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• n  an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness

• A new study suggests that using Web-based therapy can help insomniacs sleep.
• Oddly enough, a lot of the problem of insomnia is lying in bed awake, worrying about it.
• As Jacobs explains in his book Say Goodnight to Insomnia, CBT reintroduces insomnia experts' old tricks: get up at the same time every morning; use your bed for sleep only (sex is .

• hypersomnia

News & Articles

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• Nightcap? Better Not – Binge Drinking Linked To Insomnia In Older Adults
  April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Frequent binge drinking is associated with insomnia symptoms in older adults, a new study from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine finds. The study findings, published in the journal SLEEP , reveal that 26.2 percent of participants had two or less binge drinking days per week on average, while 3.1 percent had more than two days per week ...
  June 11, 2013 - redOrbit
• Binge Drinking Older People Appear Much More Likely to Suffer Insomnia
  June 10, 2013 – If you are a frequent binge drinker, insomnia may not be the worst of your problems but a new study finds that for older people there appears to be a clear link between the two. The researchers found adults ages 55 and older who binged on an average of more than two days a week had an 84 percent greater odds of reporting an insomnia symptom compared to non-binge drinkers.
  June 10, 2013 - Senior Journal
• Book review: 'Insomnia' proves to be an original page-turner (+video)
  Insomnia,the debut novel from Utah author J.R. Johansson, is original and page-turning.
  June 8, 2013 - Deseret News

Quotes

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• Michelle Williams in United Press International
  For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy,Williams told the British newspaper. "His mind was turning, turning, turning -- always turning. He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump...
• John Mahoney in San Diego Union Tribune
  Walter doesn't want to be there and he's extremely defensive,explains Mahoney. "Then huge problems start to emerge that he kept buried for a long time. His insomnia is the least of it. He's fighting for his job, fighting for his sanity."
• Herbert Benson in Washington Post
  Previously, we had noted that there were scores of diseases that could be treated by eliciting the relaxation response -- everything from different kinds of pain, infertility, rheumatoid arthritis, insomnia,Benson said.