Blog Category: Sleep

On January 8th the National Sleep Foundation launched a new resource center on its website that focuses on excessive sleepiness (ES), one of the cardinal symptoms indicative of an underlying sleep-wake disorder. Excessive sleepiness is a common complaint of the …

The possible link between poor sleep and schizophrenia is being studied by researchers from the University of Bristol. Scientists are exploring the impact of irregular sleep patterns on the brain by recording electrical brain activity in multiple brain regions during …

According to the National Sleep Foundation’s (NSF) 2012 Sleep in America® poll, the people we trust to take us or our loved ones from place to place struggle with sleep. It is the first poll to ask transportation professionals, including …

What do alien abductions, the Salem Witch trials and Moby Dick have in common? Sleep paralysis.

Less than 8 percent of the general population experiences sleep paralysis, but it is more frequent in two groups — students and psychiatric patients …

According to the latest National Sleep Foundation’s (NSF) 2011 Sleep in America® poll, respondents reported that they are dissatisfied with the amount of sleep that they get during the week and technology is used extensively before bedtime.

The NSF poll …