Category: Prevailing Attitudes

Prevailing Attitudes

Assessing Daytime Sleepiness: AASM Updates Protocols for MSLT & MWT

Standardization of multiple sleep latency tests and maintenance of wakefulness tests will increase the value of results.

Prevailing Attitudes

Inside Supermoon Capital’s Big Dreams For Its Sleep Tech Focused Fund

Crunchbase: The three co-founders hope to close out the firm’s first fund with around 15 investments.

Prevailing Attitudes

AASM Updates Guidance on the Treatment of Narcolepsy & Other Hypersomnias

A new American Academy of Sleep Medicine clinical practice guideline details “strong” and “conditional” recommendations for the treatment of central disorders of hypersomnolence in adults and children.

Academies & Associations

AASM Releases Clinical Practice Guideline for Hypersomnia Treatment

It provides recommendations to guide clinicians in choosing a prescription medication to treat disorders such as narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, and Kleine-Levin Syndrome.

Corporate Wellness

Christopher M. Barnes Named SIOP Fellow

Christopher M. Barnes, PhD, has been named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

Celebrities, Politics

Is Insomnia Inevitable for Creative Geniuses?

Mic: According to a sleep specialist, a correlation seems to exist, but scientists are still teasing apart the details.

Public Institutions

Some Teachers Let Their Students Sleep in Class

USA Today: Experts agree sleeping in class doesn't always stem from laziness, and instead could be a sign something more serious is going on.

Child Sleep Training

Poor Sleep in Infancy Linked to Toddler Behavioral Problems

Disrupted and poor quality sleep in the earliest months of a child's life can be an indicator of depression, anxiety, and behavioral problems among toddlers, according to a new study.

Future of Sleep

Single Blood Draw Could Assess Individual Circadian Rhythm Timing in the Future

Researchers used a machine learning algorithm to determine which collection of metabolites were associated with the circadian clock.