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Family sleep tips and topics
Family sleep tips and topics: A guide for the science-minded parent 2008 Gwen Dewar, all rights reserved 
Welcome to your source for sleep tips and articles based on the latest research in anthropology, brain science, sleep science, and pediatrics.
Here youll find information about baby sleep .
You’ll also find one of the most extensively researched, evidence-based discussions of child sleep requirements available on the web for parents.
Sleep Disorder, Problems Associated With Other Disorders: eMedicine Pediatrics: Developmental and Behavioral
Sleep disturbances in youth represent highly common phenomena that, in severe forms, can interfere with daily patient and family functioning. Interest in pediatric sleep problems continues to increase, yet further investigation is needed to develop empirically based detection and treatment of pediatric sleep disorders.
The consequences of untreated sleep problems may include significant emotional, behavioral, and cognitive dysfunction. The magnitude of these sequelae is inversely proportional to the child’s overall ability to adapt and develop in spite of the sleep disturbance. Nevertheless, sleep regulation remains a critical part of health for youths. Elevated rates of sleep problems exist among children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental, nonpsychiatric medical conditions and psychiatric disorders.
Infant sleep problems: A guide for the science
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 newborn sleep for 8 hours at a stretch. Nor should we try. Babies have their own special physiological needs.
By the same token, we cant approach baby sleep problems the same way we approach sleep disorders in children. For example, researchers warn that major behavioral interventionslike so-called cry-it-out sleep training programsare inappropriate for infants under 6 months of age (Owens et al 1999; France and Blampied 1999).
Get Enough Sleep
Get Enough Sleep-or Else!
A good night’s sleep is more important to your health than you may realize
BY STEPHANIE R. KINNON
Megan Jones* knew she was tired. Though it had been more than 24 hours since the 25-year-old Vancouverite returned from New Zealand, she was still recovering from jet lag. Jones had left New Zealand on Thursday at 7 a.m., and after a 17-hour flight she arrived in Vancouver at 7:25-Thursday morning. She forced herself to stay awake all day, hoping to coerce her body into sleeping through the night.
Lack Of Sleep Alters Hormones, Metabolism, Simulates Effects Of Aging
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 1999) — Chronic sleep loss can reduce the capacity of even young adults to perform basic metabolic functions such as processing and storing carbohydrates or regulating hormone secretion, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the October 23 issue of The Lancet. Cutting back from the standard eight down to four hours of sleep each night produced striking changes in glucose tolerance and endocrine function — changes that resembled the effects of advanced age or the early stages of diabetes — after less than one week.
Although many studies have examined the short-term effects of acute, total sleep deprivation on the brain, this is the first to investigate the impact of chronic, partial sleep loss on the body by evaluating the metabolism and hormone secretion of subjects subjected to sleep restriction and after sleep recovery.
“We found that the metabolic and endocrine changes resulting from a significant sleep debt mimic many of the hallmarks of aging,” said Eve Van Cauter, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and director of the study. “We suspect that chronic sleep loss may not only hasten the onset but could also increase the severity of age-related ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and memory loss.”
Newborn sleep patterns: A survival guide
Newborn sleep patterns: A survival guide for the science-minded parent 2008 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved 
As every parent knows, the world of newborn sleep is exotic and strange. Newborns sleep at odd times. They seem oblivious to differences between night and day. And they awaken frequently.
Put these sleep characteristics together in one small, mewling bundle…and you get some very, very tired parents.
Talk help: I cant sleep too many things are bothering me.
To be honest, I just started that post to see what other people think.
Personally, the only way I’ve been able to relax and get some sleep recently is to concentrate on one thing at a time. There are so many things going on that I have so little control over that I feel myself going insane every time I try to think about them. So, quite frankly, I distract myself by putting all my effort into one thing at a time. I study for my biology course, check my e-mail, play a game, watch a TV show, read my Bible… but I never try to think about something else when I doing one certain thing.
Helping Baby Sleep
Helping Baby Sleep: Unique Products With Soothing Sounds, Vibrations, And Pure Relaxing Comfort For Your Little One!
Trying endlessly to find strategies for soothing a “colicky” baby and helping baby sleep? Then, you my friend, have stumbled across the best information and products you can get! Believe me, I have been where you are now and I will give you all the help you need!Relieved? Good, you should be.
Can’t Lose Weight? Get Some Sleep
This article is from the WebMD Feature Archive
Can’t Shed Those Pounds?
To lose weight seems to be the number one resolution each new year. However, nearly 90% of these resolutions meet with either little or no success. Some people even gain weight instead. Most people never know there may be a very simple reason why: They don’t sleep well.
Studies published in TheJournal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet suggest that sleep loss may increase hunger and affect the body’s metabolism, which may make it more difficult to maintain or lose weight.
Sleep Deprivation and ADHD
In anger I threw my pager across the on-call room, slamming it against the wall. I don’t anger easily or often, but I was a pediatric resident who had been awake for 36 hours. The pager had gone off one time too many. Sleep deprivation had changed me from a calm, caring person into an irritable, impulsive mess.
As if it shouldn’t have been obvious, research has shown that the sleep deprivation associated with residents’ on-call schedules brings about significant “impairment of physician mood” as the sleep deprivation increases (Journal of Occupational Medicine, Dec 1992).
The surprising news is that partial, or low-level, sleep deprivation has a bigger effect on behavior than either the short or long-term complete sleep deprivation experienced by residents (Sleep, May 1996). Until recently, the effects of partial sleep deprivation have been seriously underestimated.