By Hannah Dunbar(Brain Posts Note: Hannah Dunbar is an Oral Roberts University student posting her last guest post today as part of her summer research project.)Insomnia is a common and pervasive problem in patients suffering from medical and psychiatric illnesses such as, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD) eating disorders and anxiety disorders. Even when the primary psychiatric
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July 1, 2010
Treating Insomnia in Depression with CBT-I
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June 23, 2010
June 16, 2010
Sleep Markers Support New Animal Model of Depression
By Hannah Dunbar(Hannah Dunbar is an Oral Roberts University student providing a guest post reviewing a study of a mouse model of depression.) Sleep disturbances are one of the most common clinical features in major depression. Patients commonly report problems with insomnia and daytime fatigue and sleepiness. These sleep symptoms have been the source of study in sleep laboratories. Several
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June 10, 2010
Understanding the Switch Process in Bipolar Disorder
(Brain Post Note: Hannah Dunbar is a summer research student from Oral Roberts University. Today she will be summarizing some of the key issues in the neurobiology of the switch process in bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a somewhat unique mental disorder in that the onset of a mood swing can be quite dramatic--a patient with bipolar disorder can be fine one day and manic the next. It is
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