Is Depression Making Me Sleepless, Or Is Insomnia Making Me Depressed? Depression and insomnia are common and possess common symptoms. Some estimate that 30% of Americans will eventually experience clinical depression, and perhaps 40% of adults complain that many or most nights they don’t get enough sleep, wake too often, or feel unrested on awakening. […]
Can we evolve to sleep less? (4/11/11)
Can You Really Evolve to Sleep Less? Perhaps – if you’re like a cavefish. Research done at NYU by Professor Richard Borowsky and company, reported last week in Current Biology, looks at a Mexican species of fish that has evolved to live in caves. The cavefish version of Astyanax Mexicanus are also blind. When brought […]
Let your pilot sleep (4/4/11)
Trouble in the Air Holes blow through the tops of airplanes. Cracks appear in the fuselages. Air traffic controllers nod off while the planes are flying – at the main airport for Congress. It’s not been a good time for air travel. And there’s more trouble – pilots involuntarily are falling asleep in the air. […]
When your air traffic controller falls asleep (3/30/11)
Sleep and Security Pilots fall asleep flying. Drivers fall asleep driving. Nuclear plant operators fall asleep manipulating spent fuel rods. Air traffic controllers fall asleep while planes keep flying… Last week the air traffic controller for Ronald Reagen, formerly National Airport, fell asleep. He was controlling traffic at the Washington D.C. airport that is a […]
It’s the middle of the night and you can’t sleep – what you can do (3/28/11)
Waking At Night Perhaps it’s the effect of a crashed economy, soaring gas prices, upheaval in the Middle East, blown up nuclear reactor buildings or the Charles Sheen saga, but people are waking up a lot these days – in the middle of the night. Frequently they can’t fall back to sleep. There […]
