Sleep Disorders in Elderly / Ageing and Sleep

People tend to sleep less well as they age. They may sleep lighter and wake up periodically in the night, or feel sleepy and tired through the day, or they may suffer from other sleep pathologies like sleep-disordered breathing and the periodic limb movement disorder.

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Sleep Disorders: A Prelude

Sleep disorders cause a person to have disturbed, unrestful, or unusual sleep patterns; or they cause behaviors during sleep that normally happen when someone is awake. Sleep disorders have a domino effect on other areas of life, because lack of sleep and rest easily cause other problems at work or in relationships and even health.

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Sleep Disturbances In Women

Sleep disturbances – like insomnia and sleep eating – are more common among women. Stressors like work and caring for infants, depression, and hormonal problems can cause sleep disturbances.

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Sleep Eating Disorders

People with sleep eating disorders eat and sometimes prepare food in their sleep. Like sleep walkers, they have no or very little memory of this when they are awake. Many people with sleep eating disorders diet during the day, and they tend to be depressed, worried, exhausted or angry.

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Sleep Talking, Sleep Terrors and Nightmares

Many children, and a few adults, talk in their sleep. Sleep talking is sometimes, but not always, associated with dreaming and the rapid eye movement-phase of sleep. It is not usually considered a disorder, and most children outgrow it. But if the sleep talking is vulgar or violent, it can be a sign of other problems.

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Sleep Walking / Somnambulism

Sleepwalking or "Somnambulism," is a kind of parasomnia which has medico-legal implications. Sleepwalking commonly occurs in the initial third phase of a night's sleep. Sleepwalking or somnambulism typically manifests during the slow-wave cycle of sleep, also called as Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) Sleep. In certain rare cases, victims may walk during a day- time nap.Sleepwalking events can be di ... Read More

Small Intestine Biopsy

The small intestine is approximately 21 feet long and consists of three sections - the Duodenum, Jejunum and the ileum, most of the digestion and absorption of food occurs in small intestine. Definition Small intestine biopsy is a diagnostic procedure in which a portion of the small. Intestinal lining is removed for examination. A flexible fiber-optic tube (endoscope) is inserted through your m ... Read More

Smoking And Cancer

Smoking is a kind of recreational drug use when a substance (usually tobacco) is burned and the vapors inhaled. Smoking is addictive, and smokers are at risk for a number of diseases including lung cancer.

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Smoking And Tobacco

Smoking is a form of recreational drug use in which a substance, usually tobacco, is burned and the smoke inhaled. Smokers are at risk for a number of heart and lung diseases.

Join this online forum on smoking to contact doctors who deal with the addiction, and people who have managed to kick it.

South Beach Diet

Hey! hang on! What follows is not a mystery novella written on the south beach but a write up on a new concept to weight loss, which proclaims to be a way of life. Created by Dr. Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist, to work with the body safely and effectively. It started as a fad diet like many others including the Atkins diet, now is a rage and people swear by it. It is a three phase diet, the first ... Read More