A Good Snooze

Even the most loving of marriages can become fraught with tension and arguments when one of the spouses snores. The continuous sawing of logs deprives the other partner of sleep and can cause intense frustration. While many women snore, it’s usually the wife who suffers as many men rattle the windows when they snore, often [...]

Your doctor will diagnose restless legs syndrome (RLS) based on your symptoms, your medical and family histories, and the results from a physical exam and tests.
Your doctor will use this information to rule out other conditions that have symptoms similar to those of RLS.
Specialists Involved
Your primary care doctor usually can diagnose and treat RLS. However, [...]

Insomnia is a condition in which you have trouble falling or staying asleep. Some people with insomnia may fall asleep easily but wake up too soon. Other people may have the opposite problem, or they have trouble with both falling asleep and staying asleep. The end result is poor-quality sleep that doesn’t leave you feeling [...]

Until the 1950s, most people thought of sleep as a passive, dormant part of our daily lives. We now know that our brains are very active during sleep. Moreover, sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are just beginning to understand.
Nerve-signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters control whether [...]

Chronic snoring can dramatically affect both your life and the lives of everyone you live with.
Uninterrupted sleep is necessary to maintain your health and to reduce stress. If your or your partners snoring is continually waking you up, you need to do something now!
If you are overweight, that may be what’s causing your snoring. [...]