So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause..

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep..

Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stag….

So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxi….

So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our slee….

When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep ….

So we go through in the beginning of the night, we go into the really deep stages of sleep and we actually cycle through. So, when you go down to the….

So someone who is a child usually goes to bed about 8:00 or 9:00 at night, but then when they have a circadian rhythm shift, it shifts later. And thi….

I'll work on patient's thoughts about sleep, "So I must get eight hours of sleep tonight or I won't sleep tomorrow." That sometimes - or "I won't fun….

We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natur….

When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't s….

So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number o….

Now narcolepsy is really hard though because they're very tired during the day, they're sleepy during the day and it's managed mostly with medication….

So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep..

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do….

So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So th….

So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see i….

There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we….

We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of….

Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept….

We'll work on relaxation strategies and also changing the times you go to bed will actually make them sleep a little bit less for a few nights so the….