According to a study by Taiwanese scientists at Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, the risk of stroke in people with chronic insomnia is 54% higher than those who do not suffer from sleep disorders . The survey was attended by 21 438 people suffering from insomnia, and 64 314 healthy people, not complaining of any problems with sleep. Scientists have been monitoring their health for 4 years. During the study, 583…
A person who has trouble sleeping can find Alzheimer’s disease in the near future , scientists from the University of Washington’s Mditsin School found out, RBC reports. Studies in mice have shown that during the formation of amyloid deposits in the brain, the animals experienced failures in the natural sleep cycle. In 2009, a…
Insomnia (or insomnia) is a sleep disorder characterized by the inability to fall asleep for an extended period of time at night. In the 4th edition of the DSM-IV Classifier of Mental Disorders (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) insomnia is defined as the totality of patient complaints about unsatisfactory quantitative…
Specialists at the University of Cambridge believe that insomnia negatively affects the human brain, reducing its size. Scientists have found that lack of sleep and poor quality of sleep reduces the potential for human motivation, which in turn can manifest itself in the inability to make decisions. During the study, experts…
Canadian scientists have found that insomnia in adults is often associated with … fear of the dark, writes WebMD. The first suspicion about the relationship between sleep problems and phobias came to scientists after analyzing the information received from many people that they prefer to sleep with the lights on. Researchers from…
What if all the elephants are counted, all the patterns on the wallpaper are studied as a keepsake, and the long-awaited dream never came? We are used to complaining to our friends about insomnia, making excuses that we begin to yawn already at the beginning of the working day. But it’s one…
Insomnia is a common ailment in people of all ages. Doctors from the United States were seriously concerned about the lack of sleep in the population, as this directly affects labor productivity. People who suffer from insomnia are less attentive to driving a car, more prone to conflict. Pittsburgh experts have suggested treating…
