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 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 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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By Leandra Beabout, Jan 27, 2025

“RLS is a surprisingly common cause of insomnia in my patients, many of whom did not even realize such a condition exists,” says Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double-board certified sleep medicine physician and psychiatrist, and the founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. The exact causes of RLS are unknown, but Dimitriu says genetics, dopamine dysregulation, and iron deficiency may play a role. Magnesium deficiency may also be a contributing factor.  “It can also be seen in certain medical situations like pregnancy or kidney disease,” he says.

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By Leandra Beabout, Jan 20, 2025

Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double-board-certified psychiatrist, sleep medicine physician, and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine, says that while there are no known interactions between lorazepam and trazodone, he considers it ideal to take one or the other—not both. He also says trazodone is usually preferred because it is “gentler” and safer for long-term use.

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By Maggie Aime, Jan 10, 2025

“Shift work sleep disorder is fundamentally caused by missing sleep at night,” Alex Dimitriu, M.D., double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine, tells Sleepopolis. The more your schedule differs from normal nighttime sleep, the harder it gets, especially if your shifts keep changing, he explains. (4) For example, working an evening shift might be more manageable than an overnight shift or having your schedule flip-flop between day and night shifts every few days. 

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By Leandra Beabout, Dec 31, 2024

“In some cases, I will prescribe Vyvanse in the morning with a small lower dose of Adderall around noontime for people who need the benefit of the medication to last longer into the day,” says Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine physician and the founder of  Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “In more rare cases, I will prescribe a low dose of Adderall in the morning in addition to Vyvanse for people who need more of an effect earlier on in the day.”

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