Sleep Information
Information for Non-Medical Professionals
Sleep Medicine Clinics in Canada
Looking for a sleep centre? This list is categorized by province and includes the sleep center's medical director.
Sleep Brochures
Do you or your sleep facility need brochures that are sleep related?
Helpful Information on Sleep Disorders
A resource of links for patients seeking information on sleep disorders.
Ask a Sleep Expert
Here is a list of sleep experts that have agreed to answer your questions. The list is categorized by province.
Canadian Content Books on SLEEP
Looking for Canadian content on sleep.
Sleep Links
Here's a list of some sleep related sites on the internet. This section is categorized - including sleep centers, homecare companies, etc..
Sleep Multimedia
How to succeed? Get more sleep
In this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones: the power of a good night's sleep. Instead of bragging about our sleep deficits, she urges us to shut our eyes and see the big picture: We can sleep our way to increased productivity and happiness -- and smarter decision-making.Go to www.ted.com to see her talk, and others, or click below.
Our natural sleep cycle
Jessica Gamble, who hails from northern Canada, explains the importance of listening to our internal clock and the possible implications it has on our sleep quality, daytime functioning in moden-day life.Sleep in the News
CBC News
Untreated insomnia risks other health woes
Published January 20, 2012 4:31 PM EDT
Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder but it often goes untreated, which increases the risk for anxiety, depression and heart failure, a review concludes.
Doctors and other health-care providers should routinely ask patients about sleep problems, said the paper’s co-author, Charles Morin from Laval University in Quebec City.
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CLICK HERE to see the original article in the Lancet.
The Globe and Mail
Sleep deprivation is a national epidemic. And it's killing us.
Ian Brown
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, May. 13, 2011 4:26PM EDT
Get some sleep. That’s the urgent advice the newly refreshed science of slumber has for North Americans.
Never mind the majority who got less than the recommended eight hours of sleep last night. In April, yet another air-traffic controller – the fifth in as many months – was suspended for falling asleep on the job, leaving a plane circling Reno, Nev., for 16 minutes with no one in the control tower to talk to.
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CLICK HERE to see the Globe's sleep-related story archives.
Supplement to the National Post from MediaPlanet
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Sleep-L Archives
Please click here to view a list of Sleep-L ArchivesAs a member of the CSS/SCS, you are entitled to receive sleep related topics via e-mail. To sign up or to change settings send an email with your request to sleep-l@post.queensu.ca
