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Photo: Soldier sleeping on the ground.

Getting sufficient rest each night ensures optimal mental performance and can help alleviate stress. Sleep also physically restores your body and strengthens your immune system against illness and disease. Visit the following sites for information on the importance of sleep and how to ensure you’re getting enough.

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10 tips to help foster healthy sleep habits

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9/6/2016
Army National Guard Soldiers catch a few minutes of sleep on board C-17 Globemaster III. Sleep is important for healthy brain function, emotional well-being and overall good physical health. But many service members and veterans are not getting the sleep they need. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch)

Sleep is important for healthy brain function, emotional well-being and overall good physical health

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A good NAPP is key to better sleep

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7/25/2016
Air Force Senior Airman Karen Machado takes a nap before going to a deployed location.

A new smartphone app will soon help warfighters get the sleep they need

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Research and Innovation, Innovation, Sleep

Sleep cycles

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6/22/2016
U.S. Army Rangers, rest for a moment in between events during the Best Ranger Competition 2016, at Fort Benning, Ga., April 16, 2016. The competition is a three-day event consisting of challenges that test competitor's physical, mental, and technical capabilities. The Rangers compete for nearly sixty hours with little or no sleep, and must rest intermittently for minutes at a time while waiting to begin their next event. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Justin P. Morelli)

You’ll feel more rested waking up at the end of a sleep cycle

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Sleep, Human Performance Resource Center

Resources help new military moms gain resiliency against post-partum depression

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5/23/2016
New mothers can sometimes feel overwhelmed, which can sometimes result in post-partum depression.

Feeling the “baby blues” is common for new moms. But it could develop into post-partum depression. Experts offer tips on how to recognize it and how to prevent it.

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Mental Wellness, Sleep, Mental Health Care, Women's Health

Effect of smartphones on vision and health of service members

Article
3/28/2016
Sleeplessness is just one of several potential outcomes from the extended use of smartphones.

VA Optometrist talks about the impact using smartphones can have on our vision and long-term health

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Access, Cost, Quality, and Safety, Public Health, Sleep

Armed with sleep: The importance of sleep on warfighter performance

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3/22/2016
Army Soldiers catch a few minutes of sleep on board an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III.

Scientists at the Naval Health Research Center’s Sleep and Fatigue Research Laboratory are studying the sleep concerns warfighters face

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Sleep, Operation Live Well

Sleep is serious: Catch your Zzzs

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3/10/2016
A Soldier gets some sleep after a mission.

Sleep hygiene involves a variety of different behavioral practices which are necessary for quality sleep and full alertness during waking hours.

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Sleep, Operation Live Well

Sleep is a performance asset

Article
1/21/2016
Navy Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith DeVinney takes a long-needed break and sleeps on a bur during a field training exercise in the Angeles National Forest near Azusa, California.

As people become more sleep-deprived, they become less aware that they’re impaired

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Medical experts look beyond drugs for sleep solutions

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1/8/2016
Soldiers from the 824th Quarter Master Company find a convenient place to rest while waiting for transportation to their deployment.

One in 20 active-duty Soldiers are on sleep medications

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Sleep, Operation Live Well

NHRC sleep lab hosts insomnia workshop

Article
12/29/2015
Dr. Rachel Markwald (right), a research scientist at NHRC, provides an overview of the research being conducting to detect the different stages of sleep and sleep disorders to visitors from the Chinese Navy.

The main objective for this event was to discuss ways to prevent, diagnose and treat insomnia in our Sailors and Marines

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Rested Soldiers perform better in battle, experts say

Article
12/23/2015
Soldiers try and get comfortable and get some sleep on their way home from deployment.

A scientist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research describes findings from his research on sleep deprivation

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Navy hosts medical staff from the Peace Ark

Article
11/19/2015
File photo of the Republic of China, People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA[N]) hospital ship Peace Ark (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shannon Renfroe)

The Naval Health Research Center hosted personnel from the Republic of China, People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA[N]) hospital ship Peace Ark

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Extremities Loss, Traumatic Brain Injury, Global Health Engagement, Sleep, Building Partner Capacity and Interoperability

Sleep and Warfighters

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10/15/2015
Infographic about how sleep impacts service member performance

Inforgraphic about how sleep--or lack of it--may impact performance.

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10 Habits for Better Sleep

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9/28/2015
10 Habits for better sleep.

This infographic lists 10 ways you can get a better night's sleep.

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Sleep issues bedeviling soldiers' health

Article
9/15/2015
Soldiers, from the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, are shown during a 19-hour flight from Alaska to Australia trying to get some sleep on the floor and seats of a Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Globemaster, during Exercise Talisman Sabre 15. Soldiers, who are deployed, average just three hours of sleep a night. (U.S. Army photo by David Vergun)

If you have less than six hours of sleep for six days in a row … you are cognitively impaired as if you had a .08-percent alcohol level

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Health Readiness, Traumatic Brain Injury, Sleep, Mental Wellness
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