Sleep Disorders News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In two separate cohorts of individuals with multiple sclerosis and memory issues, better sleep was linked to improved verbal memory, according to a poster at ACTRIMS 2024.

Medicare recipients with various cancer types had more frequent surgical complications when they also had at least one behavioral health disorder, according to study results published in Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Individuals with mania who were admitted to an acute care psychiatric unit saw greater sleep improvement than patients with major depressive disorder, according to a study.

More than three-quarters of people with mild COVID-19 reported experiencing insomnia after recovery, and it was more common among those with anxiety or depression, according to the results of a survey.

Takeda has announced positive topline results from a phase 2b trial evaluating an oral orexin receptor 2 agonist to treat individuals with narcolepsy type 1.

Symptoms of dry eye disease were more closely related to sleep disturbances than exam findings, although inflammation and meibum quality were linked to subjective sleep quality, according to a study in BMJ Open Ophthalmology.

Poor sleep quality and low energy on the previous day were associated with incident morning headache, while higher than average energy levels and stress were linked to later-day headache onset, researchers reported in Neurology.

The popular trend of Dry January is coming to a close for the year, but it helped spark interest in the benefits of abstaining from alcohol, even for just a month.

Combination behavioral and pharmaceutical therapy improved functionality and daytime symptoms of insomnia, while addition of a second treatment provided further benefits for the condition, according to research from JAMA Network Open.

Sleep fragmentation, rather than sleep duration or self-reported sleep quality, in early midlife was associated with worse executive function, fluency and cognition more than a decade later, according to research in Neurology.