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I just saw a summary of a new study, described in the June 27th edition of the on-line journal/resource Cell (www. Cell.com). The study indicates that a mutation in the CALHM1 gene may cause problems with a brain calcium channel and lead to the build up of a protein that is a key part of the plaques that affect the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. New developments in the detection of Alzheimer’s are always inter… Continue

Almost 8 percent of children in the United States are diagnosed with ADHD . This figure jumps up to almost 10 percent when looking solely at boys. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder affects millions of children each year, and some experts think it may be related, at least in part, to sleep. Researchers at Hasbro Children's Hospital have found that children with sleep disordered breathing (disorders like sleep apnea or snoring) were mu… Continue

According to researchers at the University of Chicago, diabetes and poor sleep quality may be more closely linked than we thought. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, indicates that the quality of sleep and the amount of deep sleep a person gets each night may be related to reduced glucose tolerance. In the study, nine otherwise healthy young adul… Continue

Ask someone to picture a teenager's sleep habits and what you'll hear is usually much more of the "I can't get him out of bed" variety than anything having to do with insomnia. A new long term study, though, indicates that the seeds of chronic insomnia in adulthood might be sown in the teen years. The study, conducted by Dr. Jules Angst, of Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital in Switzerland, looked at sleep habits… Continue

I was looking through some of the really good resources collected in the Toddler Sleep Page on WEGO Health (thanks, Felisha!) and many of the articles I came across suggested removing the TV from your young child’s bedroom to help curb sleep problems. Wait… TVs in toddler bedrooms?? What are parents thinking?!? Apparently, more than a third of parents of preschoolers – kids who are three and four, mind you - think that it is all right for their kids to have TVs in their rooms. Not only do the… Continue