by Tess Lawson | Oct 10, 2014 | Anxiety & Insomnia: Learn to Fall Asleep Easily!, Stress
Have you ever wondered WHY you cannot sleep well? A new study finds that sleep deprivation affects facial features such as the eyes, mouth and skin, and these features function as cues of sleep loss to other people. Results show that the faces of sleep-deprived...
by Tess Lawson | Aug 19, 2014 | Anxiety & Insomnia: Learn to Fall Asleep Easily!, Athletes & Artists- NeuroFeedback Improves Your Performance, Neurological Disorders, Stress
Until the 1950s, most people thought of sleep as a passive, dormant part of our daily lives. We now know that our brains are very active during sleep. Moreover, sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are just...
by Tess Lawson | Aug 18, 2014 | Anxiety & Insomnia: Learn to Fall Asleep Easily!, Athletes & Artists- NeuroFeedback Improves Your Performance, Business Owners - NeuroFeedback Improves the Bottomline, Stress
Sleep cycles, REM indicated in red. Sleep progresses in a cyclical fashion through five stages. Four of these stages are collectively referred to asnon-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep whereas the last cycle is a rapid eye movement period. A cycle takes approximately...
by Tess Lawson | Aug 17, 2014 | Anxiety & Insomnia: Learn to Fall Asleep Easily!, Love Relationships - NeuroFeedback increases Intimacy, Stress
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) released is first international poll today, the 2013 International Bedroom Poll, comparing sleep times, attitudes, habits and bedtime routines of those in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan...
by Tess Lawson | Aug 17, 2014 | Anxiety & Insomnia: Learn to Fall Asleep Easily!, Athletes & Artists- NeuroFeedback Improves Your Performance, Business Owners - NeuroFeedback Improves the Bottomline, Stress
Imagine you’re cleaning off your desk. You sort some papers into folders with the relevant labels. Others you red-tag as “urgent” or yellow-tag as “semi-urgent.” Quite a few go directly into the large circular file at your feet, also known as the trash basket. Turns...
by Tess Lawson | Aug 16, 2014 | Anxiety & Insomnia: Learn to Fall Asleep Easily!, Stress, Youth and Anxiety
While young children sleep, connections between the left and the right hemispheres of their brain strengthen, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder. The research team — led by Salome Kurth, a...