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So, in the fall of 2023, when I found myself lying in bed thinking, "I just want to go to sleep and never wake up again," it felt like I was having an out-of-body experience.
This may look like lifestyle changes (think: diet and exercise), cognitive behavioral therapy (which Dr. Rosser says is still the gold standard for managing sleep issues), or hormone therapy.
The Sleep Foundation says that 40 percent of women in their late 40s and early 50s report sleep problems, and that hormonally related sleep issues can include night sweats, insomnia, sleep ...
What to expect during perimenopause, including lesser-known symptoms and how long this phase lasts. Many women are blindsided by perimenopause. 5 facts everyone should know about this time of life ...
According to a study on sleep disturbances in the Journal of Neural Transmission, a hypnic jerk occurs during the non-rapid eye movement sleep cycle and is an "abrupt muscle action flexing movement, generalized or partial and asymmetric, which may cause arousal, with an illusion of falling". [13]
Research from 2019 suggests nighttime wakings are the most common sleep-related complaint during the transition to menopause, and they can negatively affect a person's quality of life and ...
It is crucial to aim for objective measures to quantify the sleepiness. A good measurement tool is the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). It assesses the sleep onset latency during the course of one day—often from 8:00 to 16:00. [10] An average sleep onset latency of less than 5 minutes is an indication of pathological sleepiness. [11]
Hori et al. regard sleep onset hypnagogia as a state distinct from both wakefulness and sleep with unique electrophysiological, behavioral and subjective characteristics, [10] [12] while Germaine et al. have demonstrated a resemblance between the EEG power spectra of spontaneously occurring hypnagogic images, on the one hand, and those of both ...