Podcast

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

05/14/2019

 

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.

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