But Kathryn Pinkham, a sleep therapist at The Insomnia Clinic in Nottingham, says aiming for an eight-hour sleep target could cause unnecessary stress.
My alarm is set for 7 p.m. My sleep target is 7 hours.
Such "knowledge bombs," as they're called, include a healthy sleep target of seven to nine hours nightly and consuming 96 ounces of water daily.
8 P.M. (HBO) INCEPTION (2010) Leonardo DiCaprio, above, stars as Cobb, a specialist in corporate mental espionage who, using a combination of drugs, wires and other Matrix-y methods, penetrates the minds of his sleeping targets to extract information.
4 30 P.M. (HBO) INCEPTION (2010) Leonardo DiCaprio, below, stars as Cobb, a specialist in corporate mental espionage who, using a combination of drugs, wires and other Matrix-y methods penetrates the minds of his sleeping targets to extract information.
2 50 P.M. (HBO Signature) INCEPTION (2010) Leonardo DiCaprio, above, stars as Cobb, a specialist in corporate mental espionage who, using a combination of drugs, wires and other methods penetrates the minds of his sleeping targets to extract information.
Part of the problem, says François Jenck, a pharmacologist at Actelion Pharmaceuticals in Allschwil, Switzerland, is that common sleep medications target a neurotransmitter called GABA, which is abundant in the brain.
These trials had barely begun when, in February, 2007, Nature Medicine published a paper, "Promotion of Sleep by Targeting the Orexin System in Rats, Dogs and Humans," written by scientists at Actelion, the Swiss pharmaceutical company.
Participants were asked to identify suggestions for future infant safe sleep messages targeted to male caregivers.
Several drugs used to treat insomnia promote sleep by targeting receptors for GABA, a neurotransmitter that dampens neural activity.
The number of sleep questionnaires targeting the pediatric age range has tremendously increased in recent years, and with such explosion in the number of instruments, their heterogeneity has become all the more apparent.
