Need a good night's sleep? Try changing how you think about it

Our hectic modern lives can often leave us feeling sleep-deprived, but what if much of a good night's sleep was down to our state of mind?

Interviewed and written by Amanda Ruggeri for BBC Future 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241014-need-a-good-nights-sleep-trying-changing-how-you-think-about-it

Congrats to Michaela and Monisha for being successfully vote to be part of hte ESRS early career network committee! Great to have your energy and new perspective represented in our profession.

Professor Tang addresses the International Summit on Chronic Insomnia Disorder organised by Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva. Her talk will focus on cognitive models of insomnia.

Find out more our thinking on the importance of sleep, in shifting the chronic pain treatment paradigm from tissue- and disease-based approach to multimodal lifestyle interventions. See our Editorial appearing in the Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy, led by Prof Dr Jo Nijs at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

A mini review led by Dr. Amber Tout is now published in Frontiers in Sleep. We reviewed a variety of strategies that have been employed to help manage the impacts of shift work on sleep, including: CBT-i, adjusting shift schedules, controlled light exposure, sleep hygiene education, planned napping, caffeine consumption, and mind-body interventions (e.g., yogic relaxation).

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsle.2024.1343393/full