Title: World Federation of Sleep Research Societies

URL: http://www.wfsrs.org/newsletter.html

Notes: Links to their WFSRS member societies can be found at:

http://www.wfsrs.org/1membersorgs.html

Australian

http://www.wfsrs.org/iasa.html

Asian

http://www.wfsrs.org/iasrs.html\

Canadian: The Canadian Sleep Society (CSS) / Société Canadienne du Sommeil (SCS) is a professional association of clinicians, scientists and technologists formed in June 1986 to further the advancement and understanding of sleep and its disorders through scientific study and public awareness.

http://www.css.to/

European Sleep Research Society

http://www.esrs.org/

Latin American Sleep Society

http://www.wfsrs.org/ilass.html

Sleep Research Society [U.S.]

http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/SRS/

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Title: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute web sitte serves the health information distribution for the NCSDR.

To contact them directly, write or phone:

U.S. National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Two Rockledge Centre, Suite 7024
6701 Rockledge Drive (MSC 7920)
Bethesda, MD 20892
301-435-0199

URL: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/nhlbi.htm

Permission: Public domain. James Kiley, Director.

TITLE:Sleep Disorders Information and Research

TOPIC: Sleep Research, Sleep Disorders information pamphlets and pages available from the U.S. government. Both the patient and the professional pamphlets are helpful for the other, so please check both lists, which are NOT repetitive.

URL:For Patients and general Public

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/index.htm

For Health care professionals:

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/sleep/index.htm

National Sleep Disorders Research Plan, Jan. 1996 plan. (currently onine at Aug. 15, 1999)

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/sleep/reschpln.txt

NOTES: Part of overall site Included a Sleep IQ test formerly located at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/sleep/gp/sleep_iq.htm but which doesn't seem to be on the new NHLBI site. I've written to webmaster to look for new location. Test Your Sleep I.Q. NIH Publication No. 96-379 Oct. 1996 This true-false quiz tests what you know about sleep. Questions cover topics on snoring, narcolepsy, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, and other issues. 2 pages.

Permission: Public Domain. Write for more info. mm81o@nih.gov (NHLBI Web Coordinator: the NCSDR is part of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)

NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION:
To send your comments, product orders, questions or donations, contact the National Sleep Foundation by E-mail: natsleep@erols.com Contributions to the National Sleep Foundation are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law. National Sleep Foundation 729 Fifteenth Street, NW, Fourth Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005

permission: Granted,see Permissions page.

They have the Sleep IQ page active as well. "In a 1999 nationwide survey, 83% of adult Americans failed the NSF Sleep IQ Test. The average person gave fewer than 6 correct responses. Find out your sleep IQ" by taking their interactive quiz (complete with answers.)

URL: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/

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Title: German Sleep Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin DGSM)

URL: http://www.uni-marburg.de/sleep/dgsm/welcome_.html

TITLE: Sleep Home Pages

TOPIC: Sleep, all aspects

URL: http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/

NOTES:

PERMISSION:

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TITLE: The Sleep Medicine Home Page

TOPIC: General, Medicine, Disorders, Research, Discussion Groups

URL:http://www.users.cloud9.net/~thorpy/
NOTES:

Lots of Great Links

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TITLE: The Bibliographic Electronic Databases of Sleep (BEDS)

TOPIC: General

URL: http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/htdocs/select1.html

NOTES:

Lots of good sleep-related articles

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TITLE: Sleepnet

TOPIC: General & Comprehensive

URL: http://www.sleepnet.com

NOTES:EXTEMELY useful site, and extensive forums there, also. Sections include: Sleep Disorders, Links, Sleep Debt, Research Links, Dream Links, Professional Org., Sleep Labs, Snooze Paper], Support Groups ,"Everything you wanted to know about sleep disorders but were too tired to ask."

Permission:

Permission to link granted in email, Aug. 12, 1999, by Roy Smith, "Sandman" <sandman@sleepnet.com>

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TITLE:sSleep Well" web site by Stanford professor, Dr. William C. Dement,sleep researcher and director of the Stanford University Disorders Clinic and Laboratory and link to a Sleep Disorders Web ringSleep

TOPIC: Sleep, all aspects, including research.

URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/index.html

NOTES:

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TITLE: "Sleep, Dreams, and Wakefulness" (English)

"Le Sommeil, les rêves, et l'éveil" (French)

Front page is in Eng. about French sleep group. Much of the information is in English. Forums in both languages.

http://ura1195-6.univ-lyon1.fr/main_e.html

TOPIC: A good multilangual source including informative articles about the sciences of sleeping and dreaming.

