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Reading of the Week: I Can’t Sleep – Insomnia, Part II of II

June 16, 2016 /

From the Editor

It’s one of the most common patient complaints: I can’t sleep.

What many of our patients aspire to…

Insomnia affects 6 to 10% of the population. It’s a common problem – and often chronic. But are we mishandling insomnia?

In a two-part, two-week series, we look at the latest in insomnia research.

Last week. Fewer Pills, More Therapy. The new Clinical Practice Guidelines.

This week. Insomnia, Is There an App for That? The GoodNight Study.

This week, turning to a new paper from The Lancet Psychiatry, we consider an online insomnia program to prevent depression relapse.

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Reading of the Week: Big Study on a Big Problem: Stigma & Mental Health, and More

March 31, 2016 /

From the Editor

Stigma. Suicide prevention.

This week we consider these weighty topics with two excellent papers.

The first, written by Patten et al., looks at the perception of stigma in those receiving mental health care in Canada. The second is a “viewpoint” that asks what we need to do to reduce suicide rates – which, across the West, has not decreased in the past decade.

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