Deployment Psychology Blog

When we think of “sleep problems” most of the time our brains go to insomnia – that group of people we work with who have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep despite adequate opportunity to sleep. But what about the opposite side of the sleep coin… or pillow, if you will? What about the group of folks who desperately want sleep, need sleep, crave sleep AND could sleep if only given adequate opportunity to do so? In this week’s episode, we sit down, once again, with one of CDP’s sleep experts, Dr. Diana Dolan, to talk about sleep deprivation and the associated functional impairments

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
● Sudden gains in therapist-guided versus self-guided online treatments for anxiety or depression.
● Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia with objective short sleep duration phenotype: A systematic review with meta-analysis.
● Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia prevents and alleviates suicidal ideation: insomnia remission is a suicidolytic mechanism.