By WebMD Medical Reference — 2020
The amount of sleep a person needs depends on many things, including their age.
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REM sleep behavior disorder or RBD is a condition experienced during the REM phase of sleep in which a person acts out his dreams. Normally, during the REM phase of sleep, our brain is active similar to when we are awake but our muscles are paralyzed to prevent us from acting out our dreams.
Sleep Medicine - the treatment and care of various sleep disorders.
Charlene Gamaldo, M.D. Johns Hopkins neurology sleep specialist and medical director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep at Howard County General Hospital and Virginia Runko, Ph.D.
Charlene Gamaldo, M.D.
Sleep disorders are one of the most common problems people face today. These disorders are also known as somnipathy in which sleep patterns are disturbed and can interfere with regular life routines and the physical, mental, emotional, or social ways of life.
Rachel Salas, M.D., Johns Hopkins neurology sleep specialist and assistant medical director practicing at the Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep at Howard County General Hospital explains how sleep specialists can diagnose and treat circadian rhythm disorder.
In this video, David Cohn, MD, Medical Director, the Sleep Center at Princeton Medical Center, discusses the symptoms of sleep disorders and how lack of sleep and disrupted sleep can impact your health.
Sleep problems can be divided into complaints that people have. One of the most common complaints is excessive daytime sleepiness. There are generally 5 major causes for excessive daytime sleepiness, the most common of which is an insufficient quantity of sleep.
You might have heard of insomnia or hypersomnia from symptoms of depression.
Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature’s best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker.
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