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Youngsters with ADHD often don’t receive best treatment

...these children a lot of what we call common-factors treatments: Eat better, sleep better, take over-the-counter supplements, reduce screen time," said lead study author Yair Bannett, MD, a developmental and...

What to do (and not do) when you win the Nobel Prize

...the announcement, and I did not remember everyone. Chu: Be prepared to be sleep-deprived for the next week. What's your best advice to early career researchers entering the field now?...

Protecting your health (and sanity) during wildfire season

...investing in one for each room. If that's not feasible, consider having a "clean-air room" where you can spend most of your time, including when you sleep. Keep the smoke...

Preventing kids’ head injuries: Tips from a concussion expert

...The signs, which can last up to a month, include headache, balance problems, problems thinking, visual disturbance, mood disruption and sleep impairment. For most of 2020, playgrounds were closed, and...

New approach effectively relieves chronic low back pain

...about their pain, such as its intensity and whether it disturbed their sleep. According to patient reporting, Darnall's course relieved pain as effectively as cognitive behavioral therapy and better than...

Attitude toward mistakes — and lack of self-care — harm physicians’ well-being

...said they often or always put off self-care because of time pressure, while only 15% of workers in other fields said the same. "It's necessary to defer sleep to be...

Neuroscientist’s book traverses the extremes of human behavior

...sleep, often next to my wife [Stanford Medicine associate professor of neurology Michelle Monje, MD, PhD] working on her laptop. Then I would get up early to make breakfasts and...

COVID-19 lab manager came to ‘where the fire is burning’

..."When I get home, I continue working -- because biology is 24/7," he said. "My phone is always ringing. I sleep with it beside my pillow. That's my life even...

Self-compassion is key to overcoming pandemic fatigue

...habits are mostly within your control. Focus on sleep: The pandemic has led to stressful circumstances can cause nighttime wakefulness. Consider taking a 20-minute midday nap or doing something relaxing...

I wrote a book about a scientist’s journey to save his desperately ill son

...sleep. Scientists estimate that the disease affects 20 million people worldwide. In my magazine article, also titled The Puzzle Solver, I wrote about Dafoe, how he traveled the world as...

“The team has risen to the challenge”: Nurse steps up during pandemic

...while also protecting against bringing the virus with them when the shift ended in the early morning, and they went home to sleep. "At first, I was absolutely terrified about...

Menstrual cycle more powerful than daily, weekly and seasonal cycles in command of mood, vital signs

...signs. There were, however, some exceptions. Productivity and sleep, for instance, were more heavily influenced by the weekly cycle. (Sleep went up on the weekends, while productivity went down.) The...

A sleep scientist’s legacy: Generations of well-rested students

...passed away at 91 last June. Known as the father of sleep medicine, he began teaching Sleep and Dreams in 1971. The course covers the physiology of sleep, sleep disorders,...

Excised tonsils aid study of COVID-19 vaccines, the flu and more

...tonsillectomies because their tonsils are blocking their air passages and disrupting sleep, or have become chronically infected or inflamed. But tonsils, when they're healthy, serve a grand purpose: As Davis...

Anxious? Here’s what you can do

...or job transitions. These situations can trigger symptoms -- changes in appetite, sleep or concentration, for example -- that make it difficult to function well during specific, anxiety-provoking times of...

Best of 2020: Stanford Medicine’s top podcasts

...program. Rafael Pelayo Stanford Medicine · Rafael Pelayo: Sleep in the time of coronavirus (2020) In our conversation, sleep specialist Rafael Pelayo, MD, talked about why sleep disruptions are inevitable...