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Night Owl or Lark? Personality Traits Predict Sleep Patterns
The link between the different hierarchies of personality, sleep patterns and even genetics has been discovered by researchers from the...
Phil Harris
Jun 23, 20213 min read
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Sleep Patterns Lift Depression
Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person's risk of major depression by 23%, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published...
Phil Harris
Jun 7, 20214 min read
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New Treatment Approach for Traumatic Nightmares
A new technological solution has emerged for the treatment of traumatic nightmares and has just been cleared as a treatment by the FDA in...
Phil Harris
Nov 24, 20201 min read
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Sleep & Trauma: More Evidence of a Link
Sleep is crucial for consolidating our memories, and sleep deprivation has long been known to interfere with learning and memory. Now a...
Phil Harris
Nov 18, 20203 min read
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What Triggers Nightmares in PTSD?
It's been estimated that up to 88% of survivors of sexual assault suffer from persistent nightmares that can occur multiple times per...
Phil Harris
Jun 16, 20203 min read
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How Nightmares Help Us
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals...
Phil Harris
Dec 12, 20194 min read
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Addiction Dreams Haunt Recovery
Vivid dreams involving drinking and drug use are common among individuals in recovery. A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital...
Phil Harris
Feb 13, 20192 min read
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Poor Sleep? More Pain
After one night of inadequate sleep, brain activity ramps up in pain-sensing regions while activity is scaled back in areas responsible...
Phil Harris
Jan 30, 20191 min read
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More on Sleep and Adolescent Risk Taking
Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent of high school...
Phil Harris
Oct 5, 20182 min read
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Sleep, Memory & PTSD
Here is a really interesting article published in the Big Think that explains the links between sleep and PTSD. Click here to read.
Phil Harris
Aug 6, 20181 min read
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Sleep and Depression Link Identified
There has always been a strong connection between depression and sleep. But does depression affect sleep or sleep affect depression? A...
Phil Harris
May 31, 20181 min read
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First Sleep - Second Sleep
In exploring sleep patterns people are surprised how we used to sleep in two shorter blocks of time rather than in an eight hour block....
Phil Harris
Apr 18, 20181 min read
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Sleep and the Memory Vault
During the hours of sleep the memory performs a cleaning shift. A study led by a Spanish scientist at the University of Cambridge reveals...
Phil Harris
Mar 19, 20183 min read
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Why Do We Sleep?
The debate in sleep science has gone on for a generation. People and other animals sicken and die if they are deprived of sleep, but why...
Phil Harris
Feb 19, 20182 min read
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Master Your Dreams: How to Achieve Lucid Dream States
Lucid dreaming is a state of sleep whereby you realize you are in a dream and have the ability to consciously control what happens next....
Phil Harris
Oct 29, 20171 min read
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Ever Woke Up in the Night Paralyzed?
As one of the 30 per cent of the population that experiences sleep paralysis, I am fascinated with the subject. Discussion of the...
Phil Harris
Oct 16, 20171 min read
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Schizophrenia: A Wakeful Dream?
Many years ago I recall Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell suggesting that schizophrenia may be caused by dream centers in the brain. A recent...
Phil Harris
Sep 29, 20173 min read
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ADHD: A Sleep Disorder?
Around 75% of children and adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) also have sleep problems, but until now these have...
Phil Harris
Sep 5, 20172 min read
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Risk Taking: Sleep Related?
Teenagers are the most sleep deprived group in society. Whilst sleep requirements tail-off across childhood, they increase again sharply...
Phil Harris
Aug 30, 20172 min read
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