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Driving Asleep

June 29, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Ever driven while asleep?  No?  Are you sure? In America people fall asleep at the wheel all the time.  Many sleep experiences are microsleeps, brief “lapses of attention” where much of your brain is asleep – but not necessarily all of it.  Microsleeps are generally just seconds long.  On the highway, a three second highway microsleep means […]

You May Never Get Out of Bed Again

May 29, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

If 85% of Americans die in bed, you might think people would regularly want to get out of them.  Beds are wonderfully designed for sleep and sex.  But do you want to use them (much) for anything else? The commercial answer is yes!  World industry is moving heaven and earth to create devices that will make it possible […]

Marijuana – the Panacea of Our Times? (5/12/14)

May 12, 2014 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Marijuana – What Does It Treat?    “It does everything,” my colleague explained, shaking his head.   “It treats pain. It treats headaches. It treats depression and anxiety. Epilepsy.  They keep asking me for it, every day.” A novel antidepressant? An extraordinary new anti-anxiety agent? No, marijuana. My internist friend is bombarded with requests to […]

Driving Through Sleep (4/21/14)

April 21, 2014 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Transport and Sleep  Chance can kill you. So can sleepiness. People on the Metro-North commuter train into Manhattan were expecting a normal trip one morning last December. Until something “abnormal” occurred. At 7:20 AM, the train turned into a thirty mile an hour flying  at 82 miles per hour.   They were  heading towards Spuyten […]

Chancing It (3/31/14)

March 31, 2014 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Chances Are… Does time control life? Or does chance? Items: – A famous calligrapher, you settle into your airplane’s aisle seat and pull out your pen.  It’s a poor substitute for the brush, but you have many notes of thanks to write. Chinese calligraphy is one of the world’s great art forms. Actively collected and […]

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