URL: http://sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr/index_e.html (ENGLISH)

http://sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr/index_f.html (FRENCH)

NOTES: EXTENSIVE! Excellent, Bilingual; Extensive forums; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL database of research

French-Sleep research, University of Lyon, Claude Bernard University - LYON 1 Department of Experimental Medicine

69373 Lyon Cedex 08 - France Secretary: secretariat@sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr

This server is done by Bruno Barbagli, Pierre-Hervé Luppi and Alain Nicolas.

TITLE: "Biotiming tutorial."

TITLE: "Pain and Sleep"

TOPIC: Pain, Insomnia, Deprivation, Fatigue, Getting to Sleep, Medications

URL:http://www.healthtouch.com/level1/leaflets/SLEEP/SLEEP038.htm

NOTES: the National Sleep Foundation, On the Healthtouch system of Medial Strategies, Inc.

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TITLE: "Melatonin Reduces Amount of Deep Sleep"

TOPIC: Drugs, Medications, Melatonin, Getting to Sleep

URL: http://www.win.net/~quanta/css/qreport/july97-05.htm

Notes:Article from the July-August 1997 QDI [Quanta Dynamics Institute] Report On Sleep and Stress, a Publication of The Center for Sleep and Stress on the Web

Permission: chris@quanta.win.net ... see snooze lose article

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TITLE: Back Injury Prevention

TOPIC: Beds, posture, back, pain

URL: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/docs/as32900.html (English)

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/docs/as33000.html (Spanish)

NOTES:This page includes suggestions on sleep posture to prevent back injury.

Permission: Public domain

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TITLE: Sleep (InteliHealth)
TOPICS: Beds, Mattresses, Tips, Exercise, Infants, Bruxism
NOTES: This site contains several informative pages including: Bedding (mattresses, blankets, and beds, Sleep Accessories (pillows, alarm clocks, etc.), Better Sleep through Exercise, Sleeping Advice, Bruxism, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
InteliHealth, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA- information.
Permission: Granted, see permissions page.

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TITLE: Should I Let My Baby Sleep with Me?

TOPIC: beds, infants, parents

URL: http://www.awareparenting.com/sleep.htm

NOTES:by Aletha Solter, Ph.D. Aware Parenting Institute

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TITLE: In Pursuit of Sleep

URL: http://www.pathfinder.com/ParentTime/Growing/todpursslee.html#top

NOTES:
" A peaceful bedtime. An uninterrupted night’s sleep. Sound like a dream? These snooze strategies really work." by Paula Spencer PARENTING magazine, ParentTime

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TITLE: Snooze Alarm How to coax a wailing baby into a sound sleep.

URL: http://www.pathfinder.com/ParentTime/Growing/snooze.html

NOTES: by Laura Flynn McCarthy PARENTING magazine, ParentTime

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TITLE: "Mary A. Carskadon"

TOPICS: Professor who researches: Circadian Rythms

URL: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Psychology/faculty/carskadn.html

Notes:

Dr. Carskadon, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University School of Medicine and Director of Chronobiology and Sleep Research at E.P. Bradley Hospital, has done extensive research relating with sleep, especially sleep patterns in children and adolescents.

Permission: Mary_Carskadon@brown.edu

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TITLE: "Some Schools Agree to Let Sleeping Teens Lie"

TOPIC: Children, Teens, Adolescents, School, Circadian Rhythms

URL: http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_276/no_11/mn6159.htm

NOTES:JAMA - Medical News & Perspectives - September 18, 1996

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TITLE: "Q&A with Mary A. Carskadon; A prominent sleep researcher says staying awake may be overrated"

TOPIC: Children, Teens, Adolescents, School, Circadian rhythms, How much, about, deprivation

URL: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/96/12-95/elms/qa.html

NOTES:Elms, Brown U. Alumni Magazine Interview by Jennifer Sutton

Permission: See permissions page.

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TITLE: School Start Time Study Final Report Summary

TOPIC: Children, Teens, Adolescents, School, Circadian Rhythms

URL: http://carei.coled.umn.edu/Programs/time/start_time/default.html

NOTES: Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI)

College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota School Start Time Study: Final Report Summary

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TITLE: Wide Awake in America: A Campaign to Ring the First Bell When Students Are Ready to Learn
TOPIC:Children, Teens, Adolescents, School, Circadian rhythms

URL: http://www.mavia.org/wideawake.htm

NOTES:Article about the starting times of schools.

Permission: request sent

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TITLE: Advice Column: Sleep Issues and The Family Bed

TOPIC: FAQ, parenting, child, baby, bed, bedtime, nap, infant, adolescent

URL: http://www.nurturing.ca/advice.htm

and http://www.nurturing.ca/nightimenurturing.htm

NOTES: Deals with issues such as naps, getting your child to sleep, keeping your child in bed, and letting your child sleep with you.

