So, it's not every patient that I see, but I'd say a good 70% to 80% of the patients when they go to bed it's like a stereo is playing at an 11 or 12….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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 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..

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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….