Sleep Apps Are Unproven
Sleep apps (SA) remain among the most popular apps downloaded for Apple and Android devices. The number of available SA is continually growing. SA claim to track and define sleep.…
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CBT-I Is The First-Line Treatment for Chronic Insomnia
CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia) is the most effective cognitive behavioral therapy intervention for any adult health problem. It is more effective than cognitive behavioral therapy for depression, panic…
Sleep Loss Does Not Lead to Overeating and Obesity
Widely publicized claims have linked sleep loss to weight gain and obesity. These claims are based primarily on two very small studies conducted by the same researchers on young male…
Long Sleep Duration, But Not Short Sleep Duration, Predicts Mortality Risk
The largest meta-analysis to date on sleep duration and mortality risk, involving 35 published studies and over 1.5 million adults, found that the increased risk of death associated with sleeping…
Influential Report Advises Against Sleeping Pill Use By The Elderly
The Beers list uses specific criteria to identify and list inappropriate, high risk drugs in the elderly that should be avoided in favor of a non-drug approach or safer medications…
Sleep Medications Are Not Clinically Effective In A Large Number Of Patients
A study on the real-world effectiveness of sleeping pills found they do not alleviate insomnia in most cases. The study assessed the effects of benzodiazepine-type sleep medications (including Ambien, Lunesta,…
The Human Brain May Be Designed for Seven Hours of Sleep
New research suggests that seven hours of sleep is associated with: 1. the lowest mortality risk while longer sleep is associated with greater mortality risk than shorter sleep; and, 2.…
The Eight Hour Sleep Myth
The eight hour sleep myth has been perpetuated by some sleep scientists, pharmaceutical companies that fund those scientists, and organizations such as the National Sleep Foundation that are heavily funded…
Sleeping Pills are Only Marginally Effective
There is little evidence that the newer generation sleeping pills such as Ambien or Lunesta are more effective than older sleeping pills such as Dalmane or Restoril. There is, however,…
CBT-I and Depression
CBT-I has consistently been shown to be the most effective treatment for chronic insomnia. It improves sleep in 75-80% of insomnia patients, is proven more effective than sleeping pill in…