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TITLE: Treatment of Sleep Disorders of Older People

TOPIC: Elders

URL: http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/078/078_statement.htm\
NOTES:

National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement March 26-28, 1990

The Treatment of Sleep Disorders of Older People.

NIH Consensus Statement Online 1990 Mar 26-28 [cited 1999 March 12];8(3):1-2

Permission:Public domain.

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Title: Central American sleeping sickness? Chagas -d isease

URL:http://www.cdc.gov:80/ncidod/dpd/chagas.htm

Permission: public domain. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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TITLE: "Insomnia"

TOPIC: insomnia

URL:http://www.bewell.com/hic/insomnia/

NOTES: Developed by Clinical Reference Systems, LtdbeWELL.com is owned and operated by HealthGate® Data Corp. ...its main website is at http://www.healthgate.com.

Permission:

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TITLE: Counting sheep: Sick & Tired: Surfing yourself to sleep

TOPIC: Sleep disorders, insomnia, cfs, etc.

URL:http://www.bc.sympatico.ca/Contents/Health/HEALTHYWAY/feature_sle3.html

NOTES:Information on insomnia, narcolepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, and links to other info.

Sympatico, HealtyWay magazine, Feb. 1997

MediaLinx Interactive, Limited Partnership.

Permission: customer_service@bc.sympatico.ca or webmaster@bc.sympatico.ca

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TITLE: How sleep deprivation affects psychological variables related to college students' cognitive performance.

URL: http://www.websciences.org/cftemplate/NAPS/indiv.cfm?ID=19980251

NOTES:by PILCHER JJ, WALTERS AS. Department of Psychology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, USA Journal of American College Health 1997

Permission:

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Title: Naval Health Research Center: NHRC Sleep and Sleep Deprivation Studies Publications

URL: http://mac088.nhrc.navy.mil/Pubs/Subject/48.html

Permission: public domain

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TITLE: 1997 COMMON CAUSES OF EXCESSIVE DAYTIME SLEEPINESS

TOPIC: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Deprivation, Fatigue, Disorders, Narcolepsy, Sleep Apnea, Restless Leg Syndrome, Shift Work

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/PressArchives/CommonCauses.html

NOTES: NSF Press release Information on Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Narcolepsy, Sleep Apnea, Restless Leg Syndrome, and ShiftWork

Permission: National Sleep Foundation natsleep@erols.com

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TITLE: "One in Three Americans Report Significant Daytime Sleepiness in New National Sleep Foundation Survey"

TOPIC: Sleepiness, Fatigue, Deprivation,

URL: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/PressArchives/LeadPressRelease.html

NOTES:

NSF WASHINGTON, DC, JUNE 3, 1997 Press release

Permission: Permission National Sleep Foundation natsleep@erols.com

 

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TITLE: "NIOSH Suggests Aprroaches on Shigtwork to Reduce Worker Fatigue, Stress"

TOPIC: ShiftworkOccupational safety and Health info

URL: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/shift.html

NOTES:

National Institute forOccupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Update, Nov. 4, 1997

Permission: CDC/ NIOSH - PUBLIC DOMAIN

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TITLE: New Survey Shows Sleeplessness and Pain Taking Toll on U.S. Workforce

TOPIC: Shiftwork

URL: http://members.tripod.com/~sleephealth/indus1.html

NOTES March 27, 1997 Columbus Community Hospital Regional Sleep Disorders Center

Permission:

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TITLE: University of Southern Mississippi Sleep Start Questionnaire

TOPIC:
URL:http://www-psy.ep.usm.edu/cgi-win/ssq14.exe
NOTES:
PERMISSION: harsh@sunusm1.ep.usm.edu USM Sleep Laboratory

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TITLE: "Sleep Disorders"

TOPIC disorders, insomnia, infants, aging, elderly, sleep apnea, drugs, medications

URL: http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/sleep.htm

NOTES:NIH consensus statements on sleep disorders aged; sleep apnea -infants, and Drugs and Insomnia.

Permission: Public domain

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TITLE:Sleep Disorders Center at Newark Beth Israel

TOPIC:

URL: http://njsleephelp.com

NOTES:
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TITLE: Dept. of Neurology, University of Michigan Health System Sleep Disorders Center

TOPIC:

URL: http://www.med.umich.edu/neuro/clinics/sleepdis.htm

NOTES:
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Title: Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board Research Subcommittee Meeting Summary Sept. 29, 1998

URL: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/meet/sdrb/reschs98.htm

Notes: NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTENATIONAL CENTER ON SLEEP DISORDERS RESEARCH

They look at what Federal research in U.S. has been and should be in the future.

