So your hubby snores like a truck driver. Ever wonder why your brain can’t tune it out? Now, it seems that neuroscience may have the answer.
According to a 2011 study entitled: Functional Neuroimaging Insights into the Physiology of Human Sleep. by researchers Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, MD, PhD, Manuel Schabus, PhD and others, it shows that when “sleep spindle” shaped brainwaves are present, the auditory sound input is blocked out. So for all intents and purposes you can snooze right next to your human buzz-saw of a partner and never hear a peep.
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With the recession in full swing, Americans are now showing deepening signs of psychiatric and emotional problems due to unabated economic stress.
“Its’ almost like PTSD on a daily installment plan”, says David A. Mayen, director of the Sleep Recovery Centers in Manhattan Beach, Ca. “People are coming to us with jobs and savings intact but are traumatized by the very idea that they may still lose everything, no matter how hard they work. They can’t sleep and are having pretty severe anxiety and panic attacks”. According to Mayen, the assistance for generalized anxiety and panic is medically limited. They’re family doctors mean well, but other than prescribing anti-anxiety medications like Xanax for stress and Ambien for sleep, they don’t know what else to do for these patients. And once a person stops taking the medications, the symptoms can return worse than before.
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