"Our study shows that a 12- to 15-hour sleep can be harmful, and it's important to avoid overprescribing sedatives and use the lowest dose possible." "It's important to be mindful of how drugs that we prescribe to patients affect their health more broadly," he said. Too much sleep can have negative consequences on patients' SSD symptoms, says Ferrarelli. In addition, sedative medications that are used to manage SSD symptoms are known to alter sleep and extend the time that patients spend resting up to 15 hours per day. "Most people can benefit from better sleep hygiene and paying attention to their daily routines by incorporating activity and variety in their daily lives."Įffects of disrupted sleep have long been studied in the context of physical and mental health, and well-established research literature suggests that people suffering from SSD have trouble falling asleep and get poorer rest than people without underlying mental health conditions. "Regulating sleep and wake cycles is important for your overall health and our findings can also be extended to people without underlying mental health conditions," said associate professor of psychiatry and senior author of the study Fabio Ferrarelli, M.D., Ph.D. Researchers discovered that people with SSD who live in psychiatric facilities and those who manage their condition in outpatient settings both have irregular sleep patterns, dysregulated transitions between sleep and wake cycles, and excessively rigid daily routines that are predictive of worse SSD symptoms and are associated with lower quality of life.
Brain health: Schizophrenia patients' symptoms grow by disrupted sleep, wakefulness trends? Here's what study says (Shutterstock) Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry.
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