Tag: Dr. Michael Terman
Advertising of Untested, Deficient Sleep Aids: Puhleeze!
A new lamp and a light filter to help you sleep make implausible claims.
Published on March 24, 2014 by Michael Terman, Ph.D. in Chronotherapy In...
Escape the Burden of Switching to Daylight Saving Time!
Our inner clock doesn’t know that the government has rescheduled our lives. It happens every year around this period. Those clock faces with arrows...
Brain Meets LEDs: Everything Old Is New Again
New lighting technology claims major breakthroughs in lamps designed to help get us to sleep, wake up, energize us, and combat depression. While we...
How Is Your Sleep Health?
You’re not complaining, because you’re getting your zzz’s. You feel lucky compared with friends and family who suffer insomnia, apnea, restless legs, nightmares, sweats,...
Indiana: Where It’s Always Later Than You Think!
Waking up into winter darkness is bad enough for mood...
Plugging and Drugging (ADHD, that is…)
Powerful drugs for childhood ADHD have turned into a cash cow for Big Pharma. This has inspired an aggressive initiative to diagnose adults as...
More on the Chronotherapy / Cognitive Therapy Interface
Light therapy — a primary tool of chronotherapy — directly adjusts our body clock into sync with our sleep cycle, with an antidepressant effect...
Depressed, Then Sleepless? Or Vice Versa?
New research addresses this classic chicken-and-egg problem by showing that direct attention to insomnia can speed up relief from depression. read more
Sunrise When You Need It
Michael Terman sits under a broad-field light diffuser. Placed over your bed, it delivers a therapeutic simulation of naturalistic dawn while you sleep. read more
Time Change Disruption—and Countermeasures
What time is it anyway? The clocks on the wall are being shifted back and forth, the sun is rising at a different hour,...