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The First Night

May 1, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Many folks find they don’t sleep well their first night in a new bed, or anywhere that’s new.  Sleep is more fitful and difficult, rest less lasting.  In the sleep lab this is known as the “first night effect.” The expectation is strong that sleep the first time in a new, or even a different environment, […]

Returning to Sleep

February 28, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

People complain to me ceaselessly – they can’t get back to sleep.  Yet returning to sleep engages the same tools that help you fall asleep. If sleep is as necessary to life as food, why is returning to sleep so difficult?  It seems many of us have forgotten how to rest. To fall asleep most […]

Please don’t wake up – interrupted sleep harms memory (8/01/11)

August 1, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Arousals You Can Live Without Some technologies are astonishing. Imagine this – you want to wake up an animal so quickly and efficiently that you do not change overall sleep – just cause brief arousals that don’t shift the amount of  REM, deep sleep, or how long you get to rest.  And you do it […]

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