Professor Ron Grunstein - Sleep Disorder Specialist

12/11/2023

https://www.drive.com.au/news/video-china-testing-anti-sleep-laser-display-on-highway/

Chinese road authorities are using a unique method of keeping drivers awake during night time travel, but not everyone agrees.

28/04/2023

what you see is not what you get .......

This study assesses the actual measured quantities of melatonin and cannabidiol (CBD) in products marketed and sold in the US as melatonin gummies compared with the quantities declared on their labels.

21/04/2023

Their name has elephant in it but they don't exactly have elephant's short sleep.

Scientists fastened neoprene caps wired with sensors to seals' heads and discovered that they catch 20-minute catnaps underwater when foraging for food.

14/04/2023

Once in a blue moon .....

08/04/2023

Pear owns Somryst formerly Shut-I, a sleep behavioural program. Digital health is a tough gig.

The company struggled to get paid for its FDA-cleared prescription apps to help treat substance use disorder and insomnia.

08/04/2023

Here we have a company that makes a highly caffeinated beverage getting away with this form of medical stupidity and de-facto encouragement for people to sleep deprive themselves and (no surprise) drink RED BULL. Imagine if RED BULL was a regulated drug, what fines and penalties could be imposed? What marketing genius came up with this?

BRIT nominated DJ and producer Regard will host a 24 hour DJ set with Red Bull, from 12pm on 13th April. Hosted at the...

02/04/2023

Clever use of behavioural management for insomnia

01/04/2023

Can you consent to s*x while asleep? See legal discussion towards the end of article.

For s*xual assault complainants like law student Holly, the legal process remains brutal and unsatisfactory. Many argue it’s time for a full rethink.

29/03/2023

A biography of the late Helen Bearpark published recently the Australian Dictionary of Biography by Judith Dwyer

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bearpark-helen-muir-32751

25/03/2023

Amazing career in science

His work helped break down the chemical structures of THC, the psychoactive compound in ma*****na, to figure out how cannabis makes users high.

23/03/2023

Congratulations to Nat Marshall, Garry Cho and Brett Toelle for driving this NHMRC funded project to completion - a massive effort by a large team that showed what collaborative multi-disciplinary research can achieve. It's a world first study under double blind conditions investigating the effects of simulated wind turbine infrasound on humans and with sleep as a primary outcome. Press release below and link to full text here in Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

See https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZJ4ICK1DvKTD2OWp6FMlFYW?domain=ehp.niehs.nih.gov

Important new research finds no evidence for wind turbine syndrome, which some believe impacts those living near wind farms due to infrasound.