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Sleeping at the wrong temperature can keep you tossing and turning all night, preventing a good night’s rest. “Temperature regulation is an important part of maintaining healthy and restful sleep throughout the night,” says Dr. Michael Grandner, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Given that two-thirds of patients treated for a major depressive episode will fail to achieve remission of symptoms after 2 or more treatment trials of first-line antidepressants, the probability of remission will further decrease with subsequent medication trials. Assistant Professor Rohit Madan shares his research on this subject.