Keyword: sleep

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The Power of Rest with Matthew Edlund July 29, 2010

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Matthew Edlund
Category: Personal Growth & Change, The Mind & Neuroscience

Rest is as essential as food, yet radically undervalued. Dr. Matthew Edlund, author of The Power of Rest, joins Armand DiMele to explain how strategic rest rebuilds memory, why late-night eating harms the body, and how paradoxical relaxation, music, and rhythm can transform daily life. Callers share their own sleep struggles.

The Rhythms That Run Your Body September 30, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Sherri Siegel
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Your heartbeat, digestion, sleep cycles, and mood are all governed by biological rhythms, and falling out of sync has real consequences. Armand DiMele and Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. explore cortisol, melatonin, the pineal gland, and what it means when two people’s rhythms simply don’t match.

The Science of Being Awake March 20, 2008

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Depression & Mood, The Mind & Neuroscience

Wakefulness is not the opposite of sleep but a spectrum of its own. Armand DiMele surveys the science of staying alert, from circadian rhythms and brain waves to caffeine and cortisol, then connects it all to how people like the chronically sleepy, the manic, and the depressed actually move through the world.

The Hidden Life of Sleep and Dreams March 19, 2008

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Nightmares may be the brain’s rehearsal for survival, not signs of disorder. Armand DiMele draws on evolutionary theory, neuroscience, and Greek mythology to argue that dreams, darkness, and REM sleep are biological necessities our modern world systematically undermines. Callers share vivid shared dreams and relationship anxieties.

The Science of Sleep and Insomnia March 18, 2008

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Anxiety & Fear, The Mind & Neuroscience

Why do we assume we need eight hours of sleep? Armand DiMele challenges conventional wisdom on insomnia, walking through sleep cycles, the autonomic nervous system, cortisol, and how much rest we actually need. A vivid prose passage capturing the misery of sleeplessness at 3 a.m. anchors the whole conversation.

Sleep Sex and Human Difference September 6, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Sexuality & Desire, The Mind & Neuroscience

Every person’s inner life is radically different, and sleep is where that strangeness shows most clearly. Armand DiMele moves from the diversity of human experience into the territory of sexomnia, narcoleptic false memories of childhood assault, and Ambien’s surprising links to hypersexuality and compulsive night eating.

Hormones Running Your Life September 4, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Prolactin, dopamine, and serotonin shape your mood, sex drive, and sleep far more than your conscious choices do. Armand DiMele explains how post-orgasmic prolactin surge explains the sleep-after-sex dynamic, why falling asleep to a flashing TV rewires your brain, and how sugar sabotages rest. Caller Adam’s relationship tension brings the biochemistry home.

What Do You Know for Sure March 15, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Aging & Mortality, Personal Growth & Change

Armand DiMele opens with research on male biological clocks, aging eyesight, fertility cues, and Ambien sleep-eating before pivoting to a bigger question: what do you know for sure? Callers share overlooked personal skills, and Armand uses those skills as a mirror to surface deeper struggles like depression and lost direction.

Sleep Rituals and Disorders September 21, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Sleep is rarely discussed in therapy, but your bedtime rituals reveal more about you than almost anything else. Armand DiMele walks through the psychology of sleep habits, shared beds, and disorders from insomnia and hypersomnia to sleepwalking and night terrors, then takes callers through their own sleep secrets.

Fear, Sleeplessness and the Medicated Mind February 8, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Anxiety & Fear, The Mind & Neuroscience

Surging sleeping pill prescriptions since 2000 point to a population kept chronically anxious by threat messaging and media fear cycles. Armand and co-host Roberta Maria Atti trace how an overstimulated amygdala eventually crashes into depression, why sleep is biologically active rather than passive rest, and what simple remedies can replace Ambien.