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Investigators from the Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit, say that insomnia tend to worsen tinnitus in chronic patients. The discovery is extremely important, since more than 36 million people suffer from ringing in the ear. What the team found is that tinnitus patients who also can't sleep at night tend to report... |
21 April 2012
07:53 GMT |
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Insomnia affects women 1.4 times more often than men, health officials said during a recent conference on the topic. This difference between genders has never been taken too seriously by researchers, the authorities added.
Most investigations are focused on the overall statistics, which indicate that long work hour... |
17 April 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Altered states of consciousness, such as those seen in dissociative and identity disorders, are partially promoted by lack of sleep, insufficient sleep, or insomnia. In these conditions, people's normal conscious or psychological functioning is disrupted to various extents.
Those who suffer from such condition... |
16 February 2012
06:00 GMT |
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A whopping 40 percent of all police officers suffer from a sleeping disorder, while 46 percent of them admitted to falling asleep or nodding off behind the wheel. What is even worse is that the vast majority of such cases were not properly diagnosed or treated, a new study learned.
Sleep disorders may put a huge st... |
21 December 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Taking drugs that promote sleep or drinking alcohol are not good ways of handling insomnia. They are referred to among professionals as safety behaviors, and do not take care of the root cause of the condition. A Canadian research team says that therapy is the best approach to treating insomnia.
The work was carried... |
1 December 2011
10:50 GMT |
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According to a newly-released statistical analysis, it would appear that fighting mental health disorders will be Europe's primary and most difficult challenge over the coming decades. As much as 40 percent of its population is diagnosed with one or more such condition every single year. There are numerous disor... |
6 September 2011
10:56 GMT |
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A significant proportion of people who have reoccurring suicidal thoughts also suffer from insomnia or other sleep problems. Researchers say that applying a new type of treatment, based on cognitive-behavioral therapy could allow these people to sleep better.This in turn would eliminate one of the most important prob... |
16 June 2011
08:49 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that it is possible to treat insomnia naturally and effectively by simply using cold. Patients with primary insomnia can get a good night's sleep if they simply wear a cap that cools the brain when they go to bed.The finding was pres... |
14 June 2011
03:50 GMT |
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While patients who take antidepressants do feel better as far as most of their symptoms go, there are still some issues that these drugs seem unable to resolves. Some of the most common include sadness, decreased concentration and insomnia.Even in people who experience a great deal of success with drugs dedicated to ... |
21 April 2011
08:08 GMT |
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In spite of being heavily researched for years, sleep disorders are still rather mysterious, and researchers are still having a difficult time understanding how they work. Now, newly-published guidelines are bound to make this a lot easier for professionals. The document, which was published by the British Associatio... |
3 September 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has recently been proven in a scientific study to be a very effective method of fighting the effects of insomnia. In a paper published in the prestigious journal Sleep, researchers show that CBT significantly improves insomnia severity, daytime fatigue, and sleep quality, and... |
1 June 2009
09:19 GMT |
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People suffering from chronic forms of insomnia should be aware of the fact that their condition often facilitates the appearance of another one, namely hypertension. Given the fact that insomnia has become a public health issue over the past years, with more than 30 percent of all US citizens reporting that they can... |
1 April 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Given our hectic schedules and, most often than not, our unhealthy dietary habits, we frequently find ourselves at night, staring at the ceiling and not being able to sleep. While the abovementioned causes are just two of a myriad of them, lack of sleep can have disastrous consequences, which is why we should do what... |
14 January 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The causes of insomnia are diverse and span a great many medical conditions, but the underlying brain activity that keeps young and middle-aged adults awake for prolonged periods of time has yet to be determined. The latest issue of the journal Sleep may hold the answer to this dilemma, as scientists discovered that ... |
3 November 2008
05:55 GMT |
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We are in the middle of a vivid debate regarding how the wireless technology could affect our health."In the long term - 10, 20 and 30 years out - we have a lot less information about potential effects from these types of wireless devices", warns Frank Barnes, a distinguished professor in the electrical and computer ... |
22 January 2008
04:04 GMT |
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Here's something that may come to help those who often use to count thousands of sheep before falling asleep. The Dreamate device sends you to land of the dreams (or nightmares) by sending a gentle wave to your wrist. The “good karma” wave touches the so-called “sleeping golden triangle”... |
1 May 2007
04:19 GMT |
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If you can't keep your eyes on the ball, you definitely need a mid-day power nap at your work place. There's no need to crawl under your desk anymore. A company called Metronaps is setting up spa-like sleep centers that target office workers who need to isolate themselves in order to take a short nap of 20 ... |
20 April 2007
06:15 GMT |
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Being a "night owl" means a tough life. It does not matter that you have to wake up at 7 in the morning to go to the f***ing work, 'cause a new research made at Stanford University shows that this type of persons report more pathological symptoms linked to insomnia even when they have the opportunity to compensa... |
16 April 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Throughout their lives, humans sleep for the equivalent of one third of their lifespan. This is probably why the topic of sleep has always been and continues to be one of great interest for researchers. For instance, in the '50s, American researchers discovered, by measuring EEGs (electroencephalograms), the exi... |
21 March 2007
10:18 GMT |
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