Please Explain: Insomnia

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
On this week’s Please Explain, we’ll ask two experts what causes insomnia, and what can be done to fight it. Dr. Art Spielman, a psychologist at City College and Associate Director of the Sleep Disorder Centers at New York Methodist Hospital and New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Dr. Judy Owens, associate professor of pediatrics at Brown Medical School and the director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Rhode Island Hospital, join us.

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