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Treatment for Insomnia Can Reduce Paranoia and Hallucinations

posted by martyb on Saturday September 09 2017, @04:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-sleep-on-it dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(17)30328-0/fulltext?elsca1=tlpr

In the largest randomized control trial for mental health, researchers discovered a link from insomnia to paranoia and hallucinations. Successful treatment of insomnia cut paranoia and hallucinations by around half. While the researchers don't extend similar links as existing outside the studied population, the correlation is quite clear and strong that treatment of insomnia could lead to improvements in other mental health symptoms in other populations.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by lx on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:39AM (5 children)

    by lx (1915) on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:39AM (#565524)

    Strange how the medical profession has taken this long to investigate something that insomniacs have been saying forever.
    Apparently listening to your patients is the new hot thing in medicine.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:44AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:44AM (#565528) Journal

    Apparently listening to your patients is the new hot thing in medicine.

    It's just a fad.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:08AM (#565554)

    Apparently listening to your patients is the new hot thing in medicine.

    But... but... listen to us doctor, read our lips... 8 hours/day of sleep won't let all my personalities manifest enough and they'll become angry; I'm used with some of them being out to get me, but some may even come to get you.

  • (Score: 2) by Geezer on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:52AM

    by Geezer (511) on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:52AM (#565580)

    Gregory House said it best, albeit in a fictional setting.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY-WXYIiHWA [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @12:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @12:58PM (#565622)

    Where the the money come from to pay for this study with its deeply insightful and original discoveries?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @03:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @03:38PM (#565682)

      According to the paper, it comes from the Wellcome Trust, which is a private charity that provides money for medical studies, among other things. And as much as people make fun of studies like this, the fact is that a lot of insurance won't cover dead-obvious-can't-believe-people-actually-had-to-study-this, treatments because there is no "proof" of effectiveness.