Sleep Disorders

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Sleep Deprivation: Are chronically tired people at greater health risk?" CQ Researcher 12 Feb. 2010. New research links sleep deprivation to a large number of automobile and other accidents. Moreover, chronically sleep-deprived people are at higher risk for poor memories, mental illnesses, obesity, cardiovascular disease and early death. Yet today's 24/7 culture fights against the human body's biological need for about seven hours of sleep a night. Some people are especially sleep deprived, notably teenagers and late-shift workers such as police officers, nurses and medical residents. Meanwhile, some experts worry that overuse of sleeping medications is becoming a serious problem. Newer medications like Ambien and Lunesta are in some ways “safer” than older drugs, but they also affect brain function and sleep patterns in ways that are still not fully understood. With primary-care doctors now able to prescribe these medications because of their greater apparent safety, more people may get into trouble with sleeping pills.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

ProQuest: SU(sleep or insomnia) AND (therap* or treatment or medic*) - over 5000 full text articles

EBSCOhost: Subject (sleep or insomnia) and (health or physiolog* or stress) - 1700+ full text articles

Books

CBC Library Catalog - Subject: Sleep

ebrary subject search: sleep - 6 ebooks, including:
Epstein, Lawrence and Steven Mardon. The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night's Sleep. McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Reference

Gale Virtual Reference - Medical Subcollection: Sleep