Ten helpful tips if one of your clients (or you, or your partner) are having trouble with falling asleep. We also offer a CE course taught by a CSPP alum entitled “A Good Night’s Sleep.”

Dear End of Life Practitioner Friends –

Commonweal has set an exploratory tone for us all and as Jennifer clearly stated during our overtime period, that’s not always easy to sit with. It is in that spirit that I offer this online place.

I have no idea what if anything we will do with it, but it can support a lot. I’ll show you a few ideas that I can think of.

Everything that is here is just an idea. The pictures down the left column grab your attention right from the start, don’t they … I found these pics on the web and put this together. We don’t have to do anything like this. It’s just an idea. And if you like the idea but not the specific implementation (eg, I hate my pic or where is my pic … I’m truly sorry — I know I can say this is a draft and all that but it would have better if I’d used a different pic or if I hadn’t missed you because I couldn’t find a pic all that easy. We Can Change Everything. Send me pics. If the idea is right but the pics are wrong — I’ll Fix It!.

So.

Onward, OK?

In a study published today in the Clinical Neuropsychologist (e-publication ahead of print), researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute found differences in the brain development of preschool children with symptoms of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Read the whole article here

An artice in the June, 2011 issue of Sleep helps us understand the impact that different kinds of stress have on sleep architecture.

The results suggest that inescapable trauma is less likely to be recalled even though the cue or trigger continues to evoke stress, one of the puzzling aspects of PTSD survivors, who frequently get triggered by cues before they call recall the trauma.

American troops in Afghanistan are suffering the highest rates of mental health problems since 2005, and morale has deteriorated, the Pentagon said in late May.

Military doctors said the findings were no surprise, given the dramatic increase in fighting, which was at its most intense level during the survey period since officials began battlefield mental health analyses in 2003. The grim statistics illustrated the psychological cost of a campaign that US officials say has reversed the momentum of the insurgency in the war-ravaged country.

Rocky Garrison looks at Maslow’s Hierarchy from the bottom up.

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Here’s a few brief but important comments from Rocky Garrison on getting a good night of healthy, normal sleep

It has long been established that sleep deprivation is associated with an increase in the nucleoside adenosine in the hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with memory function. In an ingenious experiment, it has now been shown that blocking the production or flow of adenosine causes sleep deprived mice to not show the memory impairment effects of sleep deprived mice with normal, untampered with adenosine channels.

“To be able to reverse a particular aspect of sleep-deprivation, such as its effect on memory storage, we really want to understand the molecular pathways and targets,” said Dr. Ted Abel, a professor of biology in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences. “Here, we’ve identified the molecule, the cellular circuit and the brain region by which sleep deprivation affects memory storage.”