9: Get Better Sleep With These Tips Your Brain Will Love

Live an Intentional Life

Not getting enough sleep? Lying awake thinking too much, and wondering if you’ll ever sleep again?

Sleep is SO IMPORTANT, and so I cover my favourite sleep tips in this episode, and what can happen to your cognition and mood when you don’t get enough sleep.

References:

Quote from Prof David Dinges came from: Worley, S. L. (2018). The extraordinary importance of sleep: the detrimental effects of inadequate sleep on health and public safety drive an explosion of sleep research. Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 43(12), 758.

Abdalla, R. N., Ansari, S. A., Hurley, M. C., Attarian, H., Fargen, K. M., Hirsch, J. A., ... & Shaibani, A. (2022). Correlation of call burden and sleep deprivation with physician burnout, driving crashes, and medical errors among US neurointerventionalists. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 43(9), 1286-1291.

Baranwal, N., Phoebe, K. Y., & Siegel, N. S. (2023). Sleep physiology, pathophysiology, and sleep hygiene. Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 77, 59-69.

Krause, A. J., Simon, E. B., Mander, B. A., Greer, S. M., Saletin, J. M., Goldstein-Piekarski, A. N., & Walker, M. P. (2017). The sleep-deprived human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 18(7), 404-418.

Ohayon, M. M., Carskadon, M. A., Guilleminault, C., & Vitiello, M. V. (2004). Meta-analysis of quantitative sleep parameters from childhood to old age in healthy individuals: developing normative sleep values across the human lifespan. Sleep, 27(7), 1255-1273.

Ohayon, M., Wickwire, E. M., Hirshkowitz, M., Albert, S. M., Avidan, A., Daly, F. J., ... & Vitiello, M. V. (2017). National Sleep Foundation's sleep quality recommendations: first report. Sleep health, 3(1), 6-19.

Sabia, S., Fayosse, A., Dumurgier, J., van Hees, V. T., Paquet, C., Sommerlad, A., ... & Singh-Manoux, A. (2021). Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia. Nature communications, 12(1), 2289.

Scullin, M. K., Krueger, M. L., Ballard, H. K., Pruett, N., & Bliwise, D. L. (2018). The effects of bedtime writing on difficulty falling asleep: A polysomnographic study comparing to-do lists and completed activity lists. Journal of experimental psychology: General, 147(1), 139.
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