New FDA Approved Device for Insomnia May be More Effective Than Drugs
Medscape reported that the FDA provided clearance for an insomnia reducing device called the Cereve Sleep System to be sold in the U.S. It's design suggests it could have application for some people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM).
Currently sleeping pills are the treatment of choice for most of the 55 million people in the U.S. with insomnia but sleeping pills tend to diminish alertness and can have other side effects.
It's inventor, Eric Nofzinger, M.D., a board-certified sleep physician and published researcher, Nofzinger produced a hypothesis paper
"A Neurological Model of Insomnia" that used brain imaging studies to explain insomnia neurologically. Nofziner's model inwas different in that it didn't focus on psychological-behavioral issues as most models of insomnia do but. He posited that persistent activation of neural structures that produce "wake-like" states were responsible...
