Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Blog

January 31, 2022 NIH releases the 2021 Sleep Research Plan The Sleep Research and Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board is congressionally mandated to develop the US Sleep Research Plan every five years. Established in 1993 by the US Congress, the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) is part of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI),...

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Call for RLS Grant Proposals The RLS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, aspires to achieve universal awareness of the disease, to support identification of effective treatments, and to find the cure for the millions of men, women, and children who suffer from RLS. The RLS Foundation calls for grant proposals of a 1 year-duration, with funding levels of...

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January 13, 2022 Nighttime Agitation — Is It RLS? By Kathy Richards, PhD, RN, FAAN; member of the RLS Foundation’s Scientific and Medical Advisory Board For people in the dementia stage of Alzheimer’s disease (AD-D), the problem of nighttime agitation, defined as the presence or worsening of behaviors such as aggression or wandering in the afternoon or evening,...

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January 7, 2022 The RLS community has lost a giant with the recent passing of Robert H. Waterman, Jr. His career as a management consultant and Senior Partner with McKinsey & Co. culminated with the publication of the first “blockbuster” book on sound management practices. In Search of Excellence, co-authored by Bob and his McKinsey partner, Tom Peters,...

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