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Despite previous evidence that both cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) can be effective treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), some patients’ organisations have reported that these treatments can be harmful and instead prefer pacing and specialist medical care (SMC). The PACE t… |
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Researchers have known for decades that alcohol can initially deepen sleep during the early part of the night but then disrupt sleep during the latter part of the night; this is called a “rebound effect.” A new study of the influence of gender and family history of alcoholism on sleep has found that intoxication c… |
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New research from Warwick Medical School published (8 february 2011) in the European Heart Journal shows that prolonged sleep deprivation and disrupted sleep patterns can have long-term, serious health implications. Leading academics from the University have linked lack of sleep to strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular di… |
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Have a lot to do? A good night’s sleep will help you remember, study finds… When it comes to executing items on tomorrow’s to-do list, it’s best to think it over, then “sleep on it,” say psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis. People who sleep after processing and storing a memory carry out their … |
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Philadelphia, PA, 17 June, 2010 – There is a great deal of interest in factors that contribute to the vulnerability to developing post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. One factor that appears to contribute to the heritable vulnerability to PTSD is a variation in the gene that codes for the serotonin transporter, also… |
