Archive for January, 2009
Stimulus Control
January 27th, 2009 | 
Author: Everyone’s talking about Stimulus these days and whether or not it will work.
In sleep medicine, we have a treatment technique known as Stimulus Control, which refers to the specific plan of not going to bed until you’re sleepy. In other words the way to avoid insomnia is to stay away from the bedroom until you feel genuine sleepiness that will put you fast asleep.
On a lighter side, I wonder whether we need a little Stimulus “Control” in our government. The government imagines that more stimulus will restore the economy, but that’s like telling an insomniac, spend more time in bed and you’ll get more sleep, which actually causes more insomnia. In this case, spending more money is guaranteed to stimulate our debt and deficit, but I think we’re all beginning to wonder just how good that is for the economy.
So, Mr.President, how about a little Stimulus “Control.”
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PTSD Sleep Clinic
March 12, 2010
On Friday March 12th, Maimonides Sleep Arts & Sciences will host an open house for its new PTSD Sleep Clinic from 10 am to 6 pm with presentations and workshops throughout the day. Patients and healthcare providers are invited; and Dr. Barry Krakow will lecture at noon and 6 PM on "PTSD and REM Sleep: Dream Your Way to Better Sleep"
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