Allan O'Bryan, Executive Director, World Sleep Society In this podcast, Allan O'Bryan, Executive Director of World Sleep Society tells us about the workings of the association and the brain power behind it. O'Bryan also talks about their upcoming conference in Brazil and World Sleep Day. "World Sleep Society is a non profit, member based association representing clinicians, nurses, technicians healthcare focus in sleep medicine and sleep research, says O'Bryan. Our Board comes from around the world with a mission to advance sleep health worldwide, especially in regions where sleep medicine is ..read more

In this podcast, Megan Soffer, Brand, Digital and Content Marketing Manager of TrueDark, tells the listeners how "TrueDark is a wellness and performance brand leveraging healthier light for healthier living." Soffer talks about the array of products TrueDark offers to help regulate the sleep-wake cycle, also known as your circadian rhythm.  "Circadian rhythms are physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a daily cycle. They respond primarily to light and darkness in an organism's environment." In today's high tech, always on the go environment, we are constantly exposed to arti ..read more

What are some of things we can do to get better sleep as we head into 2020?  How do we make sleep a priority? “It all started with a snoring spouse,” says Nancy Rothstein, of the  The Sleep Ambassador. Rothstein, who’s training, and previously published works had been on finance, began a journey to re-discover one of humanity’s most essential shared needs: sleep. In this podcast, we learn how Rothstein started to see sleep deprivation as something much larger than an inconvenient lost night of sleep. “No one can sleep for you, but you,” says Rothstein, who stresses that not only can ..read more

I was very sick with the flu several years ago and, as I laid in my bed sweating, light hurting my eyes and noise bothering my head, I developed the Deep Sleep Hoodie ..read more

The survey, "How America Sleeps and Wakes," sponsored by Eisai, Inc. explored the impact of insomnia or sleeping difficulties on individual performance, interpersonal relationships and social behaviors. In this exclusive podcast with Dr. Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD, Chief of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University, we discuss the surprising results from the survey and what individuals are looking for in an insomnia treatment or medication. "The survey uncovered that approximately 2/3 of the participants care about how they feel the next day.  They want to wake up refr ..read more

“The conclusion from this study, and other evidence, supported that WAKIX has significantly lower potential for abuse and drug ‘liking’, and that’s what lead to its approval by the FDA and becoming the first and only drug approved by the FDA for patients with narcolepsy that is not scheduled as a controlled substance by the DEA,” says said Harmony’s Chief Medical Officer, Jeffrey Dayno, M.D. In this podcast, recorded live at this week’s Vancouver World Sleep Congress, Dayno discusses WAKIX and the results from a double-blind, active- and placebo-controlled, four-sequence, four-way crossover st ..read more

Find out how the Deep Sleep Hoodie is designed to help you sleep better at home or on the road. In this podcast, Glenn Paradise, Founder, Inventor and former insomniac at Deep Sleepwear, tells us how his product, the Deep Sleep Hoodie, can "change the way the world sleeps" and we hear directly from him the science behind it. Paradise describes the hoodie to the listener and explains how and why it works to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.  Fluctuation in body temperature is one of the biggest disrupts to a good night's sleep.  The Deep Sleep Hoodie uses a wicking m ..read more

In this podcast with Dr. Margaret Moline, Executive Director and International Project Team Lead at Eisai Pharmaceuticals for the lemborexant clinical development program, we hear a first hand explanation about the drug lemborexant, a potential treatment for insomnia, why the need for an additional drug for insomnia and the status of lemborexant new drug application submission. Moline speaks about insomnia as not being about "just one thing."  She explains that, "There are people who have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, and some people have a combination of both.  Whe ..read more

According to Dorenbaum "Balance Therapeutics began their research by conducting a series of interviews with people with IH to see what issues they really wanted us to address and treat.  Many complained about waking up in the morning, day dreaming during the day, and sudden sleepiness." As of today, there are no drugs approved for IH.  As Dorenbaum explains, "many with IH take stimulants that are approved for narcolepsy.  Although stimulants work for a while, they can lose their effectiveness over time and there are other side effects." In this podcast with Dr. Alex Dorenbaum of ..read more

Claire Crisp, Executive Director Wake Up Narcolepsy, Inc. The Sleep Forum is proud to provide media coverage for the Wake Up Narcolepsy Conference in Los Angeles on Saturday, January 19, 2019.   The Conference is an informative one day conference in Pasadena with leading experts in the field of Narcolepsy.  Also attending are other narcolepsy non-profit groups, pharma companies and people with narcolepsy.  Dr. Emmanual Mignot,  a sleep researcher and director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, at Stanford University, is keynote speaker and wil ..read more