For more information, visit the fellowship page. Fellows will evaluate and manage patients with a wide variety of sleep disorders. Trainees in the Sleep Medicine Division will interface with clinicians and researchers across all neurology sub-specialties as well as faculty in other departments.Īn ACGME-accredited fellowship in sleep medicine is available. The relationship between sleep apnea and strokeįor more details about current areas of research on sleep disorders, visit the division’s research page.Descriptive and interventional studies in autism and developmental disabilities.1 Select agents that may contribute to or worsen insomnia are listed in Figure 1.

1 Medications to treat a chronic or acute illness can cause insomnia, or if discontinued abruptly, can contribute to insomnia. Cognitive behavioral therapy in insomnia Many common herbal supplements that may be associated with difficulty sleeping are ephedra, ginseng, and St.Highlights of current areas of research include: Researchers regularly perform overnight polysomnograms, including 21-channel EEG studies, multiple sleep latency tests, and related procedures on patients with a wide variety of sleep disorders and coexisting neurological disorders. Investigators from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to add sleep studies into their research protocols, which can be performed in a prospective fashion on a specific cohort of patients. Given the close relationship between sleep medicine and the other subspecialties of neurology, the studies undertaken by the Vanderbilt Sleep Medicine Division facilitate interdisciplinary research in sleep medicine. The Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and is a designated Restless Leg Syndrome Center of Excellence. The breadth and depth of faculty allows for clinical research to intersect with nearly any other discipline, including neurology, psychology, internal medicine, and others. affect sleep, and conduct integrative trials and interventional studies accordingly. Clinicians, researchers, and educators invest themselves in studying how autism, Down syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, strokes, etc. The division has a particular interest in the relationship between sleep and various developmental disabilities, neurologic disorders, or other conditions. In January 2022, the FDA approved a new insomnia medication called daridorexant (Quviviq). But many medications are better for helping you fall asleep than helping you stay asleep.

And there are many different sleep aids available. The overarching clinical goal of the Sleep Medicine Division is to improve daytime functioning and quality of life of patients, particularly those also afflicted with other disorders. Medications are one way to treat insomnia.

Research and treatment often takes place in the Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center's unique hotel-based sleep labs. With almost 100 different sleep disorders to understand and treat, VUMC’s Sleep Medicine Divison prides itself on providing expertise, training and research on this wide array of sleep disorders across the lifespan. The Division of Sleep Medicine focuses on a comprehensive approach to sleep disorders.

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