by Amabelle Equio A new study brings hope for patients battling with obstructive sleep apnea and diabetes type 2 and poorly controlled blood sugar. The senior author, Francisco Garcia – Rio, MD, professor of medicine at the Autonoma University of Madrid, discovered that the use of continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, improves blood sugar…
Intense Nighttime Light Exposure is Bad for Your Sleep Health
by Amabelle Equio A recent study confirms that intense nighttime light exposure is not good for your sleep health. Maurice Ohayon, MD, DSC, Ph.D., a Stanford University scientist, said that exposure to intense nighttime light affects sleep duration, which is also linked to sleep disturbance. According to the results, approximately 500,000 urban dwellers were more…
Researchers Find Sleep Apnea Can Take A Toll On Brain Function
If you suffer from sleep apnea or know someone who does, then you know how it harms a good night’s sleep. For those that are not aware of what sleep apnea is, it’s a disorder that is characterized by pauses in breathing or instances of decreased breathing during sleep. Pauses in breathing can last for…
RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE WITH HYPERSOMNIA
General (Sleep Related): American Academy of Sleep Medicine National Sleep Foundation National Center on Sleep Disorders Research National Sleep Foundation-Waking America to the Importance of Sleep Narcolepsy (with Cataplexy): Narcolepsy Network Wake Up Narcolepsy National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Stanford Center for Narcolepsy National Sleep Foundation Idiopathic Hypersomnia/Major Somnolence Disorder: National Institutes…
Narcolepsy Treatment
There are several treatments approved by the FDA for use in narcolepsy. There are no treatments approved for idiopathic hypersomnia (IHS), although it is common practice to use wake-promoting medications that are known to be effective in patients with narcolepsy to treat the sleepiness associated with idiopathic hypersomnia. These treatments have not been studied to…
Sleep Movement Disorders
This classification of sleep disorders includes conditions that cause movement during or prior to sleep. These disorders can make it difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep, or to get restful sleep.
Parasomnias
Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that involve unwanted events or experiences that occur while you are falling asleep, sleeping or waking up. Parasomnias may include abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions or dreams. Although the behaviors may be complex and appear purposeful to others, you remain asleep during the event and often have no…
Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders
This category of disorders includes conditions in which the sleep times are out of alignment. A patient with one of these disorders does not follow the normal sleep times at night.
Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
Sleep disorders that involve difficulty breathing during sleep are classified as sleep related breathing disorders. Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common disorder of this type, however there are a number of variations of sleep apnea.
Hypersomnias
Hypersomnias are a group of sleep disorders that causes a person to be excessively sleepy. People with a hypersomnia may fall asleep at times that are inconvenient or even dangerous, such as at work or while driving. They may also have other sleep-related difficulties, a lack of energy and trouble thinking clearly. Narcolepsy is the…