Sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be evaluated with ultrasound images of the tongue captured as the patient, awake, performs a simple breathing exercise. Taiwanese researchers demonstrated the usefulness of the procedure for planning treatment strategies, publishing their findings online Sept. 20 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. The researchers, from National Cheng Kung University …

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BERKELEY, Calif. — For a preseason scrimmage in August, the University of California football team tried to replicate the game day experience as best it could. It stayed in a hotel the night before. It scheduled the kickoff earlier than usual to acclimate to the time zone in which it would play its season opener …

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Factors including gender, geographic region, employment status, and choice of accompanying medication play a role in determining a narcolepsy patient’s medication usage. This is according to an abstract published in the journal Sleep and presented at the SLEEP 2017 conference. The researchers studied 970 assessments involving 849 patients with narcolepsy. Prior to this publication, the researchers note, there …

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Do you ever wake from sleep and realize you can’t move your arms or legs, lift your head, or wiggle your fingers or toes? You’re aware of your surroundings, but you can’t move or speak. You might even see weird visions or hear strange sounds. This is called sleep paralysis, and it occurs when part of …

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A new study – published in the journal Scientific Reports – examines the effect of octacosanol in stressed sleep-deprived mice. The research was carried out by a team of scientists led by Mahesh K. Kaushik and Yoshihiro Urade, both of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Octacosanol is an antioxidant whose anti-inflammatory, anti-adipose …

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Major depression is responsible for almost 4 percent of the disease burden in the United States. In 2015, around 16 million U.S. adults aged 18 or older reported having had at least one major depressive episode in the previous year. Although there is a range of treatment options for people with depression, there is no cure and we still have much …

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I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that sleep is the most important thing in my life. In some ways, it’s more precious to me than my marriage, my child, or my job–because if I don’t get enough sleep, I cannot properly function as a wife, a mother, or a writer. Sleep science is still in …

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Medical experts are warning parents that if you hear your young son or daughter snoring, it could potentially be a sign that the child is suffering from sleep apnea. “It should raise a flag,” Dr. Sydney Butts, an ear, nose and throat doctor in New York City told ABC News of snoring in children. “You should …

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Hitting the snooze button repeatedly inflicts “cardiovascular assault” on the body and abuses your nervous system, a neuroscientist has warned. Professor Matthew Walker, who teaches at the University of California’s Centre for Human Sleep Science, has issued a slew of advice for people who struggle nodding off, as it’s revealed that 39 per cent of …

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If dreams were movies, they wouldn’t make a dime. They’re often banal, frequently fleeting and they’re screened for an audience of just one. As for the story line? You’re in a supermarket, only it’s also Yankee Stadium, shopping with your second-grade teacher until she turns into Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Then you both shoot a bear …

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