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Case Report: Polysomnography for Insomnia: Missing in Action |
by Barry Krakow, MD
| Sleep Review Magazine
Assessing your use of insomnia standards and guidelines.
When Sarah, a 52-year-old, nonobese woman sought a second opinion
for her severe insomnia, our sleep lab inquired about previous workups.
Two sleep centers offered her sleep hygiene instructions,
cognitive-behavioral therapy, prescription sedatives, and
recommendations for OTC sleep aids including antihistamines and
melatonin. She embraced all these strategies to the best of her
ability, but 5 years later she had little to show for her efforts. The
last piece of advice she received—"you're probably depressed and should
start antidepressants"—sent her scrambling through the Internet where
she found our Web site, and then traveled 600 miles to our sleep
medical center in Albuquerque, NM. More...
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New York Daily News: Do history's greatest figures owe their success to sleeping LESS? |
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Throughout history powerful and influential figures from politicians to performers, inventors to artists have carried out incredible acts on very little sleep. It begs the question: "Does needing a lot of sleep, rather than a little, separate the great from the rest of us?".... "I believe that there are some people who truly need less sleep," agrees Dr. Barry Krakow, author of "Sound Sleep, Sound Mind: 7 Keys to Sleeping Through the Night."
"But in general, the people who get by on less sleep are using something to compensate," he adds. "These celebrities and politicians getting by on less sleep … we know that many of them are ingesting large quantities of caffeine. And I guarantee you they could not get by without that." Read More... |
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