MedPage Today (8/30, George) reports, “More than half the people surveyed in an online population study experienced serious sleep difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic, but certain individuals reported better sleep.” Speaking at the virtual SLEEP 2020, Rebecca Robillard, PhD, of the University of Ottawa, described “three distinct profiles of sleep-related behaviors…during the pandemic.”

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CNN (8/28, Thomas) reported experts wrote a letter published in the American Journal of Psychiatry arguing that the coronavirus pandemic has had a disproportionately large impact on people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and that this population needs special support during the pandemic. The letter’s authors wrote, “People with intellectual and developmental disabilities were disproportionately isolated prior to the pandemic, and the intensification of that isolation stands only to weaken the community for all citizens.”

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— “Covid-19 has disproportionately impacted those living with developmental disabilities, “Naomi Thomas, CNN, August 30, 2020

HealthDay (8/30, Preidt) reports researchers found that older Americans with depression have shown “resilience to the stress of physical distancing and isolation.” The findings were published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

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— “Seniors With Depression Show Resilience in Face of Pandemic, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, August 30, 2020

Healio (8/26, Ernst) reports, “Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures have a standardized mortality ratio 2.5 times greater than the general population and die at a rate similar to patients with drug-resistant epilepsy,” investigators concluded after examining “mortality rates among patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures who were admitted for video-EEG monitoring.” The findings of the 5,508-patient study were published online in the journal Neurology.

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— “Diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures has ‘implications for future mortality’, “Julia Ernst, Healio, August 26, 2020

Healio (8/27, Miller) reports, “Almost 20% of young men in the United States are perpetrators of intimate partner violence, or IPV, and more than a quarter are victims of it,” investigators concluded after examining “responses from a cross-sectional, nationally representative online survey of 916 men aged 18 to 35 years.” What’s more, the survey revealed that just “13% of the survey’s respondents said a physician had asked them if they had ever been a victim of IPV.” The findings were published in the July issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.

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— “Survey: Physicians miss opportunities to discuss partner violence with men, “Janel Miller, Healio, August 27, 2020