Sleep Medicine News

The prevalence of benzodiazepine use among adults in the United States was higher than previously reported, according to a study analyzing data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

Daytime napping is associated with increased risk for major CV events and deaths in individuals with more than 8 hours of nighttime sleep, according to findings published in the European Heart Journal.

A recent study in Seattle found that later start times in high schools resulted in increased sleep duration and better performance in students.

Patients with suicidal posttraumatic stress disorder who received nighttime-only prazosin demonstrated worse improvements in insomnia and nightmares and no reduction in suicide ideation, according to findings published in Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.

The evolving field of clinical sleep medicine can offer psychiatrists a challenging, satisfying and rewarding career, according to a CME article published in Psychiatric Annals.

Insufficient sleep may cause impairments in daytime functioning among teenagers with ADHD, according to findings from a crossover sleep restriction/extension study.

Interventions based on the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Health Action Process Approach that included primers on sleep medicine, reconstructed sleeping environments and outlined sleeping habits, improved sleep hygiene in teenagers, according to findings recently published in Sleep.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In a session here, David Neubauer, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University, answered key questions submitted by clinicians prior to the presentation to help health care professionals address clinical challenges in sleep disorders.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Over-the-counter medications like Benadryl are commonly administered to children as a sleep aid by their parents, according to research presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition. More than three-quarters of parents who gave these drugs to their children were not recommended to do so by their child’s pediatrician nor did they disclose this information to the pediatrician, researchers wrote.

Preliminary study results reported the beneficial effect of treatment with Trintellix on subjective sleep and daytime sleepiness in patients with insomnia and major depressive disorder.