SleepSpace

We just got published in the journal Contemporary Clinical Trials! I'm excited to share our novel methodology of administering enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. This new technique could be a more effective way to treat insomnia and it could also potentially reduce conversion to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Instead of trying to replace the clinician, the goal was to develop new tools to augment conventional clinical practice. More to come soon regarding the outcome of our study and to see if our intervention worked. You can check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dnz_wPnd A special thanks to the The National Institutes of Health for making this research and technology possible. I'd also like thank our research collaborators at Penn State University and the University of Arizona. Please reach out to me if you are interested in using the SleepSpace platform. #SleepScience #SleepResearch #ClinicalTrials #SleepSpace #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics

Can Smart Lights Improve Your Sleep Quality? This is the question we sought to answer in a research collaboration that SleepSpace conducted with LIFX Smart Bulbs and Google Home Assistant. We investigated whether dimming your lights with a voice command at night and brightening them in the morning improved perceived sleep quality. We compared this to a sham condition where the lights also changed, but not in the ideal way for sleep. We were excited to find that the intervention seemed to work! People thought they slept better on a validated survey when they used the smart light intervention. This is one of the first studies to show that light can be used to improve sleep. While technology often does more harm than good when it comes to our sleep quality, if we design it in the right way - it doesn't have to be this way. You can try the intervention today by downloading SleepSpace.com, and purchasing a LIFX bulb. SleepSpace will automatically integrate with the lights such that sound and light change at your wind down and wake up times. Read more details of the study below. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ewUfrMq9 #sleepresearch #smartlight #smarthome #sleepscience #sleephealth

I had a blast on today's podcast episode talking to Daniel Gartenberg PhD, the founder and CEO of the SleepSpace app. I normally interview a lot of patients, doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals working in #sleepapnea Dan is a scientist looking at ways we can improve sleep apnea diagnosis and #sleepapneatreatment options - especially about how to spot different phenotypes and identify treatment options for them. Sometimes it takes a different perspective to bring about big change. Check out the episode here: https://lnkd.in/et3rymEb or search "Sleep Apnea Stories" on your favorite podcast app!

After tracking my sleep on consumer wearables for the past 15 years, I started to notice a disturbing pattern... My sleep quality began to get significantly worse, with more brief awakenings, less REM, and less deep sleep. This began shortly after quarantine ended and I had gained ~15 extra pounds. It also corresponded to when my wife started to complain about my snoring. Introducing Wesper, an FDA approved device to diagnose sleep apnea: 1) It was time to level up my sleep tracking with a device that can be used by doctors to diagnose sleep apnea from the comfort of my home.  2) All it takes is wearing a device on my finger and two patches on my belly over 3-nights. 3) Wesper then connects you with a sleep coach who gives you tailored feedback and can recommend a doctor that uses the data to diagnose you for sleep apnea, all without going into a sleep lab. This experience with Wesper was like a dream come true. In this tutorial, I use the system over 3-nights to evaluate my breathing. I also complete the process of getting myself diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. Uniquely, the device is rechargeable so I can continuously monitor my progress and determine when treatment options work. Continue following my journey to see how I effectively treat my recent case of mild sleep apnea. Getting this treated is extremely important to me since disrupted breathing at night is linked to every chronic disease - especially hypertension and cardiovascular disease. https://lnkd.in/ezMdqMTi Try Wesper to get diagnosed with sleep apnea from your home and to continuously monitor your progress. Get 10% off with code SLEEPSPACE23 at checkout! #sleepapnea #sleepapneatreatment #sleepawareness #sleephealth #sleepdoctor #fdaapproved

Are you a sleep coach or specialist? Check this out! In this tutorial I describes how to use SleepSpace to view your client's sleep data from wearables, nearables, and the consensus sleep diary. By starting the falling asleep and staying asleep program, your clients will get 6-weeks of tailored content for this issue that was designed from a clinical trial our research team is currently running through a collaboration with the National Institute of Aging, Penn State, and the University of Arizona. Every day for 6-weeks your clients will get a new task and educational content based on cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. They will be instructed to start a sleep journey, which are structured sounds to help them wind down, to block out noise pollution (with pink noise or white noise), and to wake up at the right time. Users can receive notifications based on the bedtime goal and wake up goal that you set. They can additionally train their relaxation muscle with a variety of relaxation techniques found in the app. Consensus sleep diary In addition to tracking sleep from the SleepSpace Smart Bed nearable sensor or wearables like Oura and Whoop, your clients will also be able to enter their perceptions of sleep in the consensus sleep diary. By sending your clients an email requesting access to their data, you can view all of their wearable/nearable data and their perceptions of sleep. You can easily see important sleep statistics like sleep onset latency, wake after sleep onset (WASO), sleep efficiency, and when the user went to bed and woke up. You can also exclude data if it is not representative of the night of sleep. Give it to your clients for free for 30 days Another perk to being a SleepSpace coach is that you will get a special link where you can give the software away to your clients for FREE. This helps improve the value of your practice by giving away this additional tool. For more information see: https://lnkd.in/ecNAz7_3... One more thing! As a coach, you also get a personal subscription to SleepSpace! #collaboration #sleephealth #circadianrhythm #sleepdiary #wearables #nearables #sleepai #ai https://lnkd.in/eiCx4f5D