Permission: Public domain.

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TITLE: Yale Center for Sleep Disorders

TOPIC:
URL: http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/sleep/body_index.html

NOTES:

PERMISSION: sleep.disorders@yale.edu

TITLE:MY FIBROMYALGIA & CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME HOME PAGE

TOPIC: URL: http://www.fms-help.com/

NOTES: Stories & Great Tips for CFS, FMS, and insomnia sufferers
PERMISSION:

TITLE: PergolideMay Help People With Restless Leg Syndrome

TOPIC:
URL:http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/d57ea.htm
NOTES:
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TITLE: Sleep Apnea

Topic: sleep apnea

URL: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/healinfo/disorder/sleep/sleep.htm

NOTES:National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892; Written June 1996

Permission: Public domain

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TITLE: PEDIATRIC OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA

TOPIC: children, adolescants, sleep apnea

URL: http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/oto/grand/121996.html

NOTES:Ronald B. Kuppersmith, M.D. These documents were prepared by

resident physicians for presentation and discussion at a conference held at The

Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

PERMISSION: ® Copyright, 1995-7. All Rights Reserved; Baylor College of Medicine. Bobby R. Alford Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences.

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TITLE: SLEEP APNEA, SNORING AND BREATHING PROBLEMS IN SLEEP

TOPIC:URL: http://members.tripod.com/~sleephealth/10sa.html

NOTES: :© 1998 COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HOSPITALREGIONAL SLEEP DISORDERS CENTER Accredited by the American Sleep Disorders Association. Robert W. Clark, M.D., Medical Director

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TITLE: Infantile Apnea and Home Monitoring

URL: http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/058/058_statement.htm

NOTES:Infantile Apnea and Home Monitoring. NIH Consens

Statement Online 1986 Sep 29-Oct 1 [cited 1999 March 12];6(6):1-10.

PERMISSION: Public domain.

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TITLE: SNORE--S.N.O.R.E. Sleep apNoea / apNea Online Resource for Education Information on sleep apnoea

Topic: (sleep apnea) sometimes spelled apnoea

URL: http://www.newtechpub.com/phantom/snore/snoring.htm

NOTES: presented by Doug Linder

PERMISSION: In reviews or articles based on "fair use" of this copyrighted material, please reference as your source: New Technology; Publishing, Inc., http://www.newtechpub.com

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TITLE: Childhood snoring: When is it serious?

URL: http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9512/htm/snoring.htm

NOTES:Mayo Clinic Health Oasis

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TITLE: S.N.O.R.E. Sleep apNoea/apNea Online Resource for Education the Wonders

of Snoring

URL: http://www.newtechpub.com/phantom/snore/snoring.htm

NOTES:

PERMISSION: In reviews or articles based on "fair use" of this copyrighted material, please reference as your source: New Technology; Publishing, Inc., http://www.newtechpub.com

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TITLE: Snoring article

TOPIC:
URL: http://www.bewell.com/hic/sleep_apnea/

NOTES: 1997, on Allergy learning lab, by Bewell.com

by Dee Ann DeRoin, M.D., for Clinical Reference Systems.

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TITLE: Clinton Administration Announces Expanded Back to Sleep Campaign: Tipper Gore to Lead New Effort

TOPIC: SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, baby

URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/1997pres/970320.html

NOTES:

PERMISSION: Public domain

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TITLE:TIPPER GORE ALERTS PARENTS ABOUT INCREASED SIDS INCIDENCE DURING COLD WINTER WEATHER

TOPIC:

URL:http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/1997pres/971030c.html

NOTES:
PERMISSION: Public domain

TITLE: USM SLEEP RESEARCH LAB

TOPIC: Academic, sleep research

URL:http://www-psy.ep.usm.edu

NOTES:University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

online surveys, research descriptions

PERMISSION:

TITLE: University of Rochester: Sleep Research Laboratory & Depression Research
TOPIC: insomnia, sleep lab, research study, college
URL:http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/Psych/SRL/index.htm
NOTES:

PERMISSION:

Title: Association of Polysomnographic Technologists

URL: http://www.aptweb.org/

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Title: Sleep study center:Capitol sleep lab page Dr. Peter G. Bernad, Fairfax Medical Center 10721 Main Street, Suite 200

Fairfax, Virginia 22030

URL: http://www.neuro-doc.com/english/sleep/index.html

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Does Napping count?

