Sleep

Sleep expert Dr. Sara Mednick says one of the major goals to improve sleep health isn't simply for health benefits, but because it's essential to repair the daily buildup of toxins that accumulate during each wake period.

The total duration of sleep increased from 9 hours 8 minutes prior to the pandemic to 9 hours 54 minutes during school closures in Taiwan.

Findings revealed that self-health issues, family-health issues, and financial stress were the leading co-occurrences in older adults during the beginning of the pandemic.

Investigators aimed to characterize and evaluate the prevalence of sleep symptoms in patients with long COVID syndrome.

Factors including trust of information, fear, and resilience were related to insomnia and suicidal thoughts in healthcare workers, general population and outpatients.

A cohort study aimed to examine the risk of overdose when treating patients with benzodiazepines compared with alternative therapies for sleep disorders, specifically in young people.

The burden of sleep disorders is high among the transgender or gender-nonconforming population and this study evaluated the role of gender-affirming therapy on that relationship.

A study published in Diabetologia discovered that individuals who are exposed to high light pollution while they sleep show a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Sleep Medicine Expert Daniel Gottlieb, MD, MPH, details a response to the USPSTF screening recommendations for obstructive sleep apnea in a primary care setting.

US Prevention Services Task Force (USPSTF) announces that after reviewing the clinical utility of obstructive sleep apnea screening tools in a primary care setting, there's insufficient evidence to determine the balance between benefit and harm.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for insomnia is the front-line treatment for sleep disturbance. However, the effectiveness of this approach for those with primary brain tumors hasn't been evaluated until now.

"Having the ability to enhance the sleep quality in a way that is scientifically important, and also taking into account objective measurements opens a lot of possibilities," Gary Garcia-Molina, PhD, said in an interview.

Because unhealthy sleep is associated with multiple conditions and higher risk of mortality, investigators call for further research on the potential to optimize overall sleep health in the US.

Gary Garcia-Molina, PhD, explains precisely how Sleep Number smart bed technology works after conducting multiple sleep studies.

At the International Pediatric Sleep Association (IPSA) Congress 2022, investigators from Sleep Number presented 2 investigations that utilized its smart bed technology to analyze pediatric sleep behaviors.

New data from the International Pediatric Sleep Association (IPSA) Congress 2022 used smart bed technology that revealed consistent findings to previous studies.

Women who were socially isolated were more likely to have insomnia than women who were socially integrated.

A study from the Netherlands suggests steps to address patients’ sleep health.

Evidence has suggested a relationship between screen time and poor sleep among youth, however, little evidence has been provided for adults.

When compared to traditional in-lab polysomnography, the Circul ring-worn oximeter produced similarly reliable results in detecting obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Due to the lack of a standard set of ‘good sleep’ criteria, a questionnaire was developed to help gauge criteria for sleep health.

Dr. Mednick's latest book, The Power of the Downstate, focuses on the integrated role of sleep by following the "rhythm of upstates and downstates" that people operate in every day.

Nonpharmacological sleep interventions that focused on earlier sleep schedules can serve as a “simple, pragmatic, effective way to meaningfully increase sleep duration that could have important benefits for child health.”

According to recent research, there’s no association between insomnia and vitamin D deficiency, although, insomnia did correlate with abnormal anxiety and depression scores among university students.

Patients with Parkinson disease had more pronounced sleep instability than those with other disorders marked by alpha-synuclein buildup, but those differences diminished after adjusting for medication differences, a new study found.