Sleep Disorders | Page 2

Insomnia can be a real dream killer, and it’s a problem that plagues far more people than you realize. According to the National Institute of...

When was the last time you were too excited to sleep? Was it over an important job interview? How about an upcoming vacation? This priceless...

Who doesn’t love a great midnight snack? The problem is, those midnight snacks might not be showing your body the love it really needs to...

Everyone needs a good night’s sleep each and every night. Unfortunately, for a large segment of the population that is a rare commodity. While there...

Sleep, aside from food and water, is one of the most important things the body needs in order to repair itself, recover from injuries, and...

The average person feels a little jagged around the edges as a result of a sleepless night or even a night when the quality of...

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also referred to as the “winter blues” in its milder form, impacts roughly half a million individuals each winter, according to...

For one Pittsburgh surburbia teen, Sleeping Beauty isn’t just Walt Disney movie or fairy tale book. For Nicole Delien, Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS), sometimes referred to...

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, somniloquy, also known as sleep talking is a condition that impacts half of all young children and...

Shift work is a reality of our modern economy. Services don’t stop running when the sun goes down. Without night workers—nurses and doctors, toll booth...

Kids these days! I never thought I’d say those words, but here I am worried about how much time kids spend on the computer and...

My husband snores. It isn’t a cute little snuffle here and there or an occasional bad night. He snores like a buzz saw and it’s...

I live in New York and right now, the days are abysmally short. It starts getting dark around 4 PM, and that’s about when I...

Romantic relationships are wonderful—without my husband, I’d be adrift, lonely, and decidedly unhappy—but that doesn’t mean marriage isn’t hard. I’m very proud of my relationship...

As the end of the fall semester looms ever larger, students across the country are hunkering down for the dreaded all-nighters: the non-stop cramming sessions...

People who sleep soundly often take the ubiquitous activity for granted. They are unfamiliar with the endless wakeful nights of the tormented insomniac. But most...

Every Thanksgiving, the rumor goes around that eating too much turkey will make you tired. While there is tryptophan in turkey, it seems that the...

With Veteran’s Day passing yesterday, it’s interesting and helpful to discuss the difficulties servicemen and their families can have in completing everyday tasks that most...

It seems that in this day and age, there are more and more difficulties plaguing our children. Between the rise in childhood obesity and the...

  It happens to the best of us. You have a late night snack, or even just a rich dinner and you end up paying...

This Halloween, after your kids come down from their sugar high, they’re bound to here plenty of ghost stories on Halloween night. When they finally...

For years and years, my mother and grandmother have been telling me, “make sure you dry your hair before you go to sleep, you’ll catch...

We’ve officially said goodbye to summer and are in the thick of the autumn season. With the changing of the leaves, comes unfortunately, the fall...

Halloween is a mere twenty days away and while for the kids across the world, this is seen as a great thing, for many parents,...

With the presidential elections right around the corner, it seems that our lives are centered around the candidates’. Have you ever thought that you and...

It’s another morning you wake up after far too few hours of sleep. While you might think you can catch up on this lack of...

We all know that one of the leading causes of sleep deprivation is from stress at work. But have you ever wondered what the most...

In today’s world, we all know someone who’s struggling with Post-traumatic stress disorder. Be it a war veteran or someone who’s been involved in a...

One of the most amazing moments in life is the joy of having a new baby. From the tiny clothes to the precious nursery, it...

You’re going abroad on maybe a vacation or business, either way there’s a lot to get used to. Maybe you have to learn an entirely...

You’ve just signed up for an afternoon on a cruise and while it sounded like a good idea at the time, the seasickness you got...

While we’ve all seen too many TV specials on strange sleep disorders that seem completely and totally outrageous, have you ever wondered what the most...

We’ve all been there before: you have a big day ahead of you tomorrow and you’ve been up most of the night stressing about it....

  While a new piercing can be fun and exciting, it can be especially uncomfortable to sleep on. Read on for some do’s and don’ts...