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All articles tagged: Insomnia (G47.0)

HealthDay 16 January at 04.54 PM

Cognitive Therapy or Trazodone Not Effective for Insomnia in Hemodialysis

For patients undergoing hemodialysis with chronic insomnia, the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) or trazodone does not differ from placebo, according to a study published online Jan. 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Rajnish Mehrotra, M.D., from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Se

HealthDay 12 January at 04.59 AM

YouTube Sleep Videos Contain Misinformation, Commercial Bias

Popular YouTube videos about sleep and insomnia contain misinformation and commercial bias, according to a study published online Feb. 16 in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.Rebecca Robbins, Ph.D., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues compared the understandability, information quality, and presence of m

HealthDay 04 January at 11.53 PM

Shift Work Tied to Disordered Sleeping

All shift work schedules are associated with adverse sleep effects, according to a study published online Dec. 7 in Frontiers in Psychiatry.Gretha J. Boersma, Ph.D., from the GGZ Drenthe Mental Health Institute in Assen, Netherlands, and colleagues evaluated the presence of short sleep (no more than six hours) and long sleep (nine or m

HealthDay 09 November at 04.14 PM

Eating Disorders Linked to Negative Physical Health

Eating disorders are associated with a significant increase in the risk for physical multimorbidity, according to a study recently published online in Eating and Weight Disorders.Lee Smith, from Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom, and colleagues used data from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (7,403 particip

HealthDay 08 November at 04.57 PM

Genetic Predisposition to Insomnia Linked to Insomnia-Like Problems

Children who are genetically predisposed to insomnia have more insomnia-like sleep problems from early childhood through adolescence, according to a study published online Nov. 8 in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.Desana Kocevska, M.D., Ph.D., from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, and colleagues