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The first adult sleep therapy clinic of its kind has opened in the South West.
Based in Exeter, the clinic provides expert adult sleep therapy with treatment for insomnia and related sleep problems.
Run by Sleep Physiologist Stephanie Romiszewski, the course of treatment combines a scientific knowledge base with a sleep specific form of cognitive behavioral therapy to offer an effective long-term treatment for insomnia and other sleep issues.
Stephanie said: “We all know how it feels to get one bad night's sleep- and how good it feels when you finally get that...
Researchers at the University of Exeter have found evidence of a link between poverty and attention defect hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children.
An analysis of more than 19,500 UK children aged 13 and under found that there was a significantly higher number of children from families living below the poverty line had been diagnosed with ADHD.
The study also found that a child with ADHD was roughly three times more likely to have parents who live in social housing than owned their own home.
There was also a rise in incidence of children with ADHD from single...
New research suggests that children are far less likely to be diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the UK than they are in the USA.
However, the same study, led by the University of Exeter Medical School, suggests that autism diagnosis is still rising.
The study is published online in the Journal of Autism Developmental Disorders, published by Springer, and was supported by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in the South West Peninsula (NIHR PenCLAHRC).
