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An estimated 50-70 million US adults suffer from sleep or wakefulness disorders.....

prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to frame inadequate sleep as a public health epidemic.

An estimated 50-70 million US adults suffer from sleep or wakefulness disorders, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to frame inadequate sleep as a public health epidemic.

A recent survey found that nearly 30% of adults slept 6 hours or less each night, and only 31% of high school students averaged at least 8 hours nightly.

That bodes poorly for the nation’s health, as researchers have linked poor sleep with a variety of mental and physical health problems ranging from diabetes and cancer to anxiety and depression.

Sleep is a key regulator of homeostasis, and offers many physiological, cognitive, and emotional benefits.

Ten percent of the population have been diagnosed with insomnia, and another 48% present with insomnia-like symptoms. A key hallmark of insomnia is “sleep continuity disruption.”

One night of short sleep may not lead to less depression the following day, but chronic short sleep is tied to greater depression overall for young women.

"The overall message - that poor quality and insufficient sleep lead to poor mood, which, in turn, worsens sleep - was not surprising," said lead author David A. Kalmbach of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.

Sleep Insomnia, a real problem for many is just getting to sleep.

A staggering 55 million Americans meet the clinical definition of insomnia, experiencing not only problems getting to sleep but also serious impairment in their daytime activities.

Does Sleep apnea in young children may affect youngsters' attention, memory and language development?

Sleep apnea causes people to experience repetitive pauses in breathing while they sleep. This causes oxygen levels to drop temporarily, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

The new study involved almost 1,400 public schoolchildren with sleep apnea. The kids ranged in age from 5 to 7. Some, but not all, of the children snored.

Mental Health & Sleep | Snoring, something that we don’t want to talk about, unless it is interrupting our sleep, usually we are reminded or we remind someone else that this is an ongoing problem.