RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Books that have been recommended by others in various forums.
It's Not All in Your Head
How worrying about your health could be making you sick and what you can do about it.
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
A simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to enlightenment and become free of negativity.
Overcoming Functional Neurological Symptoms: A Five Areas Approach
Uses the proven five areas model of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to help people experiencing a range of medically unexplained symptoms.
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
A unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research.
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
A guide to breaking free from anxiety, phobias, and worry using acceptance and commitment therapy.
The Worry Cure
Seven steps to stop worry from stopping you.
SLEEP DISORDER ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
A professional society dedicated exclusively to the medical sub-specialty of sleep medicine. Really for doctors and practitioners, but you might want to make sure if you choose a sleep professional they are a member.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Myoclonus Fact Sheet
Now, don't scare yourself with this information. This relates mostly to people in which it occurs 24 hours. Sleep Myoclonus is only a small portion of the information here.
National Sleep Foundation
A professional organization that also has a lot of good information about sleep disorders and sleep health.
Sleep Education
A sleep health information resource by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
ARTICLES
Research, findings, and information pertaining to sleep disorders that may help advance relief or a cure.
Hypnic Jerks – How To Avoid Waking With A Jolt (No Sleepless Nights blog by Ethan Green / December 20, 2016)
A blog article explaining what they are, what the causes might be, and suggestions from blog readers to prevent them.
Myoclonic Moments: Sleep Myoclonis, A Movement Disorder (Amy J. Austin, Ph.D., Independent Researcher at Austin Independent Research / October 22, 2016)
Why pharmaceutical companies aren't working on medication to specifically address sleep myoclonus.
How muscles are paralyzed during sleep: Finding may suggest new treatments for sleep disorders (July 17, 2012 / Science Daily, Source: University of Toronto, The Journal of Neuroscience)
Two powerful brain chemical systems (GABA and glycine) work together to paralyze skeletal muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, according to new research. The finding may help scientists better understand and treat sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, tooth grinding, and REM sleep behavior disorder.
Propriospinal myoclonus [PSM] at the sleep-wake transition: a new type of parasomnia. (Nov 1, 2001 / US National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health)
First of all, "propriospinal" means distinctively or exclusively spinal. This link is just the abstract. Here are the important parts: Patients were referred for insomnia due to myoclonic activity arising during relaxed wakefulness preceding sleep. Polysomnographic investigations revealed jerks arising during the sleep-wake transition period, and myoclonic activity was neurophysiologically documented to be of the propriospinal type. The conclusion was PSM may have a peculiar relationship with the state of vigilance and represent a sleep-wake transition disorder. In this regard they considered PSM a new type of parasomnia.
Propriospinal myoclonus: Clinical reappraisal and review of literature. (Nov 11, 2014 / US National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health)
Propriospinal myoclonus (PSM) is a rare disorder with repetitive, usually flexor arrhythmic brief jerks of the trunk, hips, and knees in a fixed pattern. It has a presumed generation in the spinal cord and diagnosis depends on characteristic features at polymyography. Recently, a historical paradigm shift took place as PSM has been reported to be a functional (or psychogenic) movement disorder (FMD) in most patients. This review aims to characterize the clinical features, etiology, electrophysiologic features, and treatment outcomes of PSM.
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