do you have a hard time falling or
staying asleep are you waking up feeling
unrefreshed despite having the chance to
sleep adequately is it having a toll on
your daily tasks insomnia sufferers will
feel irritable unenergized with constant
headaches and difficulties staying
focused and remembering things insomnia
will affect your quality of life making
it a constant struggle but what is
insomnia it's a perception or complaint
of inadequate or poor quality sleep due
to a number of factors such as
difficulty falling asleep waking up
frequently during the night with
difficulty returning to sleep waking up
too early in the morning or unrefreshing
sleep this can be caused by various
factors such as stress depression
overthinking medication other illnesses
or just poor sleeping
habits according to the Center for
Disease Control and prevention 50 to 70
million adults in the US suffer from
sleeping
disorders but what happens to the brain
brel Salis and her research team from
John Hopkins identify brain differences
linked to insomnia they report that
people with chronic insomnia show more
plasticity and activity compared to good
sleepers in the motor cortex region of
the brain plasticity is the brain's
ability to adapt and change to different
stimuli and
situations they also found that there's
more accessability among neurons in the
same region of the
brain this suggests that insomniacs are
in a constant state of heightened
information processing that may
interfere with sleep they hope that
their research will help for a better
diagnosis and treatment of
insomnia another research team led by
drum and Matthew Walker used magnetic
resonance imaging or MRI to study how
the lack of concentration during the day
can affect
insomniacs the team found that insomnia
sufferers did not properly turn on brain
regions used for memory tasks and not
turn off the Mind wandering region of
the brain the MRI scans revealed that
insomniacs could not modulate activity
in brain regions used to perform tasks
as a task got harder good sleepers could
use additional resources within the
memory network of the brain while
insomniacs could not use those
additional
resources this study provides measurable
abnormalities in the brain giving
biological markers for few future
diagnosis and treatments researches
previously mentioned provide evidence
that insomnia does infect the brain and
not only that but it interferes with
simple daily tasks although
neuroscientists still don't know the
real reason why insomnia happens current
Studies have provided the pathway for
future research knowing the differences
between a good sleeper's brain and a bad
sleeper brain will make a huge impact
act in future diagnosis and treatments
for
sufferers until then here are some
things you can do to improve your Sleep
Quality one make sure your bedroom is
quiet dark and cool two stick to a
regular sleep schedule this includes the
weekends three avoid naps if you must
limit it to 30 minutes before 3
p.m. four avoid stimulating activity
and stressful situations before
bedtime five don't read from a backl
device six limit the consumption of
caffeine alcohol and
nicotine keep in mind sleeping disorders
can be caused by anxiety depression
medications illnesses Andor poor
sleeping habits among other factors
before considering that you suffer from
insomnia the treatment of these factors
can improve your Sleep Quality thus
improving your day do you suffer from
insomnia if so how does it affect your
daily routine do you have other
suggestions that help improve your sleep
if so comment on the bottom of this page
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