My guess is that poor sleep, over months and years, increases your risk of dementia, most commonly AD (Alzheimer's Disease). I think of a night of poor sleep as a blow to the head, and its effects are cumulative over a lifetime. Remember how boxers and football players accumulate tiny injuries and micro tears of brain tissue: dementia pugilistica and traumatic … [Read more...]
Keep Calm and Sleep: Your Personal Prime Performance Plan – Meeting Your Deadline
Whether facing a big test, sports competition, or a major life event, you need a personalized plan. You must address sleep, attention, and stress to meet your deadline. We help you with all three. What are you preparing for? A Big Test or Exam, such as: Bar exam, Finals, Dissertation Sports competition, such as: Race, Golf Tournament, Tennis Match, Team … [Read more...]
The Basics of CBTi (Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia) Principles
CBTi As Medical/Psychological Treatment: CBTi is available as practiced by state licensed therapy professionals such as psychologists, physicians including psychiatrists and sleep specialists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, nurse practitioners. It is often covered by insurance, as are other forms of psychotherapy, when based on an appropriate diagnosis such … [Read more...]
FAQ for Sleep Therapy Terminology
Don't lose sleep over all the technical terms associated with sleep therapy. To help you better understand "sleep" terminology we have a FAQ page with helpful and easy-to-understand definitions. Click Here to access. … [Read more...]
The Many Faces of Sleep: Awake Feeling Rested
All right, already....We are about to become accustomed or even bored by the stream of news and research reports. Yes, lack of sleep could be a causal factor in obesity, depression, suicide, hypertension, diabetes, cancers, immune system defects, addiction relapse, attention deficit problems, dementia, mitochondrial energy lapses, and much besides. My friends and patients are … [Read more...]