A Night at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center
Last week host Scott Shafer visited the Stanford Center for Sleep Medicine in Redwood City, where people with sleep issues go to learn more about the quality and quantity of sleep they get. Shafer slapped on 28 electrodes and spent the night there to see how well he sleeps.
Treating Sleep Issues: What Really Works?
Whether it's medication or meditation, people with sleep problems will try almost anything to get some shut eye -- but what really works? We spoke with Michelle Primeau, a psychiatrist who specializes in insomnia at Stanford's Sleep Disorders Clinic, and Dr. Rafael Pelayo with the Stanford Center for Sleep Medicine in Redwood City.
What's Your Story? Night-Shift Trucker Carlos Fernandez
Carlos Fernandez lives in Woodlake, a small town in California's Central Valley. Now 68, he's spent the last four decades as a night-shift truck driver, hauling cement from Fresno to Victorville. As part of our occasional series "What's Your Story?" we hear from Fernandez about some tricks he uses to stay awake -- or catch some sleep -- while he's on the road.
An Artist Inspired by Insomnia
Jean Paul Garnier struggles with chronic insomnia, but the Los Angeles musician and sound artist has learned to make it work for him. He creates abstract electronic soundscapes rooted in his own study of sleep. One of them is an eight-hour, work-in-progress he calls a "Sleep Map."
Confessions of a Sleepless Mom
People don't exactly relish sleepless nights, especially when someone else is waking them up. The California Report's Central Valley Bureau Chief Sasha Khokha says she hasn't had a solid, uninterrupted night of sleep since her first child was born three years ago.