Mike Birbiglia’s sleep disorder has been the basis for a book and one-man show. Now the comedian’s REM sleep behavior disorder is featured in the film. Sleepwalk with Me made its premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The movie [...]
Researchers have observed changes to the brains of patients with severe sleep apnea. A team in Australia used magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy to compare the brain tissue of sleep apnea patients to people without sleep disorders. They identified significant changes in the frontal lobe [...]
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder is characterized by abnormal behaviors that cause injury or disrupt sleep. The most notorious is Dream Enactment Behavior. As the name suggests, Dream Enacted Behavior causes the sleeper to act out his or her dreams. Flailing arms, leaping from bed, [...]
What’s passed down from your parents, grandparents and ancestors can impact the way you sleep. In some cases, genetics can be beneficial. For instance, the short-sleep gene allows people to better cope with sleep loss. Other families have less helpful genes, like vulnerability to [...]
A new study shows sleeping less than six hours per night may increase your risk to develop a key sign of early colon cancer by about 50 percent. Patients who reported short sleep durations are far more likely to be diagnosed with colorectal adenomas, [...]
Constantly exhausted but unable to sleep, the complaint is common among fibromyalgia patients. Until now doctors have had a difficult time treating sleep disruption from the chronic condition. Researchers have discovered restless leg syndrome is often the culprit, and medication for the sleep disorder [...]
People with REM sleep behavior disorder act out vivid, action-packed dreams while remaining asleep. They may shout, punch, kick, run and even jump out a window. RBD was first reported in the journal Sleep in 1986. Sixteen years later a follow-up report was published [...]
Earlier this week The Telegraph reported that a sleep talking blog has become the latest sensation to sweep the Internet. Karen Slavick-Lennard said she was accustomed to hearing her husband Adam’s unusual comments. She even repeated them to friends for their amusement. Then she [...]
You’re waking up or falling asleep, and suddenly you’re unable to move. Your body becomes paralyzed as if an unseen weight is upon you. You may be unable to move your arms or legs, body, and head. You can breathe and think, but you [...]
A new study shows that mathematical models can be used to design effective treatment schedules for jet lag. These models simulate the body's internal circadian clock and its effect on human performance. The study tested a new algorithm called the “circadian adjustment method.” It was implemented with [...]
