Category: Mental Health

Healthy Sleep

Sleep and Meditation

Is This the Master Key? Sleep might be one of those rare occasions when science needs to listen to poetry. In Macbeth sleep is extolled because it “knits up the raveled sleeve of care,” perhaps the most famous Shakespeare comment

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Artificial Intelligence

New Treatment for PTSD-Related Nightmares

A college student watching his father deal with nightmares due to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) created a smartwatch app that was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Using his father as the test subject, Tyler Skluzacek

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Mental Health

Social Rejection & Sleep

Is there a connection? Humans are social creatures, yet the research on how sleep is related to many social processes has been largely unexplored. Social rejection seemed like an easy one to investigate because interpersonal stressors—like social rejection—have routinely been

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Mental Health

Sleep Deprivation & Loneliness

Sleep loss is a significant contributing factor to the public health crisis of loneliness Perhaps you’ve noticed in your own life that when you sleep less, you are less likely to call up a friend or go out to a

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Mental Health

Sleep + Unwanted Thoughts

A new study reveals that sleep deprivation and/or lack of sleep impairs the ability to stop and block unwanted thoughts. Intrusive, negative or unwanted thoughts tend to be a complaint of those living with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other

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Mental Health

Sundowning

A sleep disorder may be affecting your loved one with dementia. Antonio Culebras MD, FAAN, FAHA, FAASM is a Professor of Neurology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. His research has led him to study a sleep disorder

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Healthy Sleep

4 Things to Know about Sleep & Stress

The topic of stress and sleep is of the outmost importance as we head into 2021. The unprecedent times we have been living in since March 2020 have had a devastating effect on sleep, especially because of the stress caused

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Healthy Sleep

The Consequences of Poor Sleep

Missing one night of sleep is a normal occurrence for individuals around the globe. But what if you lack sleep on a regular basis? Or if you’re unable to obtain quality sleep due to a sleep disorder? Then, the consequences

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Healthy Sleep

The Sleep Secret Experts Prioritize

…And Why You Should Too Sleep is one of the three pillars of good health, along with a balanced diet and regular exercise. The world’s leading sleep experts have hectic daily agendas, often directing a sleep center or university department

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Mental Health

Sleep & Self-Worth

The Unlikely Duo Affecting Your Life It is not uncommon to read about connections between exercise or balanced diet with health and self esteem. But researchers are urging we take a look at the third pillar of health: sleep. Recent

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