35 min
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with Dr. Jason Ellis The Snooze Button
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- Mental Health
Dr. Jason Ellis is regarded as one of the heavyweights of sleep science, particularly when it comes to his work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, or CBT-I.
In this episode, we talk about Jay's book, The One Week Insomnia Cure, and how a quick hit of CBT-I worked in 73% of patients with acute insomnia.
It really is a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion that includes everything from melatonin to med school, and what "the system" can do to make things better.
Some key takeaways: “I think that [the COVID-19 pandemic] is actually going to create a lot of opportunities for sleep and sleep funding in the future. In the general population at any given time point, a snapshot of how many people might have acute insomnia works out to about 8% of the population. When I’ve extrapolated the data from Italy and from China, it looks like it’s going to be about 45%. So we’re going to see a huge uptake in acute insomnia. And I think that that’s going to drive more funding in the future.”
“There is actually one study which demonstrates that CBT-I does decrease the symptom profile of RLS/PLMD. Now, what that study showed was, it’s not as if it stops somebody from having those periodic limb movements. But what it does do is it keeps them asleep during that time. And so one of the things [CBT-I] does is it deepens sleep. And if you deepen sleep enough, even somebody who’s in chronic pain will wake up a lot less. That’s why we see CBT-I works quite nicely in lots of pain conditions. And this one study did demonstrate that although people would have those arousals, they wouldn’t be woken up by them. So CBT-I is an option.”
“Certainly in the UK, the amount of teaching in the area of sleep is minimal. I think it works out something like seven minutes overall.”
LINKAPALOOZA
Jay's book, The One Week Insomnia Cure on Amazon
Jay's study about quick-hit CBT-I and acute insomnia
Dr. Jason Ellis is regarded as one of the heavyweights of sleep science, particularly when it comes to his work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, or CBT-I.
In this episode, we talk about Jay's book, The One Week Insomnia Cure, and how a quick hit of CBT-I worked in 73% of patients with acute insomnia.
It really is a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion that includes everything from melatonin to med school, and what "the system" can do to make things better.
Some key takeaways: “I think that [the COVID-19 pandemic] is actually going to create a lot of opportunities for sleep and sleep funding in the future. In the general population at any given time point, a snapshot of how many people might have acute insomnia works out to about 8% of the population. When I’ve extrapolated the data from Italy and from China, it looks like it’s going to be about 45%. So we’re going to see a huge uptake in acute insomnia. And I think that that’s going to drive more funding in the future.”
“There is actually one study which demonstrates that CBT-I does decrease the symptom profile of RLS/PLMD. Now, what that study showed was, it’s not as if it stops somebody from having those periodic limb movements. But what it does do is it keeps them asleep during that time. And so one of the things [CBT-I] does is it deepens sleep. And if you deepen sleep enough, even somebody who’s in chronic pain will wake up a lot less. That’s why we see CBT-I works quite nicely in lots of pain conditions. And this one study did demonstrate that although people would have those arousals, they wouldn’t be woken up by them. So CBT-I is an option.”
“Certainly in the UK, the amount of teaching in the area of sleep is minimal. I think it works out something like seven minutes overall.”
LINKAPALOOZA
Jay's book, The One Week Insomnia Cure on Amazon
Jay's study about quick-hit CBT-I and acute insomnia
35 min