Insomnia Literature Review
Insomnia
Insomnia affects almost half of adults living in America. (# 8, 2012) This is a shared sleeping disorder that many people across the universe are diagnosed with. Several causes of insomnia include exercising too much, stress, withdrawal from alcohol or a certain drug, physical circumstances, and diseases. People with insomnia usually have trouble going to sleep or staying asleep, which causes people to have poor-quality sleep, which will affect their mood, energy, and productiveness for the next day. (MediLexicon, Intl., 2012) More symptoms of insomnia include waking up earlier than needed, having trouble falling back asleep, and being in a bad mood the following day. Insomnia can cause many more problems such as weight gain, increase in pain sensitivity, and an increase in a person’s death risk. Although all of these things can be cause by insomnia, just by sleeping an hour or two more per night, people can have many more benefits. These benefits might include increase in alertness, weight loss, and even decreased chance of getting a cruel tumor. Currently scientists and researchers are studying insomnia and discovering more and more about the disorder with each experiment these experts are performing. Researchers at Clemson University executed an experiment on how Insomnia and sleeping problems similar to those of insomnia affect social functioning. Approximately four hundred students were gathered together to help with testing and results have not come back yet. (MediLexicon, Intl., 2012) Another study showed that listening to music could help prevent insomnia. This research used fourteen females and six males. The scientists picked ten people to use the new HIRREM system and other normal aids and the other ten people were to be put in the wait-list control group. (MediLexicon, Intl., 2012) Hundreds of other projects, research, experiments, and studies are going on to find out more about insomnia and how it can be cured or prevented. The
Insomnia affects almost half of adults living in America. (# 8, 2012) This is a shared sleeping disorder that many people across the universe are diagnosed with. Several causes of insomnia include exercising too much, stress, withdrawal from alcohol or a certain drug, physical circumstances, and diseases. People with insomnia usually have trouble going to sleep or staying asleep, which causes people to have poor-quality sleep, which will affect their mood, energy, and productiveness for the next day. (MediLexicon, Intl., 2012) More symptoms of insomnia include waking up earlier than needed, having trouble falling back asleep, and being in a bad mood the following day. Insomnia can cause many more problems such as weight gain, increase in pain sensitivity, and an increase in a person’s death risk. Although all of these things can be cause by insomnia, just by sleeping an hour or two more per night, people can have many more benefits. These benefits might include increase in alertness, weight loss, and even decreased chance of getting a cruel tumor. Currently scientists and researchers are studying insomnia and discovering more and more about the disorder with each experiment these experts are performing. Researchers at Clemson University executed an experiment on how Insomnia and sleeping problems similar to those of insomnia affect social functioning. Approximately four hundred students were gathered together to help with testing and results have not come back yet. (MediLexicon, Intl., 2012) Another study showed that listening to music could help prevent insomnia. This research used fourteen females and six males. The scientists picked ten people to use the new HIRREM system and other normal aids and the other ten people were to be put in the wait-list control group. (MediLexicon, Intl., 2012) Hundreds of other projects, research, experiments, and studies are going on to find out more about insomnia and how it can be cured or prevented. The