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Participants in a small study slept an average of 27.7 minutes longer when they took regular exercise breaks in the evening over a four-hour period compared with when they sat uninterrupted.
Avoiding catastrophic thoughts after a night of unfulfilling sleep is key – insomnia is unpleasant, but not detrimental to health, at least short-term. Developing strategies to cope with recurring sleep problems may be helpful, since patients with insomnia are more likely to experience sleep disturbances in the future.
Regular exercise has so many health benefits, and treating insomnia could be added to that list, according to a new study. Regular exercise has so many health benefits, and treating insomnia could ...
The cognitive shuffle is based on Beaudoin’s somnolent information processing theory. [5] [13] The somnolent information processing theory postulates the existence of a sleep onset control system that evolved to ensure that falling asleep tends to happen when it is evolutionarily opportune (safe, timely) to fall asleep. [14]
Sleep research conducted in the 1990s showed that such waking up during the night may be a natural sleep pattern, rather than a form of insomnia. [2] If interrupted sleep (called "biphasic sleeping" or " bimodal sleep ") is perceived as normal and not referred to as "insomnia", less distress is caused and a return to sleep usually occurs after ...
A rare genetic condition can cause a prion-based, permanent and eventually fatal form of insomnia called fatal familial insomnia [66] Physical exercise: exercise-induced insomnia is common in athletes in the form of prolonged sleep onset latency [67] Increased exposure to the blue light from artificial sources, such as phones or computers [68]
Sleep hygiene studies use different sets of sleep hygiene recommendations, [15] and the evidence that improving sleep hygiene improves sleep quality is weak and inconclusive as of 2014. [2] Most research on sleep hygiene principles has been conducted in clinical settings, and there is a need for more research on non-clinical populations. [2]
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