Sleep is an all too vital part of a healthy lifestyle. One 2013 study looked at the relationship between sleep duration and health in Korean adults1. The results showed that poor sleep of 5 hours or less per day and long sleep duration of 9 hours or more per day was associated with poor self-rated…
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Auto-Activation Deficit Patients Dream When Minds Are Blank
Case studies of patients with Auto-Activation Deficit who reported dreams when awakened from REM sleep, even when they demonstrated a mental blank during the daytime, have been documented by Isabelle Arnulf and colleagues from the Sleep Disorders Unit at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC). The paper proves that even patients with Auto-Activation Disorder…
Types of Circadian Rhythm Syndrome Disorders
Circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSD), also known as circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders (CRSWD), are a group of sleep disorders characterized by irregular sleep patterns. They are caused by a chronic pattern of sleep/wake disruptions, which can be caused by a malfunction in one’s biological clock system or a mismatch between one’s endogenous oscillator and externally…