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Sleep Study

Logically, we believe that our minds rest while we are sleeping. However, based on some studies from the United States, our brains work while we are snoozing, storing the various events that took part in the day and registering them in our minds thus strengthening our memory.

If you look at it, it is like downloading videos from you video camera. All the events that have transpired are replayed and stored, making your memory storage entirely wider. This is perhaps one reason why sleeping is a good time to rest for the body but not the brain. It still functions without our knowledge and it does some things we least expect.

Researchers in the United States have carried out a study and found while you sleep, your brain remains busy in strengthening the memories of what you did during the day and it does it in quick spurts, as if your day was being replayed in fast-forward.

“The brain’s medial prefrontal cortex replays daytime activities during sleep six to seven times faster than real time,” the WebMD reported, quoting lead researcher Dr David Euston was quoted as saying.

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Mother and Child

Not all moms are taught on how to be able to handle new babies, especially the first timers. One of the main problems is caring for their child and the proper way to lull them to sleep. While such is a responsibility tasked for budding parents of today, it remains that teaching them about this fact and reality of life is something that they can very well learn from in both ways.

There is no such way of putting babies to sleep professionally. It depends as well on how an infant react and responds to the attention being given to them. While most people are worried of doing the wrong thing, parents should at least observe and determine ways on how to care for their child better. They just have to start somewhere, sometime.

Teaching new mothers strategies to help their babies overcome sleep problems yields significant benefits for both of them, according to a study conducted in Australia.

Among 328 moms who reported that their 7-month-old was having sleep problems, those who were randomly assigned to participate in a brief behavioral intervention noticed an improvement in their child’s sleep problem, and in their own sleep, and felt less depressed compared with those randomly assigned not to participate in the program.

Source: Program helps moms get fussy infants to sleep

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Sleep Apnea

Unless there are other means a person has resorted to for them to conclude that they have the dreaded sleep apnea problem, chances are it will all be a matter of psychological proportions.

The only way a person can find out if he is indeed hit with this hated sleep disorder is through consulting a sleep specialist who in turn will endorse patients to a sleep lab for more elaborate testing.

Sleep apnea is not inherited and concluded based on facts alone. It needs some medical support findings as well before its presence is officially concluded.

Why is sleep apnea serious?

Sleep apnea is nothing to be taken lightly. Dr. Steven Moore, director at Sleep Management Institute, explains that sleep apnea can create low oxygen levels and heart-rhythm problems.

“Other symptoms would be the risk of falling asleep while driving or while using heavy equipment,” Moore says. Sleep apnea also has been linked to heart disease and diabetes, and has a weak correlation to strokes.

Read more: How do I know if I have sleep apnea?

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Kids Who Lack Sleep in the Classroom
Vacation time is over and most of the kids will be trooping back to their schools to continue their studies to the next level. While the school break may have more than spoiled them from observing the proper sleeping hours, it is time to once again regulate their body clocks of sleeping on time and wake up in the morning to go to school.This is one thing that a parent or guardian should include in the things to remember when it comes to preparing for the new school year. Getting the proper amount of sleep is still the best way to keep bright minds thinking and understanding what they learn from school.

Source: Time to Set Kids’ Back-to-School Sleep Clocks

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Sleep Apnea Symposium


What better way is there to further enhance and be up to date with the relevant issues concerning the obstructive sleep apnea issue than to hear it from the actual professionals? A sleep apnea symposium has been set to be held on August 16 to August 18 at Utica, New York which is expected to bring in medical and dental professionals to find more juice on how to handle sleep apnea today.Sleep apnea has been a growing concern and to this day, it has indeed been something that has become utterly serious than pure sleeping problems in our day. Sleep professionals want to add on to their current line of sleep-related issues and this symposium aims to do just that.

Source: Sleep apnea symposium offered

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