Sleep Disorders

Among those who took their second nighttime sodium oxybate dose 4 hours after their first, 42% claimed they felt somewhat, quite a bit, or extremely groggy or unsteady the next morning.

Russell Rosenberg, PhD, DABSM, and Margaret Park, MD, review the case of a 15-year-old girl who presents with excessive daytime sleepiness and share clinical impressions on diagnosis and treatment.

In the AAN 2022 presidential plenary session, a trio of neurologists discussed a variety of issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and how they impacted research efforts in neurological diseases.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is Alzheimer disease and dementia.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 1, 2022.

Experts in sleep medicine evaluate the impact of narcolepsy on a patient’s quality of life and expand on which symptoms appear to be most debilitating.

Margaret Park, MD, defines typical signs and symptoms of narcolepsy and differentiates between the 2 main types of disease.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is headache and migraine.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 25, 2022.

Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of the last month, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

In addition to the moderating role of age and sex, investigators found that high-sensitivity C-reactive protein moderated some associations between OSA risk and attention and episodic memory.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is optic neuritis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has previously pointed to evidence showing that the sudden change from standard time to daylight saving time is associated with significant public health, safety risks, and circadian rhythm.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 18, 2022.

Future research is required to include EEG analyses of neurodiverse patient populations.

Using qualitative exploratory and quantitative validated questionnaires, investigators saw preparation and assessment time reduced by one-third, with a 60% increase in patient encounters to subspecialty services, compared with the period prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Investigators compared the effect of cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia alone, continuous positive airway pressure alone, and combined treatment.

At months 6, 9, and 12 of treatment with daridorexant—which was recently FDA-approved for insomnia—patients improved on several sleep measures, including subjective total sleep time and daytime functioning.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is sleep disorders.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 11, 2022.

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Seema Khosla, MD, FCCP, FAASM. [LISTEN TIME: 29 minutes]