Sleep and Psychosis: Translating Research into Clinical Recommendations
Drs. Seo Ho (Michael) Song & Tony Cunningham
Sleep disruption is highly prevalent among individuals with psychosis and is increasingly recognized as a contributor to symptom severity, emotional distress, and functional impairment. This talk will summarize relevant sleep research in psychosis and focus on practical takeaways for clinicians, including how to assess sleep concerns and provide concrete behavioral recommendations.
Learning Objectives:
Review sleep disruptions in schizophrenia.
Understand CBTi as a method to resynchronize sleep homeostasis.
Understand neuromodulation as a way to optimize sleep physiology.
Tony is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition (CfSC) and the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic in the Psychiatry Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). Tony received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, completed his clinical internship at the VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System, and is licensed to practice clinical psychology in the state of Massachusetts. Tony's primary research focus is understanding the role of sleep and sleep loss in emotion and memory processing, and how knowledge of these systems can be applied to both healthy and clinical populations. In choosing to pursue clinical training within cognitive neuroscience labs, Tony's background has prepared him to carve a niche at the intersection between neuroscience and clinical practice. His long-term research goal is to understand changes in underlying brain networks responsible for emotional processing following sleep loss and translate this knowledge into the development of novel and effective therapeutic interventions.
Michael is an Instructor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of the CfSC and Staff Psychiatrist at the Division of Interventional Psychiatry at BIDMC and HMS. Michael received his DPhil (Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) and MD-MBA from the University of Oxford and Dartmouth College, respectively. Michael is also a recent graduate of the BIDMC Psychiatry Residency Training Program and the inaugural research track resident of said program. Michael and Tony’s interests align in the use of sleep as an optimizable platform to improve mental wellbeing. Michael’s work lies at the interface between sleep, neuromodulation, and psychiatry. Michael’s current research uses non-invasive brain stimulation—specifically, transcranial electrical stimulation—to influence sleep physiology.
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