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December 12, 2018 in CPAP // Wellness Wednesday: How to wear a CPAP mask when you have a lot of hair
December 8, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Are you prepared for your overnight sleep study?
December 5, 2018 in Alcohol & Sleep // Wellness Wednesday: Addiction and sleep problems: surviving RLS and insomnia while in opiate withdrawal
December 1, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Sleep Fundamentals || Y is for Why Do We Sleep?
November 28, 2018 in 4Ms: Mood, Memory, Mental & Mind // Wellness Wednesday: Brain fluid may be key to autism and sleep problems
November 27, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Product and gift ideas (some DIY) for better sleep: Pinterest
November 21, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Wellness Wednesday: Save your marriage with a sleep divorce
November 14, 2018 in Circadian Rhythms & Sleep Disorders // Wellness Wednesday: The genetics of sleep
November 13, 2018 in How America Sleeps // VitaminZZZ launches NESTING, a creative exploration of the seasonal idea of hygge
November 12, 2018 in How America Sleeps // How America sleeps: Spotlight on Seattle
November 10, 2018 in Books about Sleep // Sleep Fundamentals || X is for Xyrem (sodium oxybate)
November 7, 2018 in Chronic Illness: Cancer // Wellness Wednesday: Sleep can be challenging for people with cancer
November 1, 2018 in Circadian Rhythms & Sleep Disorders // You asked SHC… about preparing for the change to Standard Time
October 31, 2018 in Dreams // Wellness Wednesday: A Halloween treat–“Dream Catchers,” a short animated film
October 24, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Wellness Wednesday: Children’s bedwetting, a problem for both parents and their kids
October 17, 2018 in 4Ms: Mood, Memory, Mental & Mind // Wellness Wednesday: How trauma leads to pain, mental health concerns, and sleep problems
October 14, 2018 in Consumer Sleep Technology (CST) // SLEEP STUFF: SoClean PAP equipment sanitizer
October 10, 2018 in Drugs: Sleep Aids // Wellness Wednesday: Sleepwalking as criminal defense
October 7, 2018 in Babies & Sleep // October is SIDS Awareness Month
October 5, 2018 in Daytime Sleepiness, Hypersomnia & Fatigue // Sleep Fundamentals || W is for Wakefulness
October 3, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Wellness Wednesday: Celebrities with insomnia struggle, too
September 30, 2018 in Drugs: Over the Counter // Sleeping pills: Our Pinterest board takes a look at sleep aids
September 29, 2018 in Literary writing on sleep and dreams // NESTING || Vitamin Zzz anthology seeks literary writing about sleep
September 26, 2018 in Sleep // Wellness Wednesday: This free sleep health conference focuses on women’s sleep health
September 23, 2018 in How America Sleeps // How America sleeps: Spotlight on Indianapolis
September 22, 2018 in Back to School // School start times are still a nationwide debate
September 19, 2018 in Sleep // SHC celebrates 4 years as your dedicated sleep health news and information clearinghouse
September 12, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Wellness Wednesday: Project Sleep free event this Saturday in Boston
September 9, 2018 in 4Ms: Mood, Memory, Mental & Mind // Sleep Fundamentals || V is for Vigilance
September 5, 2018 in Sleep // Wellness Wednesday: “I Can’t Stop Falling Asleep”
September 3, 2018 in Back to School // Teens need sleep: Our Start School Later Pinterest board
September 3, 2018 in Public Health & Safety // REMY sez…
August 29, 2018 in Parasomnia // Wellness Wednesday: The dangers that sleepwalkers face
August 28, 2018 in Sleep // Our Women’s Sleep Health section has been updated
August 22, 2018 in Sleep // Wellness Wednesday: Try this instead of falling asleep to your TV
August 17, 2018 in Literary writing on sleep and dreams // SHC launches MIDSUMMER NIGHTS, devoted to dreams and nightmares
August 15, 2018 in Back to School // Wellness Wednesday: Time to reset the kids’ sleep schedules
August 8, 2018 in Drowsy Driving // Wellness Wednesday: Long-haul trucker Bob Stanton on sleep apnea screening
August 4, 2018 in Literary writing on sleep and dreams // Theme update for Fall 2018: NESTING || The Vitamin Zzz anthology seeks literary writing about sleep
August 1, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Wellness Wednesday: Sleep Tight video game makes fun of the dark
July 28, 2018 in Sleep // Sleep Fundamentals || UARS is for Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome
July 25, 2018 in Circadian Rhythms & Sleep Disorders // Wellness Wednesday: Camping doesn’t mean sleeping in a tree… unless you want it to
July 18, 2018 in How America Sleeps // Wellness Wednesday: Managing the unmet needs of pediatric sleep apnea patients
July 15, 2018 in How America Sleeps // How America sleeps: Spotlight on Phoenix
July 11, 2018 in Circadian Rhythms & Sleep Disorders // Wellness Wednesday: Jet lag app promises to help you manage daytime fatigue on your trips
July 8, 2018 in Insomnia & Sleeplessness // Sleep Fundamentals || T is for the Three P Model (for insomnia)
July 5, 2018 in Dreams // Creative writers: Send us your poems, nonfiction, and stories about midsummer nights this month!
July 4, 2018 in Babies & Sleep // Sleep ahead of the fireworks… Happy Independence Day from SleepyHeadCENTRAL!
July 1, 2018 in Babies & Sleep // Got #SLEEP? We’re looking for sleep products to review
June 27, 2018 in Babies & Sleep // Wellness Wednesday: Video captures some reasons why mothers don’t sleep well

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The SleepyHeadCENTRAL mission is to develop an accessible, accurate, and user-friendly online clearinghouse of sleep information.

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Tamara Kaye Sellman is a registered polysomnographic technologist (RPSGT) and certified clinical sleep health educator (CCSH). She is also a sleep apnea patient and lives with hypersomnia partly caused by multiple sclerosis.

Sellman holds a degree in journalism from Columbia Chicago ('90) and is an independent sleep health journalist.

She currently serves as an independent journalist and blogger working for industry associations. She also generates educational materials for the American Association of Sleep Technologists, writes a weekly column for their blog, and contributes to their educational and content strategy committees. She served as Secretary of the Washington State Sleep Society between 2013-2018.

Among her other journalism efforts are award-winning contributions to publications of the American Association of Sleep Technologists (A2Zzz and the AAST blog).

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• Circadian Sleep Disorders Network (CSDN)
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• Wake Up Narcolepsy
• Washington State Sleep Society (WSSS)

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