Treating sleep problems may improve pain management in patients with cancer.

Findings suggest that chronic insomnia is a major public health concern, and its diagnosis and appropriate treatment should become the target of public health policy.

The study is the first to investigate the effects of maternal smoking on infant arousal processes using polysomnography to define the progression of responses.

Babies are more likely to have night wakings at both 6 months and 12 months of age if they are born to women who suffered from anxiety or depression prior to the pregnancy.

Low socioeconomic status independently predicts the poor acceptance of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for obstructive sleep apnea.

This study was the first to use a school-based sleep intervention with a cognitive behavior framework to improve adolescents’ sleep problems, and it was also the first to use a controlled design with a long-term follow up.

A study in the March 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that it is the rate of change in sleep problems across development, rather than the initial level of sleep problems, that may affect cognitive abilities in late adolescence.

This is the first study to compare in-home measurements of sleep architecture in chil¬dren with ADHD and no co-morbidities with that of con¬trols, while also controlling for potential confounders.

Maintenance of Wakefulness Test 40-minute protocol

Findings of this study suggest that efforts to manage tension-type headache pain by going to sleep might serve as a behavioral risk factor for developing insomnia.