Sleep Disorders
Sleep disorders — from insomnia and sleep apnea to restless legs — affect millions, and here you'll find diagnosis guides, treatment reviews, and research notes.
How Shift Work Disorder Is Diagnosed — and When "Just Push Through" Stops Working
The standard advice for anyone starting night shifts is some version of your body will adjust. Sleep badly for a couple of weeks, the reasoning goes, then your rhythm resets and you're fine.
Sleep Disorders vs. Bad Habits: What the 15-Minute Rule Actually Tells You
There is a number that sleep clinicians carry around in their heads: fifteen minutes. That is roughly how long a healthy adult should take to fall asleep after the lights go out.
Shift Work Disorder Is a Diagnosis, Not a Feeling — Here's How the Line Got Drawn
Most people who work nights assume the exhaustion is just the job. You sleep badly during the day, you're wrecked at 3 a.m., and you tell yourself this is what you signed up for.
Restless Legs Syndrome Is Not a Leg Problem
Here is the claim, stated flatly: Restless Legs Syndrome is not, in any meaningful sense, a disease of the legs. The legs are where you feel it. They are not where it comes from.
I Stopped Calling It Snoring: Living Beside Central Sleep Apnea
The loudest sleep apnea is the easy one. The dangerous one is quiet. That sentence sounds backwards, and for the first month I lived beside it I would have argued with it.
When a Nap Helps and When It Hides Something: Napping With Sleep Disorders
A nap, the headlines like to say, can cut your risk of dying from heart disease by almost a third. There is a real number behind that, and it is more interesting — and more slippery — than the…