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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Nightmares for Patients with Persecutory Delusions (Nites): An Assessor-Blind, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
(2019-05)
Objective:Nightmares are relatively common in patients experiencing psychosis but rarely assessed or treated. Nightmares may maintain persecutory delusions by portraying fears in sensory-rich detail. We tested the potential ...
The weeks before 100 persecutory delusions: the presence of many potential contributory causal factors
(2019-09)
Background:The period before the formation of a persecutory delusion may provide causal insights. Patient accounts are invaluable in informing this understanding.
Aims:To inform the understanding of delusion formation, ...
Why sleep matters for young people who may get depressed
(2020-04)
Depression and anxiety are negative emotional states familiar to us all through personal experience. Less familiar are severe states of depression, in particular, which can actually shorten the lives of sufferers by over ...
Sleep duration over 28 years, cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure: a prospective cohort study
(2020-01)
Study Objectives
To examine the association between sleep duration trajectories over 28 years and measures of cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure. We hypothesize that consistently meeting sleep ...
The effects of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia on cognitive function: a randomized controlled trial
(2020-03)
We sought to examine the impact of digital cognitive behavioral therapy (dCBT) for insomnia on both self-reported cognitive impairment and objective cognitive performance.
MethodsT: he Defining the Impact of Sleep improvement ...
Sleep disturbance and psychiatric disorders
(2020-07)
Signs of mental ill health that cut across psychiatric diagnostic categories at high rates are typically viewed as non-specific occurrences, downgraded in importance and disregarded. However, problems not associated with ...
The Temporal Dynamics of Sleep Disturbance and Psychopathology in Psychosis: A Digital Sampling Study
(2020-12)
Background: Sleep disruption is a common precursor to deterioration and relapse in people living with
psychotic disorders. Understanding the temporal relationship between sleep and psychopathology is important for identifying ...
The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis
(2017-09-06)
Summary: Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems. If
this is true, improving sleep should benefit psychological health. We aimed to determine whether ...
Sleep Disorders in Early Psychosis: Incidence, Severity, and Association With Clinical Symptoms
(2018-09-08)
Sleep disturbance is known to be associated with psychosis, but sleep disorders (eg. insomnia, nightmare disorder, sleep apnea) have rarely been investigated. We aimed to provide the first detailed assessment of sleep ...
Absent sleep EEG spindle activity in GluA1 (Gria1) knockout mice: relevance to neuropsychiatric disorders
(2018-08)
Sleep EEG spindles have been implicated in attention, sensory processing, synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation. In humans, deficits in sleep spindles have been reported in a wide range of neurological and psychiatric ...