Research Articles
Updates about new sleep medicine research publications, funding opportunities, and NIH news
Sleep duration among U.S. Hispanic/Latinos varies by heritage as well as socioeconomic status, according to a study in the October issue of the journal SLEEP.
A study in the October issue of the journal SLEEP shows that later average bedtime during the workweek from adolescence to adulthood was associated with an increase in body mass index over time.
According to a study in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, stronger evening preference and less improvement in sleep efficiency independently predicted less reduction in depressive symptom severity following cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I).
A new study shows that nearly 73 percent of obstructive sleep apnea patients had clinically significant depressive symptoms at baseline. However, these symptoms remained in only 4 percent of the sleep apnea patients who adhered to CPAP therapy for 3 months.
Shorter and longer sleep durations both may be risk factors for high blood pressure, according to a meta-analysis published in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
According to a study of twins published in the September issue of the journal SLEEP, insomnia in adults is partially explained by genetic factors, and this heritability is higher in females than in males.
The National Healthy Sleep Awareness Project has developed and proposed questions for inclusion in the next Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the nation's premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, announced this week that Thomas R. Insel, MD, will step down as Director for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) effective Nov. 1, 2015.
These articles from recent issues of the journal SLEEP received the most pageviews on the SLEEP website from June through August 2015.https://www.journalsleep.org/
The Seventh Annual Sleep Research Network Conference will be held in Maryland at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda on Oct. 12-13, 2015. The registration deadline is Oct. 1.