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Infant sleep problems: A guide for the science-minded parent 2008 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved Infant sleep problems can make us crazy. In part, thats because we feel so helpless to fix them. Babies have different sleep patterns than adults, and these differences limit what we can do. For instance, we cant make a [...]

Prevention of Infant Sleep Problems Parents want their children to go to bed without resistance and to sleep through the night. They look forward to a time when they can again have 7 or 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Newborns, however, have a limit to how many hours they can go without a feeding, usually [...]

Sleep Aids And Stimulants (cont.) What are non-drug treatments for insomnia? When you consult a physician about insomnia, he or she may ask to you keep a sleep log for several weeks to monitor your sleep habits. The treatment of insomnia includes not only medications, but often sleep habit and behavioral modifications for optimal long-term [...]

Sleep Apnea (cont.) What is central sleep apnea and what causes it? Central sleep apnea (CSA) occurs when the brain does not send the signal to breathe to the muscles of breathing. This usually occurs in infants or in adults with heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, or congenital diseases, but it also can be caused by [...]

Sleep Aids And Stimulants (cont.) Melatonin Melatonin (for example, Melatonex) is the only hormone available OTC for insomnia. Melatonin is a hormone that is produced by the pineal gland. Melatonin helps regulate the body’s clock or sleep-wake cycle. The secretion of melatonin is increased by darkness and decreased by light. The exact mechanism of how [...]

More Sleeping Disorders Treatments | FAQ’s What are Sleeping Disorders? They say all you need is a good nights sleep to tide over your woes. But what happens when sleep is distorted? Believe it or not, the lack of sleep, or excessive sleep, can derail your entire life. Such disruptions in regular sleeping patterns are [...]

Behavioral therapy is the big “B” therapy of sleep apnea. This is a form of psychological therapy that looks specifically at ways to alter behavior and the cognitive processes that go with it. Cognitive behavioral therapy (often abbreviated to CBT) is based in cognitive theory and its subsequent research and it also lends heavily from [...]

Overview Specialists at Mayo Clinic are experienced in diagnosing and treating REM sleep behavior disorder. Mayo has sophisticated sleep labs for monitoring people while they sleep. Sleep specialists from Neurology, Thoracic Diseases and Psychiatry work together to treat this disorder. Annually, Mayo treats more than 100 people who have REM sleep behavior disorder. Obtaining an [...]

Signs and symptoms of sleep apnea Mark’s struggle with Sleep Apnea Mark’s snoring always disrupted his wife Susan’s sleep, but she became worried when she noticed that he seemed to stop breathing periodically at night, and wake up gasping for breath, only to fall back asleep and start the process again. Mark occasionally remembered waking [...]

Natural Herbs and Herbal Medicine for Anxiety Treatment The use of natural herbs for anxiety to ease the often paralysing and uncomfortable sensations that go with this condition are not uncommon. Anxiety disorder is the most prevalent mental health issue in many western countries and using herbal medicine for anxiety has attracted much attention in [...]