sleep deprivation Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:01:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 sleep deprivation Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Chronotherapy and Bipolar Disorder https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/chronotherapy-and-bipolar-disorder/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/chronotherapy-and-bipolar-disorder/#respond Sat, 01 Feb 2020 01:04:20 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=16032 Chronotherapy refers to treatments for depression, mania, or both, that focus on changing sleep and wakefulness patterns. This blog post provides an update of this important area. Background The International Society of Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force on chronobiology and chronotherapy published a comprehensive review of chronotherapy techniques and their effectiveness in bipolar disorder in 2019. This article summarizes the ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/chronotherapy-and-bipolar-disorder/feed/ 0 16032 Insomnia Relief https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/insomnia-relief/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:52:59 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=12103 How to find insomnia relief is a question that many people we work with struggle with. A recent editorial in JAMA Psychiatry and the accompanying research article suggests that the online program that we’ve been recommending to our patients for years (SHUTi) is the treatment of choice for insomnia. We have been extremely pleased with the results from this program which can ...

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]]> 12103 Do We Need 8 Hours of Sleep? https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/need-8-hours-sleep/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:47:30 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9323 A recently published study that looked at patterns of sleep in three different hunter gatherer societies challenges the long-held notion that we all need to sleep 8 to 9 hours a night and that many of us in Western society are chronically sleep deprived. The results are summarized in an article we just published in our companion website MoodSurfing.com. Tantalizing ...

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]]> 9323 Chronotherapy for Depression Treats Suicidality https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/chronotherapy-for-depression/ Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:35:18 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8334 Chronotherapy for depression may be a very fast and effective treatment for suicidality, according to a preliminary study just published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. 10 inpatients received what was called “triple chronotherapy” and showed dramatic and rapid reductions in suicidal ideation and depression. Of course this is a very small sample and only one study. But it points ...

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