Napping--in U.VA tutorial

http://www.cbt.virginia.edu//tutorial/SLEEPWAKE2.html

 

TITLE:Seep Disorders Information and Research

TOPIC: Sleep Research, Sleep Disorders information pamphlets and pages available from the U.S. government. Both the patient and the professional pamphlets are helpful for the other, so please check both lists, which are NOT repetitive.

URL:For Patients and general Public

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/index.htm

For Health care professionals:

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/sleep/index.htm

National Sleep Disorders Research Plan, Jan. 1996 plan. (currently onine at Aug. 15, 1999)

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/sleep/reschpln.txt

NOTES: Part of overall site Included a Sleep IQ test formerly located at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/sleep/gp/sleep_iq.htm but which doesn't seem to be on the new NHLBI site. I've written to webmaster to look for new location. Test Your Sleep I.Q. NIH Publication No. 96-379 Oct. 1996 This true-false quiz tests what you know about sleep. Questions cover topics on snoring, narcolepsy, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, and other issues. 2 pages.

Permission: Public Domain. Write for more info. mm81o@nih.gov (NHLBI Web Coordinator: the NCSDR is part of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)

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Newcastle Sleep Disorders Centre

Newcastle Sleep Disorders Centre Discipline of Medicine, University of Newcastle Dept. Respiratory Medicine, Hunter Area Health Service Royal Newcastle Hospital 1st Floor, McCaffrey Wing, PO Box 664J, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia Warners Bay Private Hospital Fairfax Rd, Warners Bay NSW 2282, Australia mdaa@alinga.newcastle.edu.au

The Newcastle Sleep Disorders Centre Web Site. The Sleep Disorders Centre consists of a Sleep Investigation Unit at both the Royal Newcastle Hospital and Warners Bay Private Hospital

TOPIC: Sleep disorder information from Australia

URL: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/md/sleep/disorder.htm

Note: The following are some of their special pages:

NOTE: what happens to patient in their lab

URL: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/md/sleep/sstudy.htm

NOTE: Main Center information

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/md/sleep/index.html

Topic: The American Sleep Apnea Association, 1424 K Street NW Suite 302

Washington, DC 20005 asaa@nicom.com (Include your phone # and mail address in email, they ask)

URL: http://www.sleepapnea.org

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Topic: Sleep Technologists Course

URL: http://www.med.usyd.edu.au/respmed/stc/peopl198.html

Notes: Sydney University Autumn 1998

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Title: Sleep research online.

Topic: Sleep Research in Cyberspace Publication of peer-reviewed scientific articles within a month of their submission is the aim of a new electronic journal, Sleep Research Online (SRO).

URL: www.sro.org/

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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/sc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990414/sc/science_clock_1.html

Wednesday April 14 2:12 PM ET

TITLE:Proteins Control Tick-Tock Of Natural Body Clock

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gmader@millcomm.com

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/sleep/journal/PR10.html

YOUNG DOCTORS OFTEN ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, SURVEY SHOWS

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TITLE: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

URL:http://users.aol.com/fedprac/08apnea.htm

Richard E. Waldhorn, MD

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Title: Yawns, etc.

URL: http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/lwa046.html

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Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia (Part 3): The Brain/Sleep Connection (C)1995 Leon Chaitow N.D., D.O., MRO Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster

http://www.healthy.net/hwlibraryarticles/chaitow/fibromy/fibro3.htm

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TITLE: Brain basics: understanding sleep; National Institute of Neurological disorders and Stroke

URL:http://www.ninds.nih.gov/patients/disorder/sleep/brain%2Dbasics%2Dsleep.htm

Notes: Too bad we found this site the last week of our work instead of the first. They have used a lot of "our" info. :-)

This looks like a very good, yet more succinct site.

Permission: Public domain.

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Topic: Committees, Meetings, Events--Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes ofHealth, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

NATIONAL CENTER ON SLEEP DISORDERS RESEARCH

Notes; Roster: Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board ; Minutes: Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board, 3/17/99;Education Subcommittee Meeting Summaries, 9/29/98; Research Subcommittee Meeting Summaries, 9/29/98

URL:http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/sdrab/index.htm

All theU.S. Federal board Members are listed on the Roster at this specific page.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/sdrab/sleepros.htm

Permission: Public domain.

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http://sleepmedicine.org/

National School of Sleep Medicine,

The National School of Sleep Medicine Medical Director -- Sudhansu Chokroverty, MD, Board Certified Neurologist, 231 Springside Dr. Suite #170 Akron, Ohio. 44210 Administrative Director: Darryl Domenick, yasl@aol.com Technical Director:Fairlawn OH training facility -0 gives short courses for technicians, and includes some curriculum info.-- has sleep calendar for professional conferences as well as training opportunities and project offering Online courses in the future.

