Quantity of Sleep vs Quality of Sleep: Why This Is Important

When you’ve had a good night’s sleep, you can definitely tell. You wake up feeling full of energy, refreshed, and you’re ready to begin your day. Sleep is important for […]
Delaying the Bell: The Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Adolescent Sleep

It would be an understatement to say that schools, teachers and students have been under immense stress during COVID-19 – turning on a dime to online learning, experiencing isolation and […]
Sleep Across the Life Cycle and Circadian Rhythms

A fundamental understanding of normal sleep and wakefulness, along with related behavioral and physiologic variables, provides the basis from which sleep disorders in patients of all ages can be identified. […]
Sleep Spindles: The Importance of the CCSH

Credentials are a great tool to set yourself apart-especially when it comes to the sleep field. The CCSH is one that many find helpful in their career because of its […]
How Technology Impacts Care

As medicine advances, the type of care offered to patients changes too. In the sleep lab, technology has improved the way we interact with our patients-allowing us to reach patients […]
How Technology is Impacting Sleep

In today’s world, there are so many sleep devices at our fingertips. From wearables that measure our sleep patterns to apps that track them, it seems as though there are […]
Monthly Musings

Each month, AAST reaches out on our social media pages to ask our fans their opinions on a variety of topics. In this edition of Sleep Spindles, A2Zzz Magazine Associate […]
California Dreaming is Becoming a Reality

With apologies to the mamas and the papas, the above headline is what I wrote on Twitter to my fellow Start School Later associates when I heard that California Gov. […]
Book Review: The Science of Sleep

I first learned about this author through a really helpful episode of Sleep Talk, a podcast produced and aired last February by Drs. Moira Junge and David Cunningham. The focus […]
Workplace Fatigue Meeting Confirms It: We’re Tired at Work, and It’s Costing Us Everything

This article originally appeared in SleepyHeadCENTRAL.com on March 9, 2019. Reprinted by permission of the author. On Feb. 20 and 21, the National Safety Council (NSC) presented its first annual Workplace Fatigue […]