Archive for June 2010
Acupuncture for Chronic Migraine and Headache
Chronic Migraine and Headache Disorders [singlepic id=132 w=320 h=240 float=right] Nearly 10 million people in the United States suffer from regular migraine headaches; and 40% of people in North America have occasional migraines. On average, 55% of migraine sufferers miss two workdays per month. In addition, 88% of sufferers work more than five days per…
Read MoreWhat Role REM Sleep and Dreaming Play in Mankind
In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological. The brain is warming its circuits, anticipating the sights and sounds and emotions of waking.…
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