INI Sleep Center

The Illinois Neurological Institute Sleep Center is a source of help for adults, children and infants with sleep disorders. Comprehensive sleep care is provided by a team of experts, including two sleep specialist neurologists, Sarah Zallek, MD, Director, Bradley Gleason, MD, and four nurse practitioners. Patient evaluation, testing, interpretation of studies, and thorough follow-up care are all done in our two state-of-the-art centers in Peoria and Morton.

Women and Sleep

Just like healthy eating habits, healthy sleep habits are an important part of good overall health. But, unlike food, we often try to get by with as little sleep as possible to get through our days. That can lead to poor performance, irritability, excessive daytime sleepiness, and maybe even illness.

Most healthy adults require about 8 hours of sleep a night, at about the same time each night. Like our food intake, we can manipulate how much and when we sleep, but we cannot change our actual sleep need. Sleep scientists continue to find more and more evidence that we do not perform well without it. While we might be able to "get by" on a few hours of sleep or even none at all for a night or two, continuous short nights of sleep (even 6 hours) leads to reduced daytime function.
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