Sleep Medicine
News
Poor sleep raises risk for fatty liver disease
Late bedtimes, snoring, and prolonged daytime napping were significantly associated with MAFLD,
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
Best meds for insomnia identified?
For many insomnia medications, there is a “striking” and “appalling” lack of long-term data.
News
Disturbed sleep drives poor PrEP adherence in young Black sexual-minority men
News
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
Conference Coverage
Novel drug ‘promising’ for concomitant depression, insomnia
Patients with more severe insomnia at baseline had a greater improvement in depressive symptoms.
News
Seven hours of sleep is ideal for middle aged and older
Too much or too little sleep may contribute to poor mental health and cognitive performance.
News
Severe COVID-19 adds 20 years of cognitive aging: Study
The impairment is “equivalent to losing 10 IQ points.”
News
Internet intervention improved insomnia in Black women
Nearly half of women who took part in an online intervention achieved full resolution of insomnia after 6 months.