What if a substantial proportion of cases are really sleep disorders in disguise?
By VATSAL G. THAKKAR, NewYork Times: April 27, 2013
"We all get less sleep than we used to. The number of adults who reported sleeping fewer than seven hours each night went from some 2 percent in 1960 to more than 35 percent in 2011. Sleep is even more crucial for children, who need delta sleep — the deep, rejuvenating, slow-wave kind — for proper growth and development. Yet today’s youngsters sleep more than an hour less than they did a hundred years ago. And for all ages, contemporary daytime activities — marked by nonstop 14-hour schedules and inescapable melatonin-inhibiting iDevices — often impair sleep. It might just be a coincidence, but this sleep-restricting lifestyle began getting more extreme in the 1990s, the decade with the explosion in A.D.H.D. diagnoses."
Link for full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/diagnosing-the-wrong-deficit.html?_r=2&
This is also a very good post which I really enjoyed reading. It is not every day that I have the possibility to see something like this. AVN Treatment
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your insights.
ReplyDeletehttps://amyandrose.com/pages/health-write-for-us/