People often ask how I started in sleep medicine. And it’s quite an interesting journey… I knew I wanted to go into neurology and psychology, and whilst I was doing one of my degrees I got this amazing experience to go to Harvard Medical School. We had a sleep lab there and carried out studies…
How do I get back to sleep?
What’s the trick to get back to sleep in the middle of the night? This is a question that people are expecting me to easily answer as a sleep clinician. But actually, it requires a more complicated answer than expected… If this is happening to you over and over again, it means you have a…
Quantity vs quality of sleep
Is it quantity or quality of sleep that’s important? I often get GP referrals and the letters will say something like, “John has had three hours of sleep”. There’s a real emphasis on the quantity of sleep the patient is getting and whether I can improve it. Actually, I try to get people to understand…