Diane Norwood
The Decibel Was Never Built to Measure Sleep Deprivation
When a neighbor-noise dispute escalates far enough to produce an arrest, the news report almost always carries a number. Eighty-two decibels. Ninety.
Mindfulness for Sleep: What It Actually Does When You Can't Turn Your Brain Off
You have probably heard that the point of meditation is to empty your mind, and that a clear mind is a sleeping mind. It is a tidy story.
Sleep Hygiene Starts With the Room: What 40 Lux Actually Does to You
Turn on your bedroom light and glance at it. Somewhere between 100 and 300 lux is hitting your eyes right now — a normal indoor evening.
Sleep Apnea and Depression: Two Explanations for One Bad Year
A man in his fifties has been treated for depression for two years. Two antidepressants, one dose increase, some talk therapy. He is better than he was, but not well.
Sleep Apnea and the Mind: How a Breathing Problem Becomes a Mood Problem
A man sits across from his doctor describing low mood, a fog he can't shake, and a short fuse he doesn't recognize as his own. He gets a prescription for an SSRI.
Watching the Heart Hold Its Breath: What Airway Obstruction Does to Your Pulse
When the upper airway collapses during sleep, the most visible consequence is the one you can hear: the snore that stops, the silence, the gasp. But the quieter consequence happens in the chest.
Augmented Reality Technology Isn't a Headset Problem — It's a Latency Problem
There is a version of the future that has been roughly two years away for about fifteen years. In it, augmented reality technology finally arrives — light glasses, all-day battery, a display you…
The Tiredness You Blamed on Your Schedule Might Be Sleep Apnea
You sleep seven, eight hours. You snore — your partner has mentioned it, maybe with an elbow. You wake up tired anyway, so you blame the obvious things. The deadline week. The kids.
Sleep Apnea, Defined: What the Word Actually Means and How We Decided It Mattered
There is a number sitting underneath the diagnosis of sleep apnea, and most people who get the diagnosis never hear it. The number is five.