, sleep maintenance and total sleep time for patients with co-morbid chronic insomnia and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) compared to...
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Health and Medical News - Sleep
Wednesday, 20 August 2008

One of the largest questions to be answered about broken sleep and sleep disorders is how does lack of sleep affect behavior. A lack of sleep can affect the behavior of a person in many different ways. Some people may exhibit a few of the usual behavior changes associated with a lack of sleep while some others may exhibit many changes that could cause the people around the affected person to become worried.

Lack of sleep has many negative effects on the brain, affecting many of the different behaviors that are controlled by the brain. The person may experience emotional changes, changes to their physical behavior, and an increase in negative personality traits. Each person may be affected by a lack of sleep in a different way, but for each person the changes in behavior will be negative and may be severe enough for the person to need medical attention.

People affected by a lack of sleep will find themselves much less patient with and much more irritable towards the people around them. Things that would have never bothered the person before now cause arguments to break out and can cause headaches for everybody involved. The people around them are typically baffled by the person’s change in personality.

The valuable news is that this common irritability will vanish once the person has resumed their normal sleeping habits. Once the person realizes what they have been doing and how they have been acting, they are very upset and sorry about their preceding behavior.

People affected by a lack of sleep will frequently have an impossibility to concentrate or reason out problems. Children in school that are affected by a lack of sleep do worse on tests and do not learn as much as they would have with a full night’s rest. Adults suffering from a lack of sleep get into automobile accidents more often since they are unable to concentrate enough to drive a automobile properly and obey the many laws of the road.

A lack of sleep can result in the person appearing confused or disoriented to the people around them. They act and move like a person who has had too much alcohol to drink or has been taking intoxicating drugs. Precise movements are hard to perform and dizziness can happen when standing or moving too speedily. The longer the lack of sleep occurs, the worse the person will be since the brain is getting more and more tired. This causes the person’s reaction time to decrease with each passing day.

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