Sleep and Health Journal Chicago Blog

In the Dream World, Anything can happen. A fish could be a bird, Or two animals overlapping. In the Dream World, No one is ever left out. No one ever […]

Jim Parks, A Journey Into Light, Inc.“Meditation works!” This is a simple, but profound statement. It is becoming widely accepted that meditation and its cousins: guided meditation, visualization, stress mangement, […]

Effexor (Ventafoxine ) is a realitively new psysoactive medication, which might be helpful to improve depressed mood, decrease anxiety, and fight fatigue. Effexor is different from typical antidepressents. It works […]

It is amazing how much progress we made in the changing the world around us and how little we understand about seemingly obvious and common thing within us like dreams. […]

The Importance of Healthy Sleep For Children

Bill Antilla, RPSGT, Cadwell Labs, Kennewick, Washington Awareness of the importance of healthy sleep is increasing due to the efforts of many in the field of sleep medicine. A new […]

By Peter Dodzik, Psy.D., Managing Editor In the wake of continued research on new medications and surgical procedures for treatment of diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, I have found […]

Stephanie Barkin On March 7th and 8th, the Center for Narcolepsy Research at the University of Illinois Chicago sponsored the “The Life of the Sleepy Person V” conference at the […]

ADHD and Sleep Disorders

Adopted from the National Sleep Foundation, March 13, 2002 Is there a link between sleep disordered breathing (SBD) in children and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? A new report published in […]

Ruth Berger I heard the rats scratching in the basement and they frightened me. I was only five. Thinking they would scratch through the floor door, I listened in terror […]