By Elizabeth Bernstein, Nov 6, 2024

Don’t steal from sleep.Many couples—especially those with young kids—fi t sex in wheneverthey can, which often means sacrifi cing sleep for intimacy. Steal time from something else,such as Netfl ix or social media, sleep specialists say. And try getting intimate earlier. “If there is an activity you really love doing, why would you leave it for the last thing of theday?” says Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist in Menlo Park, Calif.

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By Kristen Fisher, Oct 28, 2024

“The main idea behind sleep divorce is to try to optimize sleep for each partner. In our increasingly busy lives, we end up not getting enough sleep by default. The sleep quality we do get starts to count more than ever before. So it’s not surprising that people optimize sleep in any way possible, including eliminating any disruptions like a bed partner,” Alex Dimitriu, MD, double board-certified in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in Menlo Park, CA, told Sleepopolis.

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By Tene Goodwin, Oct 20, 2024

Turns out, there’s a close relationship between anxiety and insomnia. A 2022 clinical review¹ estimates that half of people with anxiety also struggle with sleep disturbances, and in turn, conditions like insomnia can make anxiety worse (talk about a vicious cycle). What’s more, says Alex Dimitriu, MD, a dual-board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist, the type of polyphasic sleep I was subsisting on (that is, short bouts of sleep throughout the day instead of one long period of sleep each night) can result in symptoms of sleep deprivation, including worsened memory and impulse control as well as heightened anxiety. Additionally, he notes that rapid eye movement or REM sleep—which is crucial for overall health and well-being—would not occur in shorter sleep windows or naps.

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By SingleCare Team,  Oct 3, 2024

“However, Viagra can lower blood pressure, and gabapentin can increase dizziness—these two effects together may be undesirable,” says Dr. Alex Dimitriu, MD, founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “Consider lower gabapentin and/or Viagra dosing if taken together, and make sure you can tolerate each separately first.”

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By Elizabeth Millard, Sep 27, 2024

Another medication already in use, clozapine, also works on muscarinic receptors but has significant side effects, adds Alex Dimitriu, M.D., a psychiatrist and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine in California. “The question has been whether focusing on these receptors in a different way could help in schizophrenia without the effects of clozapine, and KarXT attempts to do that,” he says.

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By Melissa Rudy, Sep 25, 2024

Although COVID has “come and gone to some degree,” Dr. Alex Dimitriu, sleep medicine specialist and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in California, noted that war and gun violence are on the rise. “This fits with my perception in my work as well, that ever since COVID, the world has caught a ‘fever,’” Dimitriu, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital. “With increased social and geopolitical unrest, we are hearing more violence in the news and certainly see its impact on sleep.”

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By Maggie Aime, Sep 20, 2024

“Cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia uses cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, and mindfulness, to treat insomnia, adds Alex Dimitriu, M.D., double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine.  Some people call CBT-I “sleep therapy” for short. Put simply, the “cognitive” part of CBT-I helps you change the thoughts that disrupt your sleep, like those late-night worries. The “behavioral” part focuses on building good sleep habits and eliminating the bad ones.

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