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TITLE: The World's Sleep Researchers

TOPIC: Sleep lab, research

URL: http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/map/world.map.html

NOTES: Worldwide sleep labs

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Topic: Page by Professor Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Centre of the

Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, United Kingdom,

also edits the international journal: 'Journal of Sleep Research,'

The research lab's web site includes pictures and abstracts about their sleep research.

URL: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/sleep/index.htm

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Title: Bibliosleep, UCLA Brain Information Service

Notes: Bibliography, searchable, 1992-98; most have abstracts

URL: http://www.websciences.org/bibliosleep/

Notes: sleep research

NAPS specificallyabstracts current awareness alerting service

http://www.websciences.org/bibliosleep/NAPS/

http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/htdocs/select1.html

Bibliographic Databases of Sleep -BEDS includes the four databases:

BiblioSleep, 10th Annual

APSS Meeting Abstracts, and New Abstracts and Papers in Sleep

(NAPS) Current Week and Archives. . and archives about sleep research

papers.

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Journal of Sleep Research: (two lines here need to be one on web)-

http://www.blackwell-science.com/~cgilib/jnlpage.bin?Journal=jsr&File=jsr&amp;Page=links
*|&amp;d=dmtJHE

http://www.blackwell-science.com/~cgilib/jnlpage.bin?Journal=jsr&File=jsr00801&amp;Page=contents
&amp;Type=detail

Table of contents Mar. 99 is above link. © 1999 Blackwell Science Ltd Journal of Sleep Research is published from Oxford, U.K. contacts. Blackwell Science Ltd Journal Subscriptions P O Box 88 Oxford OX2 0NE, UK e-mail: journals.cs@blacksci.co.uk

TITLE: The use of computers to study the ultradian rhythms of sleep: an abstract.

URL: http://mac088.nhrc.navy.mil/Pubs/Abstract/71/53.html

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TITLE:Neural computers ease sleep disorders: an abstract.

http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/NCTT/edge/ne08/part002/index.htm

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Title: Resting easier: Computers simplify work at sleep disorder clinic, by Norman Kurland

Topic: An article about the (New York State) Capital Region Sleep/Wake Disorders Center Published in the Times Union, Albany, NY, July 16, 1997

Note: This article made similar ones to the observations Emilie had found from technicians and her thoughts at the Bayview MD visit. ; These made at Albany, NY sleep center kurlandn@crisny.org Author's email.

URL: http://crisny.org/users/kurlandn/sleepcenter.html

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Topic: Info for Sleep Lab trainees

URL: http://www.websciences.org/trainee/

Note: The APT. Association of Polysomnographic Technologists. is an international society of professionals who perform an essential role in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. "Our Commitment: Promote and advance the development of the profession through education of its members; Establish a level of competency through its credentialing program; and Provide sleep disorders education and increase awareness to the public and health care professionals. These endeavors ultimately result in the enhancement of health and well-being for our patients." Below is URL for the APT home page.The APT Tech Tips and Tricks section provides an opportunity forpolysomnographic technologists to share tricks and techniques they use in the sleep disorders center.http://www.aptweb.org/techtips.htm

URL: http://www.aptweb.org/index.htm

The Association of Polysomnographic Technologists Lenexa, KS 66214

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Title: Role and Qualifications of Technologists Performing Polysomnography

URL: http://www.asda.org/technologists.htm

Note: Position Paper.Adopted by the Executive Committee of the American Sleep Disorders Association, April 1,1998.

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Title: American Board of Sleep Medicine

URL: http://www.absm.org/

Note: Charlene Wibben, Examination Coordinator, 6301 Bandel Road, Suite 101 Rochester, MN 55901 Fax: (507) 287-6008

E-mail: cwibben@asda.org

NOTE: "The American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM) was established to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards of Sleep Medicine, and issue certificates of special knowledge in Sleep Medicine physicians and PhDs in related fields. "It began within the American sleep Disorders Association (1978) and incorporated separately in 1991."

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Title: Sleep Research Society

URL: http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/SRS/srs_main.htm

Note: "The Sleep Research Society exists to promote understanding of the processes of sleep and its disorders through research, the training of practitioners of research and the dissemination of the fruits of their efforts to the scientific and medical communities as well as the general public.

