By Vanessa Wolosz Feb 15, 2022
“People are increasingly using widgets, spinners and other items to fiddle with to either improve focus and restlessness in ADHD and possibly also to relieve anxiety and stress,” explains Dr. Dimitriu. “I have seen an increased use of such products in the past several years.”
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February 14, 2022 Dr. Dimitriu was published in Psychology Today in an article titled:
ADHD: All About Power, Paradox, and Yes Pain, Too
Can knowledge of how our ancestors slept truly lead us to a life of more natural—and healthy —sleeping patterns?
Authors on the Internet have been exploring that possibility, writing a spate of recent articles indicating how the ancients, as far back as early Greece, slept in segmented or “divided” phases, which were seemingly in line with human circadian rhythm. Indeed, one online article references the Odyssey, written in the 8th or 7th century BC, in which Homer reportedly mentions the “first sleep.”
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By Eddie Kim, Feb 8, 2022
“Marijuana is a particularly touchy subject because unlike alcohol, or even cocaine, it can linger in the body for weeks. My patients are often forthcoming about marijuana use, and I rarely will request drug testing. With a good therapeutic relationship and trust, many people are often willing to reduce use on their own, recognizing that this is a form of self-medication,” Dimitriu says. “I very rarely will cease working with a patient over a ‘failed drug test,’ and rather, do my best to help from a harm-reduction approach.”
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By Dominique Michelle Astorino, Feb 08, 2022
So, deep breathing can trigger your parasympathetic nervous system and, in turn, help set up a conducive environment for sleep. But that’s not all it can do to help you score some shut-eye. “If your goal is to fall asleep, focusing on the breath is also better than focusing on the important meetings you may have the next day,” says psychiatrist and sleep physician Alex Dimitriu, M.D., founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine.
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By Vanessa Caceres, Feb. 4, 2022
Valerian is a plant originally from Asia and Europe, although it’s now also grown in North America. Valerian root has been used throughout time for its calming properties, and has earned the nickname “nature’s Valium,” says Dr. Alex Dimitriu, who’s double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and the founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in Menlo Park, California.
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By Ann Pietrangelo, Feb 2, 2022
“This was a great review study, comprised of 137 prior studies,” Dr. Alex Dimitriu, founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in Menlo Park, California, told Healthline. “The results consistently favored the benefit of long-acting injectable antipsychotics in reducing the rate of hospitalization or relapse,” added Dimitriu, who is double board certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine.
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By Emily Laurence, FEB 2, 2022
Dr. Alex Dimitriu, MD, a dual board-certified psychiatrist and sleep doctor, says there are many ways to activate the vagus nerve, which will then send a body-wide signal that it’s time to relax. One popular way, he says, is deep breathing. “Breathing deeply from your diaphragm so your stomach expands outward is one very common way to activate the vagus nerve,” he says.
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Mission. To reduce the global burden of migraine.
Summit begins Mar 16, 2022. Dr. Dimitriu to be interviewed about Learning How to Sleep Better with Migraine.
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By Ryan Castillo, January 31, 2022
It’s increasingly hard these days to find LED bulbs that are the color of candles or sunset (>3000k is like a blue sky, and 2200k is hard to find), but in reality, it’s those lights that are more amber hues that help our bodies realize it’s the evening and time for sleep. Find the warmest dimmable bulbs you can, and consider blackout shades. Good sleep requires a cool, dark bedroom, so do your best to create one. – Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine
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By Katie Robinson, Jan 30, 2022
Due to the light, we might be naturally more inclined to stay up late—and therefore, go to bed later or have a rough night of sleep. According to Alex Dimitriu, MD, and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine, “our sleeping patterns (as well as those of animals and plants) are quite closely tied to light—especially in the mornings and evenings.” Because of that, “a bright glowing moon can certainly prolong our evenings and shorten sleep.”
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By Heidi Borst, Jan 28, 2022
What Are the Four Stages of Piaget’s Cognitive Development? Piaget studied how children develop mental models for the world around them as they grow, 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 Menlo Park, California. “He was interested not in the information or knowledge acquired, but the structures and mental frameworks into which that knowledge could be applied,” says Dr. Dimitriu.
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January 27, 2022 — Dr. Alex Dimitriu, Founder of the Menlo Park Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine clinic, was interviewed by Insider for the article, “The 4 best sunrise alarm clocks for waking up gently in 2022.”
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By Dominique Michelle Astorino Jan 24, 2022
“Sleep quantity is as important as sleep quality,” says Alex Dimitriu, M.D., double board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine physician and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. And while many substances (looking at you, wine) might help you feel sleepy, they can actually reduce your deep and REM sleep — two stages of sleep that are particularly beneficial to your brain and body’s overall wellbeing. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with CBD. “Some recent research has suggested that CBD may be beneficial to sleep, without negatively impacting sleep architecture [aka what determines the quality and restorative ability of sleep],” according to Dr. Dimitriu.
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By Millie Hurst, Jan 23, 2022
In a similar vein, a 2021 study by cpap.com revealed self-confessed messy people got more sleep than tidy people, but that tidier people enjoyed a higher quality of sleep. Clean people were twice as likely to report being happy with their sleep. Dr Alex Dimitriu sleep expert and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine adds that there is ‘some evidence that clutter (as well as the procrastination that can lead to clutter) leads to elevated stress hormones, and reduced overall life satisfaction. ‘Neither the annoyance with clutter, nor the elevated stress hormones it can cause, are good for sleep,’ Dr Dimitriu says. But cluttercore-inspired interior design ideas and just being messy and disorganized are two very, very separate things.
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By Sarah Bradley, Jan. 20, 2022
While any SSRI or SNRI can cause discontinuation syndrome, the SNRI Effexor (venlafaxine) can be one of the trickiest to wean off, says psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist Alex Dimitriu, MD, founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “Venlafaxine is an excellent medication, but missed doses can give people ‘brain zaps’ and quick feelings of vertigo, which I’ve called ‘vestibular jitters,’” Dr. Dimitriu explains. “These go away, fortunately, but it can make it hard to stop venlafaxine in particular.”
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