Why Do Kids Go To Bed Late? Good and Bad Impact of Media on Adolescent Sleep
The question is: what should and could we do about it? To find the answer, we need to be fair both to the media and to the kids. Television is […]
December 2007
Sleep Problems and Food are Related
Dear Dr. Sleep, Help! For years I’ve been able to hide my sleep problems, but now, with children who have to be carpooled, and get to school on time, I […]
Velazquez
Velazquez Venus: The Toilet of Venus The Toilet of Venus is also known by the title Venus at her Mirror, as well as The Rokeby Venus, since it was held […]
Placebo Effect – Why Do You Need to Know About It?
Placebo effect was known since the dawn of civilizations but only recently the neuroscience discovered that this phenomenon is the essence of the deepest secrets of mind-body “programming” for health, […]
Metabolic Syndrome (high cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose)
Why diabetes causes mortality? It is well explained by a comprehensive cardiovascular model. According to this concept multiple independent factors such as high blood sugar, lipid disproportions, high blood pressure, […]
Some Herbal Sleep Products Lack Key Claimed Ingredient
Only nine of the seventeen Valerian products passed the ConsumerLab.com’s testing. For products completely lacked the marker compounds that identify the presence of Valeriana Officinalis and four others has roughly […]
Mild Body Disorders: Unraveling the Mystery
According to their hypothesis, mildly disordered behavior of a specific organ or a system may actively serve as an alternative compensation to serious life threatening diseases. An example of active […]
Writing About Sleep from the Road
Admittedly, this trip was different because it revolved around my receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Medical Academy of Lublin, Poland for my contributions to the education of […]
Time to Go To Sleep! It’s School Time…
Many of us are much too aware of the problems of sleep deprivation as we entered higher education, like college and graduate school, but now, at alarming rates, young students […]
The Lost Man with Amnesia was Recognized by His Family
He had left his home September 6, 2006 to visit his mother in Slave Lake, Alberta, but never made a scheduled stop that evening at his fiancee’s mother’s house in […]