The diagnosis of mental illness is frequently accompanied by sleep problems; conversely, people experiencing sleep problems may subsequently develop mental illness. Sleep and Mental Illness looks at this close correlation and considers the implications of research findings that have emerged in the last ...
Sleep is the source of our strength, a balm for our sick soul, the best of all medicines. Everyone knows from his own experience that often the best and only way to get rid of severe anxiety or mental fatigue is to sleep them off. Happy is the one to whom sleep invariably appears at...
The researchers discovered notable trends when analyzing the associations between sleep measures and inpatient psychiatric diagnoses. Multiple measures of sleep patterns and sleep efficiency are associated with lifetime diagnoses of mental illness, according to a new study that used wrist accelerometer dat...
many of which will overlap with those regulating sleep and circadian rhythms. Viewed in this way, it is no surprise that sleep disruption is common across the mental illness spectrum, or that disruption of circadian biology might worsen a fragile mental health state...
Lack of rest can affect mood and mental health There’s a reason why someone who’s in a bad mood is sometimes said to have “gotten up on the wrong side of the bed." Sleep psychology reports suggest that not getting enough sleep or getting low-quality sleep can affect mood, potentially...
We spoke with The Sleep Doctor himself, Michael Breus, PhD, about the vital connection between sleep, mental health, and building resilience.
What first gave you the idea look into links between sleep and mental illness? Was there a particular story or study or test subject that led you to that? I wasn’t working in the area of mental illness at all, but I had a casual conversation with a psychiatrist in an ele...
Sleep and mental health are, therefore, global public health challenges in their own right, with each having substantive impacts on both individuals and society [3,6,7]. However, problems sleeping and mental health difficulties are also intrinsically linked [8,9]. It was previously assumed that...
Humans need about seven to nine hours of sleep per night. Sleep habits are heritable, associated with brain function and structure, and intrinsically related to well-being, mental, and physical health. However, the biological basis of the interplay of sleep and health is incompletely understood. ...
Sleep spindlesare key electroencephalogram (EEG) oscillatory events that occur during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Deficits in sleep spindles are present in populations with sleep andneurological disorders, and in severe mental illness. Pharmacological manipulation of these waveforms is of growing...