Sleep expert Amy Lowery of Memorial Sloan-Kettering describes common sleep disorders and how to treat them.
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You might have heard of insomnia or hypersomnia from symptoms of depression.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorders can account for many sleep problems. There are many people who have an irregular body clock and they just don’t know it.
In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adolescents are regularly sleep-deprived. This isn’t just a minor inconvenience: staying awake can cause serious bodily harm. Claudia Aguirre shows what happens to your body and brain when you skip sleep.
John Hockenberry - three-time Peabody Award winner, four-time Emmy winner, and host of NPR's The Takeaway - interviews Dr. Oliver Sacks, the best-selling author and professor of neurology at NYU School of Medicine, about the ability of the human brain to cope with injury and illness.
In this talk, Dr. Maté shared his insights into how disease can be the body’s way of saying ‘no’ to that which the mind cannot or will not acknowledge.
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