One of the most common pitfalls I find myself falling into is letting my daughter’s bedtime shift later and later. It’s partly because of my own tendency as a night owl to drift later but also partly due to the dramatic changes in the light dark cycle that occur in...
Night Shift mode is a built-in software on iOS and macOS which shifts the color temperature of the display towards the yellowish part of the color spectrum. It claims to filter blue wavelengths from the display but does it actually work? An article in press set to be...
We know that poor sleep disproportionately affects gender minorities and there is a deficiency in research on sleep in gender minority populations but in particular in transgender and non-binary populations. If you were to conduct a literature search on pubmed today...
I came across a very interesting journal article published in Nature about pets and sleep. I wanted to share the results because I think this is a very important topic that affects many of us!! The title of the study is “Association between pet ownership and sleep in...
A 16 year old adolescent girl (let’s call her Jane) came to see me with her mother. The primary concern was daytime sleepiness. Jane was falling asleep in class and sleeping all day on the weekends. Jane’s mother was concerned she might have narcolepsy. Jane was...
A thin 28-year-old man came to see me after he suddenly woke up one night gasping for air. From that point on he had not been able to sleep more than one hour stretches at a time. He was miserable, exhausted, and hopeless. A few weeks after that event he had sudden...
