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Although cognitive behavioral therapy is an effective treatment for insomnia in the general population, it is not in the dialysis population who have “unique pathophysiologic considerations,” according to investigators. Insomnia affects half of patients on dialysis. It is tied with adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events and appears difficult to treat.
Examine why patients receiving hemodialysis did recover from insomnia when treated with Trazadone or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and trazodone had the same effect as doing nothing for mild to moderate insomnia in people on dialysis, a new study finds.
Trazadone and CBT are no more effective than placebo for improving insomnia among long-term dialysis patients, new research finds.
Both the differential diagnosis of parkinsonian syndromes and the prediction of gait dysfunction may eventually be improved by automated machine learning tools, two studies suggest.