What It’s Like to Spend a Night in a Sleep Lab
If you’re tired of those sleepless nights, a sleep study could be the first step in diagnosing the problem. Check out this first-person account of the experience.
Category: Sleep
Can’t Sleep? Ask Yourself These Questions
If insomnia is hurting your quality of life, try these tips to get to sleep—without medication.
Lung Disease: What You Need to Know to Breathe Easy
Your essential guide to symptoms, risk and prevention.
How to Create a Sleep-Friendly Bedroom
Trouble getting enough sleep, or quality sleep? Your environment may be to blame, but you can make easy fixes to get some rest.
Snoring vs. Sleep Apnea – Is There a Difference?
Quiz yourself to find out if your night noises could indicate sleep apnea, a potentially dangerous condition
Napping: Is it good for everyone?
Brief naps provide significant benefits for improved alertness and performance without leaving you feeling groggy. Dr. Adnan Pervez at REX Pulmonary Specialists answers four important questions about napping for all ages.
No dream: electric brain stimulation during sleep can boost memory
By targeting one facet of the brain’s electrical activity, UNC neuroscientist Flavio Frohlich, PhD, showed it’s possible to enhance memory, laying the groundwork for a new treatment paradigm for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Conquering Sleep Problems
If you’ve been accused of getting up ‘on the wrong side of the bed,’ is it because you didn’t get much sleep on any side on the bed? Some simple changes in your daily habits may be effective in helping you rest easier. Exercise early. Activity too close to bedtime can wind you up and…
UNC researchers find final pieces to the circadian clock puzzle
Sixteen years after scientists found the genes that control the circadian clock in all cells, the lab of UNC’s Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, discovered the mechanisms responsible for keeping the clock in sync.
Are you sleeping in the right position?
Did you know you could actually improve your health while you sleep? It’s true. Your sleep position—whether you’re a side, back or stomach sleeper—not only affects the quality of your sleep, it also can help alleviate or aggravate certain conditions, like sleep apnea, acid reflux and more.