TMS (MeRT) Therapy for Sleep Disorders in Valencia & Calabasas, CA

Better Sleep and Improved Brain Function

At BrainStim Centers, we offer tailored, comprehensive treatments to improve brain function. These treatments often result in far better sleep quality and duration. And better sleep can speed up the body’s natural healing processes. 

Sleep Problems Have a Major Effect on Your Brain Health

Can’t Sleep? Or you can get to sleep, but then you wake up during the night? Do your sleep issues cause you to be more tired during the day? You’re not alone.

One study found that up to 33% of adults have chronic insomnia. And according to the Sleep Foundation, almost half of all Americans feel sleepy during the day between three and seven days per week.

Sleep is incredibly important. The old adage, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” is not just an overused saying: Insufficient sleep can wreak havoc on your health — including your brain health. One long-term sleep study found that people who sleep less than six hours a night have a decline in brain function that equals aging four to seven years.

Quality sleep, in adequate quantity, is as essential to your health as food and water. Sleep affects almost every part of your body, from your brain, heart, and lungs to your metabolism, immune function, disease resistance, and your mood.

And even if you’re practicing healthy eating and exercise habits, a lack of quality sleep will derail you and increase your risk of developing chronic disease. So, what can you do to improve sleep? First, it’s important to know what may be causing your sleep problems.

One reason people can have trouble sleeping is lifestyle choices. But medical conditions can also contribute to sleep problems. People who are suffering from depression, PTSD, or a traumatic brain injury can often have sleep issues as a result of their disorder. And tailored TMS using MeRT can help not just with the disorder but also help improve the duration and quality of sleep.* 

*Results vary from person to person and are not guaranteed. 

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MeRT Treatment Helps Improve Sleep Quality and Duration

At BrainStim Centers, we treat a variety of conditions affecting the brain, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, autism, and more. We also help people optimize their brain performance.

Often, we use MeRT (Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy) to treat these conditions. This gentle, drug-free, non-invasive treatment optimizes brain function. Using precise diagnostic testing, we can identify patterns that may indicate differences from normal brain function. We then tailor treatment to address those areas and improve brainwave connectivity and function.

This treatment can produce many benefits, and one of the first that patients often notice is improved sleep quality and duration.* Not only is sleep a major benefit of MeRT, but it’s also vitally important for brain healing. 

*Results vary from person to person and are not guaranteed. 

Sleep Stages and the Brain

While it’s important to focus on getting enough sleep (number of hours), that’s only part of the picture. It’s also vital to get quality sleep, so the body can restore and generate itself. If your sleep cycle is continuously interrupted, you won’t wake up refreshed — no matter how many hours of sleep you’re getting.

Over the course of the night, your sleep is made up of several rounds of the sleep cycle, composed of five stages. Different physiological changes occur during each cycle. REM (Rapid Eye Movement) is the dreaming state of sleep and only occurs once during each cycle. While sleep cycles are not all the same length, they typically last about 90 minutes each. 

Stages of the Sleep Cycle

Stage 1: This is the light sleep state when you first begin to fall asleep but are still aware of things around you. Brain activity begins to slow at this time.

Stage 2: You are fully asleep, your heart rate slows down, body temperature decreases, and brainwaves continue to slow.

Stage 3: Brain waves slow down, and delta waves begin to appear. Muscles relax, and breathing slows even more. 

Stage 4: This deep sleep stage is most important for healing and restoration. Tissue repair occurs during this stage. And human growth hormone — responsible for cell growth, reproduction, and regeneration — is released.

Stage 5: REM sleep, or the dreaming stage. The eyes move rapidly behind the lids, and breathing is shallow and rapid. This stage stimulates the sections of the brain needed for memory and learning. 

During the earlier part of the night, you spend less time in REM sleep and more time in the deep sleep stage. Closer to morning, the opposite occurs: the deep sleep stage is shortened, and the dreaming stage is longer. 

Any interruption or disturbance of sleep throughout the night can cause a lack of time spent in the various sleep stages, including the deep sleep stage — which is crucial to health.

The National Institutes of Health put it this way: “Without sleep, you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories, and it’s harder to concentrate and respond quickly.

Sleep is important to a number of brain functions, including how nerve cells (neurons) communicate with each other. In fact, your brain and body stay remarkably active while you sleep. Recent findings suggest that sleep plays a housekeeping role that removes toxins in your brain that build up while you are awake.”

If you’re experiencing difficulties either getting to sleep or staying asleep, it’s vital to discover why and then get it corrected. 

Sleep Disorders and Brain Disorders

Our patients come to see us in order to help them heal from brain disorders. Most also have sleep problems, and MeRT can help. However, it can go both ways: Health conditions can cause sleep disorders, and sleep disorders can cause some serious health conditions.

That’s why it’s important to make lifestyle choices (eating habits, behaviors) that can improve your sleep. But that’s easier said than done. Once the brain establishes a behavioral pattern, neurotransmitters will fire specifically to continue that behavior pattern.

MeRT helps to change these neuronal patterns and strengthen pathways so that the brain can heal. However, you also need to know how to keep your brain healthy by establishing new habits and behaviors. 

Ways to Improve Your Sleep

Sometimes even the smallest behavioral changes can make a big difference when it comes to improving sleep. Here are a few things you can do: 

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If you’re experiencing sleep issues caused by a brain disorder, we are here for you. We want to help, and it costs nothing to call us and talk about what is happening. MeRT may just be the treatment you need to help you live the best possible life.

During your call, the New Patient Coordinator will listen to you and answer your questions. She will also explain our process and protocols, as well as costs, possible insurance benefits, and any other details you want to know.

There are no obligations, and she will take all the time you need in order to determine whether you should take the next steps. 

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