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The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing Gary Null and Amy McDonald See book keywords and concepts

Although sleep research focuses on the individual with the problem, most adults share beds for most of their lives. "This has not been studied too extensively because laboratory instruments used to study sleep are geared to an individual," Dr. Dunkell says. "I've seen that the way couples relate at night in terms of the configurations that they assume on the bed reflect not only their individual positions, but the relationship between them and their attitudes toward one another.

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Since then, sleep research continues to provide fascinating insights into the power of sleep in the support of health and longevity. Just about every system in the body, including the detoxification process, is affected by the quality and amount of sleep you get a night. One aspect to sleep that is especially influential to our overall health and general sense of well-being is its control of our hormonal cycles. A healthy day/night cycle is tied into our normal hormonal secretion patterns?from those associated with our eating patterns to those that relate to stress and cellular recovery.

Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan See book keywords and concepts

STOP SIGN The sleep research Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine have devised a single question to determine which patients are likely to have restless leg syndrome: "When you try to relax in the evening or sleep at night, do you ever have unpleasant, restless feelings in your legs that can be relieved by walking or movement?" If you answer yes, you probably have this annoying condition.

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Restless Legs Syndrome Can Be Cured 70% Of the Time Clete Kushida, MD, PhD, neurologist; director, Center for Human sleep research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA {www.med.stanford.edii/school/psychiatry/human sleep); associate professor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford University Medical Center; and member, medical advisory board, Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation, www.rls.org.

Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac. See book keywords and concepts

The Stages of Sleep In the early days of sleep research, scientists believed that all but the most essential bodily and cerebral functions shut down during sleep. It wasn't until the advent of the electroencephalograph (EEG) in the late 1920s that researchers began to realize that sleep involves a startling amount of brain activity. By monitoring brain waves (see "Types of Brain Waves," page 12), scientists discovered five cyclic stages of alternately low and high brain wave function. It generally takes 90 to 110 minutes for the brain to complete one cycle.

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Through his work as director of the sleep research Laboratory at Boston's Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Hartmann knew that about 5 percent of the population was plagued by extremely vivid nightmares as often as once a week. After studying about a hundred of these frequent nightmare victims, Hartmann discovered certain common traits. People who have unusually lifelike nightmares also report a similar vividness in their normal, nonfrightening dreams. They also remember their dreams more often than others do.

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However, Professor Jim Home of the Loughborough sleep research Centre cites research findings that 20 per cent of children with mild to moderate ADHD appear to have sleep disturbances due to chronic colds, enlarged tonsils or breathing problems, and in his opinion the removal of tonsils or adenoids may often solve the behavioural problem. This is an area where medical and educational professionals could usefully work together. Other reasons for sleep disturbance include emotional difficulties and anxiety, which can cause nightmares, insomnia or bedwetting.

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Kleitman is considered the father of sleep research. In 1953, a discovery was made in Dr. Kleitman's laboratory that revolutionized the field of sleep research. The discovery was rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep, which occurs for prolonged periods in infants and at regular intervals in the sleep of children and adults.

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A fascinating, amusing tour through sleep research by a leading authority (Stanford Alumni Association, Bowman Alumni House, Stanford, CA 94305-4005). What Your Dreams Can Teach You by Alex Lukeman (St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, 1990). A guide to exploring what your unique dreams mean for you. P.O. Box 64383-475, St. Paul, MN 55164-0383. Magazine Dream Network 1337 Powerhouse Lane, Suite 32 Moab, UT 84532 A magazine devoted to dreams as tools for personal growth, change and healing. Organization The Lucidity Institute 2555 Park Blvd.

Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

The most recent sleep research is beginning to help us understand more fully how these drugs keep the patient alternating through varying levels of consciousness, including a potentially dangerous sleepwalk state. Many of these drugs, because of their stimulant profile, can at first deceive the patient and those around them into thinking the patient is improving and performing at a higher level. Although this forcing of the brain into performing beyond its present capacity can produce desired results at first, the results are not lasting.

There is much evidence which has appeared in sleep research just in the last decade to strongly indicate that most psychiatric disorders are manifestations of sleep disorders brought on by an accumulated sleep debt. Hopefully this new information will bring understanding and solutions to many of these problems which have caused so much pain and suffering throughout history. If our REM sleep debt is high enough we can actually go into a dream state while awake. When we are deprived of REM over a period of time we experience what is called REM-sleep rebound.

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