What is it about?
Measures of sleep-wake activity have clinical utility for differential diagnosis and treatment planning, especially in patients with co-occuring psychiatric, medical, and neurologic disorders. As such, sleep-wake biomarkers provide a window into brain health and a useful paradigm for psychiatric practice.
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Why is it important?
Sleep-wake biomarkers provide a useful paradigm for personalizing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment planning. They go beyond the impact of biomarkers in other parts of psychiatry, which generally remain research tools but not yet aids to clinical practice
Perspectives
A century ago Sigmund Freud wrote that dreams provide the royal road to the unconscious. Now, the clinical neuroscience of sleep medicine provides a clinically useful window into brain health and prognosis.
Charles F Reynolds III
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System
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This page is a summary of: Biomarkers in DSM-5 Sleep-Wake Disorders: A Useful Paradigm for Psychiatry?, FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, April 2018, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.focus.20170040.
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