My Q and A with Patrick Fuller on How Neuroscience Can Unlock Sleep’s Mysteries

  • Posted in Snoring
  •  By Loran Simon

Sleep PillsPatrick Fuller, a neuroscientist at the Division of Sleep Medicine of Harvard Medical School, shares some insights on the brain’s clock, the importance of sleep and the problem of sleep pills. The circadian clock is the biological clock in the hypothalamus, a small structure within the brain. The function of the hypothalamus is to keep internal body rhythms and systems synchronized to one another and to control the sleep-wake cycle.

People in the world today are over-reliant on sleeping pills to get some sleep and to stay asleep. Even though the sensible use of sleeping pills has helped people with bona fide sleep disorders, other people have abused the pills. The sleeping pills may have deleterious side effects when used without diagnosis and prescription.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/patrick-fuller-sleep_b_6950556.html

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