Knitting up the raveled sleave of care: role of sleep and effects of its lack examined

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The American Sleep Disorders Association and Sleep Research Society reports on recent research. Studies show that most adults would sleep longer and would sleep several times a day if free to do so. Sleep deprivation most strongly affects the areas of the brain responsible for attention, alertness, short-term memory, calculation, sensory processing, and reasoning and problem solving. Nonrapid eye movement sleep appears to selectively help the brain centers associated with complex mental operations recuperate. Adjusting resident physicians on-call schedule to allow for more sleep might improve performance.

Physiological aspects, Sleep deprivation

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Promoting adequate sleep finds a place on the public health agenda

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Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders are believed to be the causative factors in diabetes and obesity that leads to sleep disordered breathing (SDB). The two-day meeting by National Center on Sleep Disorders Research aimed to boost recognition and treatment of sleep disorders while various action plans were suggested to improve the quality of life.

Care and treatment, Causes of, Risk factors, Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Obesity, Sleep apnea syndromes, Sleep apnea

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Patients need more help to quit smoking: Counseling and pharmacotherapy double success rate

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Psychiatrist and psychologists believe that the primary care physicians can double a patient's odds of quitting smoking with brief counseling and pharmacological therapies. They believe that smokers who live with or work with other smokers, face tough time in quitting from those who do not.

United States, Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Antismoking Programs, Diagnosis, Smoking cessation programs, Smoking cessation, Smokers

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