News tagged with insomnia
1 in every 5 Spaniards suffers from insomnia
Insomnia is common in Spain, and affects one person in every five. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona and the Stanford University School of ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Brief, individualized counseling improves sleep in older adults with insomnia
A brief behavioral treatment consisting of two in-person sessions and two phone calls appears to alleviate insomnia in older adults for at least six months, according to a report posted online today that will be published ...
Jan 24, 2011 |
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Insomnia after myocardial infarction
The heart and the brain appear to be even more closely connected than previously imagined. The damaging effects of myocardial infarction are apparently not confined to the heart, but also affect the brain. In fact, infarction ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Sleep program needed for IT engineers
Insomnia is bad news for software engineers' quality of life and deserves greater recognition and attention, according to new research by Sara Sarrafi Zadeh and Khyrunnisa Begum from the University of Mysore in India. Their ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Aerobic exercise relieves insomnia
The millions of middle-aged and older adults who suffer from insomnia have a new drug-free prescription for a more restful night's sleep. Regular aerobic exercise improves the quality of sleep, mood and vitality, according ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Use of medication for insomnia or anxiety increases mortality risk by 36 percent
Taking medications to treat insomnia and anxiety increases mortality risk by 36%, according to a study conducted by Genevičve Belleville, a professor at Universite Laval's School of Psychology. The details of this study ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Study finds an increased risk of death in men with insomnia and a short sleep duration
A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep found an elevated risk of death in men with a complaint of chronic insomnia and an objectively measured short sleep duration. The results suggest that public health policy ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Our children aren't sleeping and we're medicating them
A new survey of child psychiatrists indicates that insomnia is a major problem among children in mental health treatment and at least a quarter of these patients are given sleep medication. The results of ...
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Sleep quality of soldiers with migraine is poor
Some 19 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq have migraine and migraine is suspected in another 17 percent. While prevalence of migraine among the U.S. military is well documented , little is known about sleep quality ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Study Sheds Light on a Potential Cause of Insomnia
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study at Emory University, investigators have shed new light on a potential cause of insomnia, demonstrating that products of the immune system called cytokines may be the culprits.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Long-term study links chronic insomnia to increased risk of death
Individuals with chronic insomnia have an elevated risk of death, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday, June 7, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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The association between sleep disturbances and reduced quality of life varies by race
A study in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that having a sleep disturbance is associated with clinically meaningful reductions in health-related quality of life, and the magnitude of thi ...
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Children with insomnia may have impaired heart rate variability
Children with insomnia and shorter sleep duration had impaired modulation of heart rhythm during sleep, Pennsylvania researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease ...
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Behavioral Therapy Improves Sleep and Lives of Patients with Pain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia significantly improved sleep for patients with chronic neck or back pain and also reduced the extent to which pain interfered with their daily functioning, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Losing sleep, losing brain?
Chronic and severely stressful situations, like those connected to depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, have been associated with smaller volumes in "stress sensitive" brain regions, such as the cingulate region ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Insomnia
Insomnia is a symptom of any of several sleep disorders, characterized by persistent difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep despite the opportunity. Insomnia is a symptom, not a stand-alone diagnosis or a disease. By definition, insomnia is "difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep, or both" and it may be due to inadequate quality or quantity of sleep. It is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. Both organic and non-organic insomnia without other cause constitute a sleep disorder, primary insomnia.
According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in the year 2007, approximately 64 million Americans regularly suffer from insomnia each year. Insomnia is 1.4 times more common in women than in men.
For more information about Insomnia, read the full article at
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