A good sleep depends on many factors: a comfortable bed, fresh air, proper nutrition. But there are people who try different types of mattresses, spend long evening walks, deny themselves heavy food for lunch and still do not fall asleep normally. In this case, insomnia is not associated with a way…
It is difficult to find a woman who would not know the problems with sleep (who has drowsiness, who has insomnia) while waiting for the baby. Especially this problem makes itself felt in the first trimester and third. The reasons for a lot of insomnia: worries and worries associated with an extraordinary…
Have you ever been surprised why we wake up in the morning even if the alarm clock is off and there are no extraneous noises? To study the mechanism of a kind of “miracle of nature” took specialists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. They dismantled the biological clock by a…
Interaction Recently, a dangerous tendency has been outlined for the combined use by young people of energy tonics and alcohol. In addition, caffeine enhances the effect of alcohol on the brain. A recent study, presented by the portal medforce.ru, comparing intoxication after drinking with alcohol intoxication from the combination of alcohol /…
The Arab doctor and alchemist Razes, even before 1000 AD, described in his writings the healing properties of the Binchum drink, that is, coffee. In the East, it was believed that coffee accelerates thinking, amuses the heart, and helps against eye diseases, gout, dropsy and scurvy. The Italian doctor and botanist…
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…
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,…
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…