Innovative Neuroscience to Improve Treatment of Sleep Disturbances for Prevention of Depression and Anxiety

失眠患者的睡眠受到干扰，症状与抑郁症和焦虑症患者相似。治疗方法远非最佳，而且自本世纪初以来没有取得进展。我的开创性工作确定了有抑郁和焦虑风险的失眠患者，并揭示了一种针对睡眠紊乱来解决情绪困扰的潜在方法。现在，我的任务是了解为什么他们处于危险之中，并开发创新的治疗方法来降低他们患抑郁症和焦虑症的风险。

Insomnia patients have disturbed sleep and symptoms similar to people with depression and anxiety. Treatments are far from optimal and have not progressed since the beginning of the century. My pioneering work identified insomnia patients at risk of depression and anxiety and revealed a potential way of targeting disturbed sleep to resolve emotional distress. Now, my mission is to understand why they are at risk and develop innovative treatments that reduce their risk for depression and anxiety.