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1. Health Highlights: Dec. 1, 2008 - US News and World Report
Scientists Halt, Reverse Heart Disease in Mice Night Terrors Have Hereditary Component: Study Study Questions Use of Antioxidants to Fight Aging Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
2. When Sleep Problems Become Legal Problems, Neuroscience Can Help
Sleepwalking, sleep driving, and other "parasomnias" can get you entangled with the law.
3. Night terror
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Night terrors are a sleep disorder in which a person quickly awakens from sleep in a terrified state. Reviewer: Allen J. Blaivas, D.O., Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Veteran Affairs, VA System, East Orange, NJ. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
4. Sleep terror disorder
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Sleep terror disorder is defined as repeated temporary arousal from sleep, during which the affected person appears and acts extremely frightened. Author: Tish Davidson A.M. Expand your search to include all of U.S. News
5. Nightmares -- EMedicineHealth Consumer Information
Some studies estimate that as many as 50% of children aged 3-6 years have nightmares that disturb both their sleep and their parents' sleep. Nightmare disorder involves frightening or unpleasant dreams that disrupt the child's sleep on several... http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/47912-1.asp
6. Night terrors -- Information from Harvard Medical School
Sleep terrors (also called night terrors or. For several nights, record the length of time between when the child falls asleep and the beginning of the sleepwalking or night terrors. Although sleepwalkers occasionally injure themselves or others,... http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/34857.html
7. Sleep Problems: Night Terrors and Sleepwalking -- Information from the Merck Manual
Night Terrors and Sleepwalking. Night terrors, episodes of incomplete awakening with extreme anxiety shortly after falling asleep, are most common between the ages of 3 and 8. Night terrors are dramatic because the child screams and is... http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec23/ch269/ch269e.html# |
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