As James B. Maas, a Cornell University psychologist and leading sleep researcher, has observed, most teenagers are "walking zombies" because they get far too little sleep.
"I think it's really a landmark study," said Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, a leading sleep researcher and chief of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
With the global economy now taking more executives to far-flung places like Beijing and Mumbai, jet lag is becoming a bigger aggravation, leading sleep researchers to work harder than ever to find suitable remedies.
But going to sleep isn't always a simple process, and it seems to have grown more problematic in recent years, as I learned through a series of conversations this May, when some of the world's leading sleep experts met with me to share their ongoing research into the nature of sleeping.
Before creating QT33, Lee used SomnoMed, one of the leading sleep apnea oral appliances, on his patients.
Most people, no matter where they live in the world, need about eight hours of sleep to perform at the best of their abilities, said David Dinges, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading sleep researcher in America.
To pull it off, Loop.pH consulted with leading sleep scientist Vikki Revell, PhD, Head of Strategic Development at Surrey Clinical Research Centre.
Another app, Sleepio, was co-developed by Professor Colin Espie, one of the UK's leading sleep experts, as a CBT-based tool to tackle insomnia.
OSA is defined as repeated episodes of obstructive apnea and/or hypopnea during sleep, leading to sleep disruption [1].
This encourages a disturbance in sleep patterns leading to sleep during the day [ 29- 31] and a reduction in sleep at night as well as general sleep fragmentation, with a reduction in both slow wave sleep and REM sleep.
