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Severity of insomnia, specifically difficulty initiating sleep, was a significant predictor of major depressive disorder, a prospective study of 768 adults with a history of depression suggests. Insomnia has been [...]

DENVER -- Older adults with longstanding hypnotic-dependent insomnia who wish to stop taking their sleep medication usually can do so successfully--with resultant improvement in sleep--by participating in a program of [...]

Background Providing effective treatment for insomnia remains a challenge in medical practice. The National Institutes of Health recently released its final statement from a state-of-the-science conference on this common clinical [...]

DENVER -- Gaboxadol improved sleep initiation and maintenance while increasing time spent in restorative slow-wave sleep in an acute phase II placebo-controlled trial, Stephen Deacon, Ph.D., reported at the annual [...]

Mercury spills and exposures are seemingly uncommon but occur with enough regularity to consider toxic exposure to the metal in patients who have headaches, rashes, skin desquamation, and behavioral or [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Insomnia and poor sleep habits may be the cause of the transformation from episodic to chronic migraine, Anne H. Calhoun, M.D., said in a poster session at the [...]

DENVER -- Chronic insomnia in depressed elderly patients confers roughly a ninefold increased risk of continued depression after as much as 12 months of antidepressant therapy, Wilfred Pigeon, Ph.D., reported [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Behavioral therapies can break the habits and misconceptions that cause chronic insomnia, provided that psychiatric or medical problems are not at play, Dr. Bashir Chaudhary said at [...]