40% of Germans suffer from insomnia

About 7.4 million German citizens suffer from sleep disorders. This ailment is the result of constant workload at work and is not as harmless as it might seem at first glance. The members of the German Society of Somnology (DGSM) discussed methods of dealing with this phenomenon at the annual meeting on Friday…

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A week in nature will cure insomnia

Scientists from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2011 conducted an experiment to identify the effect of sunlight on the body’s biological clock. The results were published in the journal Current Biology.   Eight volunteers with different biological rhythms (there were “owls” and “larks” among them), at the request of specialists, went to the desert,…

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With chronic insomnia, the risk of stroke is 54% higher

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…

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Insomnia may signal future Alzheimer’s

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…

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How to deal with insomnia

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…

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Brain size gets smaller from insomnia

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…

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