Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0277
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2167-0277
+44 1478 350008
Baland Jalal
Center for Brain & Cognition, University of California at San Diego, USA.
Dr Baland Jalal's research interest is neuropsychiatry, with a focus on how technology (e.g., smartphone apps) and innovative treatments can make psychiatry more transportable and accessible (the theme of his PhD done at Cambridge University - with research partly completed at Harvard). Dr Jalal has done research on sleep paralysis around the world (USA, Denmark, Egypt, Italy, Turkey and Poland). He designed one of the first ever treatments for sleep paralysis called Meditation-Relaxation Therapy (MR Therapy).
His reaserch interest on changes in sleep, subjective insomnia is often mediated by physical ailments and disorders associated with old age [4]. In the article under discussion, the age range of the mean ages of the 9 RCTs ranged from 50-77 years, with an overall mean of 63.6 years, which is quite high; likewise, 5 out of the 9 RCTs were composed of elderly individuals with physical disorders (including fibromyalgia, cerebrovascular disorder, and heart failure).