By Khendra Cherry, Apr 7, 2025
According to Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a double board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist, sleep and eczema have a bidirectional relationship. “Sleep and eczema are closely linked, and one can feed off of the other,” he explains.
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By Sian Ferguson, Mar 27, 2025
To learn more, I spoke with Alex Dimitriu, MD, double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. Dimitriu says that both napping and NSDR can be helpful, but they fulfill different needs. “For someone sleep deprived, a nap may be best,” he explains. “For someone busy and stressed out, and adequately rested, a moment to introspect and quiet all the inputs can also be a precious and rejuvenating experience.” NSDR, while refreshing, can’t really make up for lost sleep. As Dimitriu says, “Silence is golden. But it is not sleep.”
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By Erica Sweeney, Mar 26, 2025
But routines should be personal and tailored to your needs and lifestyle, says Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a psychiatrist and sleep medicine physician and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. There’s no “secret sauce” for morning habits that will automatically help you become like someone you admire. Videos like Hall’s may be fun to watch, but Dimitriu urges taking them with “a grain of salt.”
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By Brianna Graham, Mar 26, 2025
“VMAT-2 inhibitors are effective in reducing TD symptoms, but caution is needed in older adults due to potential side effects like gait disturbances,” says Alex Dimitriu, MD, in an interview with Physician’s Weekly.
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By Lo Styx, Mar 25, 2025
To determine the best medication fit for his patients, psychiatrist Alex Dimitriu, MD, groups symptoms of anxiety into two categories. “I always ask my patients if they feel anxiety more in the mind—rumination, catastrophic thoughts, worry—or the body—racing heart, tight chest, shortness of breath, tremor,” Dimitriu says. “More globally it should be recognized that either beta blockers or other medication such as Xanax or Klonopin are patches. If someone needs a patch too often, it might be better to take something that works all the time, usually SSRIs.”
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By Claire Wolters, Mar 24, 2025
“The role of the therapist during the bilateral movement processing is similar to a music conductor working with an improvisation,” says Shiva Wilson, a psychotherapist with Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in Menlo Park, California. “The clinician’s ability to observe the physical cues of the client is an important skill.”
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By Lindsey Lanquist, Mar 23, 2025
“Sleep is like a bank account, and it takes time to build up and time to deplete,” says Alex Dimitriu, MD, founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “Chronic sleep deprivation builds up to moodiness, depression, irritability, more anxiety, less impulse control … and worse, memory.”
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By Brianna Graham, Mar 12, 2025
The Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) is the gold standard for monitoring TD symptoms. It is recommended to screen patients at the start of antipsychotic treatment, annually for most patients, and every six months for high-risk groups, including older adults and those on FGAs. In addition, Alex Dimitriu, MD, advises clinicians to “regularly review medications for TD potential by checking for dopamine-blocking agents.”
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By Caitlin Pagan, Mar 7, 2025
Bright lights, interactive gadgets like smartphones, arguments, and problem-solving are all terrible for falling asleep, according to Alex Dimitriu, MD, a dual board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist based in California. “Even if you do manage to fall asleep, sleep will be lighter as the brain just can’t slow down that fast,” Dimitriu told Verywell in an email.
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By Brianna Graham, Feb 26, 2025
What is Tardive Dyskinesia? TD is a hyperkinetic movement disorder resulting from long-term use of dopamine receptor–blocking agents commonly found in antipsychotic medications. “TD typically presents after long-term use of dopamine-blocking medications but can also appear early in the treatment course, sometimes within the first month,” says psychiatrist Alex Dimitriu, MD, in an interview with Physician’s Weekly. TD presents as involuntary, rhythmic, and stereotyped muscle movements, predominantly affecting the face and tongue but also extending to the limbs and trunk.
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By Reda Wigle, Feb 21, 2025
Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a psychiatrist and sleep doctor based in California, previously told The Post that a cold room — between 60 and 67 degrees — is best for getting to and staying asleep. When your body temperature drops, it signals it’s time to slow down. In-kind, and in the nude, “sleeping naked can make it easier for the body to cool off naturally during the night, thus promoting deeper sleep,” Dimitriu said. “When our bodies can cool off at night, we enter deeper stages of sleep (slow wave sleep) — which is why sleeping in a cooler environment is important.”
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By Jenn Sinrich, Feb 14, 2025
Insufficient sleep also causes cortisol—the stress hormone—to go into overdrive, which keeps your body stuck in high-alert mode, making you feel more anxious, irritable, and generally on edge, according to Alex Dimitriu, M.D., a physician double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “Without proper rest, cognitive processes like memory, decision-making, and reaction time slow down, which explains why sleep-deprived individuals often struggle to focus, feel emotionally unstable, and experience increased sensitivity to stress,” he says.
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By Mara Santilli, Feb 12, 2025
“Idiopathic hypersomnia is a very challenging diagnosis, and basically it is a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning almost everything has to be ruled out first, including narcolepsy, before the diagnosis can be made,” says Alex Dimitriu, M.D., who is double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and the founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in the San Francisco Bay area.
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By Macy Alcido, Jan 29, 2025
The risk of serotonin syndrome intensifies when drugs designed to boost serotonin production are taken together, such as Lexapro and St. John’s wort, says Alex Dimitriu, M.D., a dual board-certified specialist in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. St. John’s wort works like a natural SSRI, increasing serotonin levels, notes Dr. Dimitriu. When the herbal supplement is taken alongside Lexapro, individuals might have too much serotonin in their systems and experience serotonin syndrome, he explains.
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By Reda Wigle, Jan 29, 2025
His advice echoes that of other sleep experts, such as Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a psychiatrist and sleep doctor based in California. He previously told The Post that a cold room — between 60 and 67 degrees — is best for sleeping.
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