RAJ DASGUPTA

Dr. Raj Dasgupta, an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, and a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, said the right side of the brain is associated with being artistic and creative. The left side is more academic and logical. Dasgupta, who was not involved with the research, said that the testing technologies that the authors utilized -- the imaging, for example -- are not commonly used

The study only offers a first glimpse into the brain’s activity when we’re sleeping for the first time in a sleep lab, hotel room, or the bed of a one-night stand. And according to Dr. Raj Dasgupta, a sleep specialist at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, the kind of a sleep Tamaki’s team measured slowly disappears with age, making it hard to extrapolate these results to everyone. The research also offers only explanations — not solutions — to th

This is one reason some doctors are hesitant to suggest using trackers. “In some cases, [seeing the numbers] just accentuates the problem; it makes people more anxious,” says Dr. Richard Shane, a psychotherapist who developed the Sleep Easily Sleep Method, a research-based system for helping people with insomnia fall asleep. Dr. Raj Dasgupta, who practices sleep medicine at the University of Southern California, adds that people who suffer from chronic insomnia are also at ri

To figure out what’s blocking your airway and what surgery might be best for you, your doctor will use a skinny tube called a nasopharyngoscope. It goes in through your nose and down the back of your throat. If it sounds uncomfortable, don’t worry: Your doctor will either numb the area or give you something to make you sleep. With this method, your doctor “will get to see where the obstruction is and how it happens while you’re actually sleeping,” says Raj Dasgupta, MD, an as

"The bed is meant for one main thing: sleeping," says Raj Dasgupta, MD, a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. "If you stay in bed, then it gives your mind the feeling that it's time to sleep and not start your day." Even worse, he says, is if you fall back asleep. If your "just 10 more minutes" turns into "oops, it's been an hour," then you're waking up from REM sleep instead of the lighter stages of sleep that you would've woken up from had you gotten out of be

“People with a deficient CAR may have deficient levels of energy—or may not even be able to wake up at all,” says Raj Dasgupta, MD, an associate professor of sleep medicine at the University of Southern California and a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. It’s also a highly influenceable process, with research suggesting that numerous factors—including many that are well within our control—can impact whether or not we have a healthy CAR. For example, waking up e

While research is still short on how chronic sleep deprivation, as opposed to one night of sleep deprivation, would affect these signals, the study’s results are otherwise clear: Getting enough shut-eye makes it much easier to pay attention than if you're totally sleep deprived. Dr. Raj Dasgupta, MD, a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, says the