UMich.edu - Gabapentin , or Neurontin ®, is an FDA-approved medication that just might be able to help alcoholics escape from a Catch-22 of the highest order.
People with alcohol problems often use alcohol to get to sleep - but it actually keeps them from getting good-quality sleep all night long.
At the same time, they’re highly [...]

Chop.edu - Bladder problems may leave a mark on the brain, by changing patterns of brain activity, possibly contributing to disrupted sleep and problems with attention. For one in six Americans who have overactive bladder, the involuntary bladder contractions that often trigger more frequent urges to urinate, such mind-body connections may be of more than [...]

AHA - Post-menopausal women who regularly sleep more than nine hours a night seem to have an increased risk of ischemic stroke, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association .
Compared to women sleeping seven hours, the risk of ischemic stroke was 60 to 70 percent higher for those sleeping nine hours or [...]

New study shows that tai chi chih promotes better sleep in older adults .
UCLA.edu - More than half of all older adults complain about having difficulties sleeping, but sleeping pills can have side effects or lead to other health problems, and behavior therapies for insomnia can be costly and often are not available close to [...]

Researchers examined the effects of green tea polyphenols (GTP), administered through drinking water, on rats who were intermittently deprived of oxygen during 12-hour “night” cycles, mimicking the intermittent hypoxia (IH) that humans with obstructive sleep apnea experience.
People with obstructive sleep apnea have been reported to have increased markers of oxidative stress and exhibit architectural [...]

Do you know if you are likely to have obstructive sleep apnea? A team of anesthesiologist researchers has developed a quick, cheap and highly accurate scoring system to identify surgical patients who may have the potentially life-threatening condition of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
The STOP questionnaire is a self-administered screening tool consisting of four simple yes/no [...]