Sleep Dynamic Therapy

Archive for June, 2007

Research continues to mount showing the benefits of CPAP use in decreasing depression symptoms. What’s even more exciting is that the article appears in the well respected Psychosomatic Medicine journal.

Exciting research out of Brazil shows much more precise evidence that sleep breathing problems cause or contribute to atherosclerosis. As has been said for a long time in the sleep medicine community, “untreated sleep apnea is like smoking a pack of cigarettes per day.”

The Washington Post has written a couple articles here and here on the poor state of mental health services in the VAMC across the USA. The sad thing about the articles is how they little they focus on the evidence-based treatments that need to be integrated into these mental health programs. Plenty of research has shown that exposure treatments for PTSD and sleep treatments for insomnia and nightmares will reduce posttraumatic stress symptoms. The articles skim over exposure therapy and say nothing about sleep treatments. Where are the muckrakers of yesteryear who knew how to push things in new directions.