Sleep Medicine
Commentary
Reassessing benzodiazepines: What role should this medication class play in psychiatry?
Benzodiazepines are appropriate and helpful in situations that cause transient anxiety and with patients who have done poorly with other options...
News
Waking up at night could be your brain boosting your memory
“Every time I wake up in the middle of the night now, I think – ah, nice, I probably just had great memory-boosting sleep.”
News
Charcoal could be the cure for the common high-fat diet
Plus: Brains sleep through noradrenaline waves in one study and get insulted by investigators in another.
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Electroacupuncture promising for depression-related insomnia
Patients with co-occurring depression and sleep disorders have a greater risk for relapse and recurrence of depression.
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Best meds for insomnia identified?
For many insomnia medications, there is a “striking” and “appalling” lack of long-term data.
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Lifestyle medicine eases anxiety symptoms
The results support the value of multicomponent lifestyle medicine interventions for patients with anxiety in the short-term.
Conference Coverage
Study links sleep and objective, subjective cognition
Poor sleep efficiency may contribute to older adults overestimating their cognitive abilities, pointing to the need for objective cognitive...
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Children with autism experience more severe sleep apnea
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Longer circadian rhythms linked to severe depression in teens
Individual biological clocks may play a crucial role in mental health in adolescents.
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Can too much sleep raise the risk of cancer?
A sleep duration of 6-8 hours for men and 6-9 hours for women “may be the safest” regarding cancer incidence and mortality risk among Japanese...
Conference Coverage
Findings raise questions about migraine and sleep