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		<title>Sleep Need and Sleep Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each individual has a specific daily sleep requirement. This is the amount of sleep that must be obtained each day on the average to avoid becoming sleep deprived. If the needed amount is not obtained, the lost sleep accumulates progressively as a larger and larger sleep indebtedness.
- William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D
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		<title>Sleep Need and Sleep Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each individual has a specific daily sleep requirement. This is the amount of sleep that must be obtained each day on the average to avoid becoming sleep deprived. If the needed amount is not obtained, the lost sleep accumulates progressively as a larger and larger sleep indebtedness.
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		<title>What is America&#8217;s Largest, Deadliest, and Most Costly Health Problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I firmly believe the answer is unhealthy sleep. In my lexicon, unhealthy sleep includes chronic sleep deprivation as well as sleep disorders. Therefore, my answer to the question is pervasive sleep deprivation and undiagnosed and untreated or misdiagnosed and mistreated sleep disorders collectively are American&#8217;s largest, deadliest and most costly health problem.
- William C. Dement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Snoring a Legitimate Medical Concern?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very much so. It is likely that every reader will know someone who snores very loudly. This is the cardinal symptom of the obstructive sleep apnea. While not everyone that snores has obstructive sleep apnea, all snorers do have disordered breathing during sleep, an impairment that has the potential of becoming a serious medical concern.
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		<title>How Common are Sleep Disorders?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very much more common than most people realize is the best answer to this question. The national prevalence has been established for only one specific disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, at 24 percent of adult males and 9 percent of adult females. Restless legs syndrome has been estimated to afflict at least 12 million Americans. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the most serious sleep disorders?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My list includes obstructive sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, chronic insomnia, and the violent parasomnias. Though less common, I also include sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), narcolepsy, and Fatal Familial Insomnia. SIDS manifests as a single catastrophic event and narcolepsy often reaches its full severity in a relatively short time. Fatal Familial insomnia, a genetically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Different Sleep Disorders are there?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep specialists currently diagnose 88 specific disorders, all of which (with two exceptions) were discovered and characterized since 1970 when the world&#8217;s first sleep disorders clinic opened at Stanford. Some are both very common and very serious. Altogether, at least three quarters of all adults have one or more diagnosable sleep disorder. This makes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Can Be Asleep Without Knowing It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is absolutely clear that individuals all fall asleep, wake up, and deny having been asleep. In sleep deprivation situations, there can be microsleeps which subjects deny.
- William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D
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		<title>Can We Get Too Much Sleep?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a fairly common experience of feeling lousy or groggy after an unusually long sleep. To conclude that this is due to &#8220;too much sleep&#8221; is wrong. Sleep is not the culprit. We believe the occasional feeling of grogginess after one night of extended sleep as being the result of a combination of several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep Debt Makes a Sedative a Sedative</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under laboratory conditions, when the sleep debt of laboratory animals is lowered to zero, or very close to zero, such animals can be given enormous doses of conventional sleep medications with no sleep-inducing effect at all. These doses will strongly sedate, and induce sleep in normal animals. In humans, the amount of prior sleep determines [...]]]></description>
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