One of my areas of expertise within sleep medicine is behavioral sleep medicine. Most of the behavioral sleep medicine experts in the U.S. are psychologists. I am one of a few in Washington State with an M.D. background. Practicing behavioral sleep medicine was...
Intimate and romantic relationships bring happiness and positive emotions to our lives for some time but then are susceptible to hedonic adaptation. What are the best ways to combat hedonic adaptation in marriage/partnerships? One exercise for countering hedonic...
Working hard to achieve is enjoyable. But how do we combat the sensation that we’re in a hamster wheel or on a treadmill with no end point? I learned from my course with Dr. Santos we can practice measures to counter hedonic adaptation. Over the next few weeks I’ll...
A few years ago when I was focusing a lot of my time outside of work on climbing mountains, I thought a lot about a concept called hedonic adaptation. At the time, I wasn’t familiar with the term, but through my adventures and travels I became aware of the idea that...
For the past few years my husband and I have had an ongoing debate about whether our bedroom is dark enough. We live on Puget Sound and there is a lot of light pollution from aircraft, boats, and the moon’s reflection on the water. Til recently we had blinds but not...
Dr. William Dement passed away last year. He was one of the pioneers in the field of sleep medicine. He founded the first sleep clinic in the United States @stanford which is where I trained. Early in his career at the University of Chicago he studied dreams and...