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Title: American Sleep Disorders Association

URLs: http://www.asda.org/

URL: http://www.asda.org/booklets.htm

Note: Wellness booklets you can order

URL: http://www.asda.org/centers.htm

Note: Accredited sleep disorder centers by state

URL: http://www.asda.org/sitelnks.html

Note: Sleep links

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SCIENCE PROJECT IDEAS

Title:NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE NATIONAL CENTER ON SLEEP DISORDERS RESEARCH Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board Education Subcommittee Meeting Summary September 29, 1998

Note: Sleep Awareness publicity projects could be one form of science project. In a Science Fair, it could be part of behavioral or education aspects of science--the whole awareness/marketing, etc. issue. Look at ideas the Federal government has considered or done.

URL: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/sdrab/educas98.htm

Permission: Public Domain.

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Title:

Note: The University of Virginia has gathered various circadian rhythm projects

for university and high school student experiments or research

http://www.cbt.virginia.edu//tutorial/CLASSACT.html

Permission: Granted, see permissions page, Center for Biological Timing.

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TITLE: "Lucid Dreaming Exercises"

TOPIC: lucid dreams

URL: http://www.metro.net/anvil/lucidex.html

NOTES:

Permission:

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TITLE: "What Are Lucid Dreams?"

URL: http://www.in-search-of.com/frames/events/obe-faq.shtml#What are lucid dreams?

NOTES:

Permission:

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TITLE: When the Animals Sleep Article #641

TOPIC: Animals

URL: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF6/641.html

NOTES:

by Larry Gedney; Alaska Science Forum January 2, 1984

Permission:

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TITLE RE: autopsy findings on animals that have been sleep deprived

TOPIC: Animals, Deprivation

URL: http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/discussions/open.forum/messages/msgs04379.html

Title: UCLA -

URL: http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/

Note: UCLA - comprehensive site devoted to research in sleep

Among the various sections are: *Forums on various subjects related to research and clinical practice, such as the molecular biology of sleep *Links to members of the World Federation of Sleep Research Societies,the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, support organizations, and many other sites related to sleep *A directory of world wide sleep laboratories and clinics *A bibliography of sleep literature, with searchable archives ofliterature and proceedings of annual meetings

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Title: Sleep Medicine Home Page

URL: http://www.users.cloud9.net/~thorpy/sleep.htm

Note: On Aug. 15, 1999, It said it was Last Updated Dec.10, 1998

This home page lists resources regarding all aspects of sleep including,the physiology of sleep, clinical

sleep medicine, sleep research, federal and state information, patient information, and business-related groups. If you have

any additional sleep-related information appropriate for this listing send me information by email. thorpy@aecom.yu.edu

National Sleep Foundation Board Member Michael J. Thorpy, M.D.

Dr. Thorpy is director of theSleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. (info from 1997)

Previous Sleep or Dreams TQ entries

1. A History and Interpretation of Symbolism in Dreams (TQ 1997)

-Team members from Lincroft, NJ, and Copley, OH, and coaches from Mountain View, Ca, USA

The part of their page that seems to be more unique is:"Dreams ...and ... dream interpretation. Research symbolism . "

/11130/data/interpret/symbolism.html

2. Dreams: An Exploration into the Subconscious (TQ 1998)

- Team members and coaches from Albuquerque, N.M., USA

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/17039.html

Notes

"Science of dreams...sleep patterns and disorders. ...personal dream

interpretation by posting ...dream experiences ...a

virtual dreamscape... Sigmund Freud andCarl Jung...

surrealism...dream-inspired poetry and artwork."

3. Dreams & Dreaming (TQ 1997)

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/11189.html

- Team Members and coaches from Kalispell, MT and Altoona, PA, USA

and a coach from Tempe, AZ, USA

Content noes: Dream Recall...Interpretation...Dream Journal...Dream Chat..Lucid Dreaming.

4. SleepQuest (TQ 1997)

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/14059.html

- Team members and coaches from Dix Hills, N.Y.

"Sleep problems, naps, circadian rhythms, dreaming, elements affecting

sleep and sleep deprivation."

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Outline of med school coverage, sleep--

http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/medsch/158.html***

Topic: Patient info. on sleep labs

URL: www.institute-dc.org

Notes; specific attachment to their sleep booklet online. public interest group dedicated to bringing current information on a wide variety of topics to the consumers info@institute-dc.org

Getting The Sleep You Need Booklet #: SL950 The Institute, 6100 Pennsylvania Ave,SE, Suite 1010, D.C. 20003

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A Baltimore, MD support group for apnea had its own website.

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/1804/

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Title: Mothers against Violence in America --the group page.

Compelling reasons why MAVIA considers school schedules an important issue.

