Category: The Buzz About Sleep

The Buzz About Sleep

Your Latest Buzzword is Crowdlearning

 Crowdlearning is a way of learning that is based on sharing experience and knowledge in a group of people. It serves as a motivational platform for the transfer of information in education. Crowdlearning can take place in a variety of

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The Buzz About Sleep

The BuZZZ about Sleep

Your latest Buzzword is Orthosomnia Millions of people use sleep-tracking devices to keep an eye on how much sleep they are getting night after night. But as the popularity of the devices is increasing, a new problem is popping up:

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Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)

The BuZZZ about Sleep– Augmentation

Your Latest Buzzword is Augmentation. Augmentation is the phenomenon in which patients who have been taking a dopaminergic medication for the treatment of restless legs syndrome (RLS) and were doing well on the medication, suddenly start experiencing a worsening of

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The Buzz About Sleep

The BuZZZ About Sleep- Orexin

Your Latest Buzzword is Orexin, also known as hypocretin.   In 1998 two separate teams, utilizing different approaches and for entirely different reasons, reported the discovery of a new gene. One team named the gene orexin and the other named it hypocretin.

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The Buzz About Sleep

Your Latest Buzzwords are Process C & Process S.

Your Latest Buzzwords are Process C & Process S. The two processes that regulate the timing and length of sleep.  PROCESS C Where do Process C and Process S come from? Process C refers to our internal clock—our body’s natural sleep

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The Buzz About Sleep

Your Latest Buzzword is Hypnic Jerks.

When you are falling asleep and your body suddenly jerks, jolts or startles, this is a hypnic jerk or benign myoclonic jerk. Some people refer to them as a twitch, start or involuntary contraction, but all words are describing the

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The Buzz About Sleep

Your Latest Buzzword is Monophasic.

Over 24 hours, sleep can be organized into one block, called monophasic, or multiple blocks knowns as biphasic or polyphasic sleep. Little is known about variation in organizational patterns of sleep in humans, but it is expected that monophasic sleep

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The Buzz About Sleep

The BuZZZ about Sleep

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, or OMT as it’s regularly referred to, is a therapy of exercises for the face and tongue that can improve or even eliminate causes of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. The muscles of the tongue, throat and

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The Buzz About Sleep

Sleep Divorce

When a couple stops sleeping in the same bed or bedroom in an effort to better sleep quality and quantity, such as when a member of the couple has a sleep disorder or works a night shift. The term gained

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