Evotec Reports Positive Top-Line Results in Phase II Study With EVT 201 in Elderly Insomniacs With Daytime Sleepiness
Statistical Significance in Primary and Key Secondary Endpoints at Both
Doses Data Confirm Robust Sleep Onset and Sleep Maintenance Effects Seen in
Sleep Aids Are Not The Best Option For Insomniacs
According to a study many Americans are affected by insomnia, not able to get good sleep in the night, and most of them are turning to sleep aids that will act fast and put them to sleep. //
Seeing a doctor for an instant insomnia "cure," however, shouldn't be the first course of action, says...
Can't Sleep? Try Online Therapy
...tried counting sheep, maybe even taken sleeping pills. You might also want to try online therapy for help in getting a better night's rest.
who took part in online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), including education about sleep hygiene, relaxation techniques and tips for stilling an ov...
Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics recover from dependence, small study suggests
...e drug, often used to treat epilepsy and chronic pain, is not habit-forming and is not processed by the liver.
Although the study involved only 21 insomniacs
in recovery from alcohol dependence, and did not provide long-term gabapentin treatment or long-term follow-up on their sleep or their alcohol recover...
Parental Insomnia Can Harm Adolescent Children
... have chronic insomnia.
For this study, 450 boys and 348 girls, mean age just over 14, completed a sleep and health questionnaire. Both children of insomniacs
and non-insomniacs were included.
Children of insomniac parents were almost three times more likely to report symptoms of insomnia themselves, more...
Insomnia patients often denied sleep treatment when they have mental health conditions
...will help them sleep which could then make related anxiety or depression worse, new research suggests.
Scientists examining treatment patterns for insomniacs
say that their findings suggest that many doctors appear to be reluctant to prescribe sleep aids, even those that pose no risk of dependence, if patie...
This is no yarn …Talk your way to beauty sleep
... weeks. Six months after treatment, researchers gauged the sleep pattern of the group that underwent the treatment.
The finding revealed that the insomniacs
who received CBT perceived a 10% reduction in the time spent on the bed awake, as against 20% before treatment. Importantly, this status improved six ...
Losing Sleep over Money or Money over Sleep? Sleep over It!
Sleep centers are mushrooming by the dozen with promises of detecting dormant sleep disorders, and making hay while the sun shines. So, insomniacs
had better wake up to these sleep strategists or sleep tacticians, with paraphernalia in tow, that use air mattresses and monitors to record how peopl...
Insomnia Hits Many Canadians: Survey
... insomnia. On an average, they get 6-1/2 hours of sleep a night compared with 7-1/2 hours // for those without the problem.
And 18 per cent of the insomniacs
averaged less than five hours of Zs a night.
There's a substantial number of Canadians -- 13 per cent -- that have insomnia, Margot Shields, a sen...
Insomniacs have increased activity of stress hormones
suffer from increased blood levels of stress hormones, thereby there is con...al changes, especially cortisol particularly during evening and night time, insomniacs
have the highest degree of sleep. Dr. Alexandros and colleagues propose tha...
Controversial Study to Test Link Between Insomnia and Sleep Apnea
...ies -- and is usually treated with sleeping pills or talk therapy. Pitted against the CW is the provocative theory that a large percentage of Chronic insomniacs
suffer from Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a physical breathing problem that might cause unwanted or unexpected sleeplessness.
Several leading ...