David F. Dinges, MS, MA, PhD, on the Cognitive Effect of Sleep Medications After Emergent Awakenings

In this podcast, David F. Dinges, MS, MA, PhD, talks about his latest research on the cognitive effects of 2 well-known and widely used sleep medications after emergent awakenings. This research was performed in NASA astronauts and personnel.

David F. Dinges, MS, MA, PhD, is a professor and director of the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, the chief of the Division of Sleep & Chronobiology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. You can read his research here. 

Reference:

Dinges DF, Basner M, Ecker AJ, Baskin P, Johnston SL. Effects of zolpidem and zaleplon on cognitive performance after emergent morning awakenings at Tmax: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Sleep. 2019;42(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsy258.