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...
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Jun 7, 20214 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Nov 24, 20201 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Nov 18, 20203 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Jun 16, 20203 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Dec 12, 20194 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Feb 13, 20192 min read
Addiction Dreams Haunt Recovery
Vivid dreams involving drinking and drug use are common among individuals in recovery. A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital...
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Phil Harris
Jan 30, 20191 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Oct 5, 20182 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Aug 6, 20181 min read
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.
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Phil Harris
May 31, 20181 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Apr 18, 20181 min read
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....
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Phil Harris
Mar 19, 20183 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Feb 19, 20182 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Oct 29, 20171 min read
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....
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Phil Harris
Oct 16, 20171 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Sep 29, 20173 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Sep 5, 20172 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Aug 30, 20172 min read
Risk Taking: Sleep Related?
Teenagers are the most sleep deprived group in society. Whilst sleep requirements tail-off across childhood, they increase again sharply...
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