URL:: http://cgi-user.brown.edu/Administration/BCB/sleep.html

Teens' tour of sleep research lab is an eye openerf 30 students from Providence and 30 teens from Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School to visit the Sleep Research Laboratory April 2 to celebrate National Sleep Day. The lab, on the Butler Hospitalcampus, studies sleep in children and adolescents.

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TITLE: "Too Little, Too Late "

TOPIC:Children, Teens, Adolescents, School, Circadian rhythms
URL: http://www.teachermag.org/ew/vol-15/06sleep.h15

NOTES:

By Millicent Lawton East Providence, R.I.

Permission:

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TITLE: "Sleepless at Stanford"

TOPIC: young adults, teens, adolescents, college, students

URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/sleepless.html

NOTES: Advice and info. on sleep for Freshmen or Undergraduate Students:

Permission:

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Title: ?

Topic:Youth Enhancement Service Conference are to identify the importance of sleep in the lives of adolescents, to examine the behavioral and biological processes that affect adolescent sleep patterns, to assess how sleep (or lack thereof) affects behavior, and to evaluate whether cultural factors may influence adolescent sleep behavior. Participants represent the leaders in the field, both nationally and internationally.

URL: http://www.yes.ucla.edu/pubs2.html

Notes: Detailed conference abstracts. Monograph

Permission: email letter to Emilie dated: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 From: jenna <jenna@websciences.org>

"Thank you for your inquiry regarding the monograph from the YES conference on adolescent sleep patterns. Unfortunately, this monograph is still at the publisher, and we do not know when we can except to receive the final document. If you are still interested, please check back with us at some point in the future. Thank you, Jenna Miller Youth Enhancement Service"

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TITLE: University of Minnesota School Start Time Study

TOPIC: Circadian rhythms, teens.
URL: http://carei.coled.umn.edu/SST/ssttrtxt2.htm

NOTES: Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI), College of Education and Human Development

PERMISSION:

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Topic: Adolescent Sleep

URL reference to this info: http://www.k-lschools.org/jjms/news.htm

Notes: "For the most up-to-date research on kids' biological clocks, contact the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, 701 Park Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55415-1829."

This county is trying the later starting times for schools.

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Title: Findings presented at "Contemporary Perspectives on Adolescent Sleep," an international symposium chaired by Dr. Mary Carskdon International Symposium

URL: http://www.websciences.org/adolescentsleep.

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Title: Inside Scoop: Wake-Up Call on Kids' Biological Clocks

URL: http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9802/scoop.html

Note: NEA Today, February 1998, Vol. 16, No. 6

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Title:Sleep Pattern And Daytime Functions In Italian Adolescents, by FLAVIA GIANNOTTI

URL: http://www.websciences.org/adolescentsleep/giannotti.htm

Topic: research by FLAVIA CORTESI Center of Pediatric Sleep

Disorders , Dept. Develop. Neurology and Psychiatry

University "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy

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More on Brown U. Adolescents and sleep info.

http://www.websciences.org/adolescentsleep/carskadon.htm

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol23/23GSJ02e.html

Permission: email from Mark Carskadon, see permissions page

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Title: Diagnostic Procedures described: Procedure Name Cardiopulmonary Sleep Study

Topic: EEG research, sleep study

URL:

http://www.bewell.com/dph/chapter/mono/pf007700.shtml#pf007700 Electroencephalography EEG http://www.bewell.com/dph/chapter/mono/ne000200.shtml#ne000200 --

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Sleep Disorder Organizations

American Sleep Disorders Association
1610 14th St. N.W., Suite 300
Rochester, MN 55901
www.asda.org

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TITLE: What is CFS?

TOPIC: chronic fatigue syndrome

URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cfs/cfs_info1.htm

NOTES:A basic intro to CFS

Permission: Public domain.

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TITLE: Fibromyalgia Research: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

URL: http://www.nih.gov/niams/healthinfo/fibromya.htm

NOTES: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Permission: Public domain.

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TITLE: FM Sleep CONFERENCE SUMMARY report

URL: http://www.nih.gov/niams/reports/fibrosho.htm

NOTES:

NIAMS sponsored a scientific workshop that explored recent advances in he neuroscience and endocrinology of fibromyalgia. The workshop focused on chronic pain, neuroendocrinology, and sleep disorders associated with fibromyalgia. (NIH), in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 16 and 17, 1996--- includes whole section on Sleep disorders also some on circadian rhythms. by B.W.

Permission:Public domain.

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Title: Kiddidles
Topic: Lullabies
URL:http://www.kididdles.com
Notes: This site contains the lyrics to many songs-- including lullabies.

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Title: World Federation of Sleep Research Societies

URL: http://www.wfsrs.org/newsletter.html

SLEEP BEAUTIES TEAM LINKS: