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Sleep is a warm, peaceful part of our lives unless, like one in five people in the UK, you suffer from a sleep disorder. Then sleep becomes a frightening or ear-splitting or unattainable thing that can push you and your relationships to the brink. A new BBC One series follows several tired and bewildered sufferers, all desperate for a cure, as they undergo treatment in the biggest sleep clinic in the UK.
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Sleep is a warm, peaceful part of our lives unless, like one in five people in the UK, you suffer from a sleep disorder. Then sleep becomes a frightening or ear-splitting or unattainable thing that can push you and your relationships to the brink. A new BBC One series follows several tired and bewildered sufferers, all desperate for a cure, as they undergo treatment in the biggest sleep clinic in the UK.
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A night terror, also known as pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. The subject wakes abruptly from the fourth stage of sleep, with waking usually accompanied by gasping, moaning, or screaming
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Sleep apnea or sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "without breath"), each last long enough so one or more breaths are missed, and occur repeatedly throughout sleep.
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Good sleep is as important for your health as diet and exercise, yet the treatment of sleep disorders has been neglected. Penny Wark visits Britain’s largest sleep clinic to see what is being done to change that
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Waking America to the Importance of Sleep!




