For many people, COVID-19 isn't just about the acute illness. Once the acute symptoms have settled they are left with ongoing fatigue and a range of other symptoms. To understand long COVID and what can be done to help manage symptoms, we speak with Nathan Butler (exercise physiologist) of Active Health Clinic.

Dr Moira Junge (Health Psychologist) and Dr David Cunnington (Sleep Physician) host the monthly podcast, Sleep Talk - Talking all things sleep.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 21:10 Theme - Long COVID
• 21:10 - 21:48 Clinical Tip
• 21:48 - 26:18 Pick of the Month
• 26:18 - 27:36 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: 

• Sleep deprivation

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Active Health Clinic
• sheets.html">Sleep Health Foundation - fact sheets
• SleepHub post on long COVID
• Permanent daylight saving time - US Senate vote
• Daylight saving time - podcast
• We know CBT-I works, now what?
• Digital CBT-I - systematic review and network meta-analysis
• CBT-I: time to make it accessible - editorial

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With daylight saving time ending this weekend in Australia, is it time to re-consider daylight saving? Prof Till Roenneberg discusses the pros and cons of daylight saving time.

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Dr Moira Junge, CEO of the Sleep Health Foundation talks about sleep-day.html">World Sleep Day and promoting healthy sleep. This year's theme for World Sleep Day is 'Quality Sleep, Sound Mind, Happy World'. Tap in to the power of sleep for maintaining good mental health, and help promote quality sleep amongst your family, friends and work colleagues.

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• Sleep Health Foundation
• World Sleep Day - global site

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Sleep problems are a common symptom for people with borderline personality disorder. Symptoms include insomnia, excessive sleepiness and fatigue, vivid and distressing dreams. To better understand borderline personality disorder, how it impacts sleep and treatment approaches, we spoke with Ass Prof Blaise Aguirre, child and adolescent psychiatrist from McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 27:04 Theme - Boderline Personality Disorder
• 27:04 - 28:04 Clinical Tip
• 28:04 - 31:59 Pick of the Month
• 31:59 - 33:42 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: 

• Long COVID

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Blaise Aguirre's Bio
• The application of mindfulness in treatment of borderline personality disorder – Video
• Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder - Book
• DBT for Dummies - Book
• Overcoming Insomnia - Book
• Stepped care for insomnia - Journal article
• Philips CPAP product defect - Philips website

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Sleeping well requires more than just laying down at night. Many broader factors impact on sleep such as working hours, the neighbourhood we live in, financial and family stability, race and gender. To better understand the interaction between social factors we spoke with Assoc Prof Dustin Duncan, a social and spatial epidemiologist from Columbia University, New York.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 22:58 Theme - Social Factors and Sleep
• 22:58 - 24:14 Clinical Tip
• 24:14 - 28:07Pick of the Month
• 28:07 - 29:55 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: 

• Borderline Personality Disorder

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Dustin Duncan's Bio
• The Social Epidemiology of Sleep - Book
• Inside your dreamscape - Essay - Aeon
• Lucid Dreaming - Podcast
• Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot - Journal article
• sleep-hero-award.html">Emerging Sleep Hero award 2021

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People who have perfectionistic behaviours are at higher risk of developing sleep problems. Why is this the case and what can be done about it? To understand all about perfectionism and it's relationship with sleep we spoke with Dr Jennifer Kemp, Clinical Psychologist, trainer and author of ACT Workbook for Perfectionism.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 29:28 Theme - Perfectionism
• 29:28 - 31:32 Clinical Tip
• 31:32 - 34:53 Pick of the Month
• 34:53 - 36:20 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: 

• Is sleep a luxury? Social determinants of sleep.

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Jennifer Kemp's website
• ACT Workbook for Perfectionism
• Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale - Brief
• Perfectionism as a trans diagnostic process: a clinical review
• compassion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ong2019.pdf">The role of psychological inflexibility and self-compassion in ACT for clinical perfectionism
• A randomized controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy for clinical perfectionism
• Workbook on perfectionism - Government of Western Australia
• This Way Up
• The application of mindfulness in treatment of borderline personality disorder - Video
• Perfectionism and insomnia in adolescents

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Lucid dreaming has come in to popular culture in recent years, and may provide a way of managing nightmares and distressing dreams in the future. What is lucid dreaming? Can people make themselves lucid dream? What insights can be gained from lucid dreaming research? To understand all about lucid dreaming we spoke with Dr Benjamin Baird, a researcher specialising in the study of human cognition and consciousness using lucid dreaming.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 34:03 Theme - Lucid Dreaming
• 34:03 - 35:11 Clinical Tip
• 35:11 - 37:45 Pick of the Month
• 37:45 - 39:10 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: 

• Perfectionism

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Dr Baird's profile from University of Wisconsin
• The Lucidity Institute
• Galantamine increases lucid dreaming
• Distinguishing REM sleep dreaming and waking perception from imagination 
• The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming
• j-allan-hobson-dead.html">Dr Allan Hobson NY Times Obituary
• Dream Life - Book by Dr Allan Hobson
• Cognitive behaviour therapy vs health education for sleep disturbance after head injury

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Are you constantly exhausted? Do you find it hard to concentrate and take in what you read? Do you have symptoms of poor sleep? You may have burnout. To understand what burnout is and what can be done to manage and prevent it we spoke to Prof Gordon Parker of the Black Dog Institute and University of New South Wales.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 27:41 Theme - Burnout
• 27:41 - 28:32 Clinical Tip
• 28:32 - 31:02 Pick of the Month
• 31:02 - 32:45 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: Lucid dreaming

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Prof Parker's profile from Black Dog Institute
• Burnout - book
• This Way Up - online mental health courses
• Perfectionism workbooks 
• PTSD - podcast episode

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Suicide is the leading cause of death in young people in Australia and the largest cause of productive life years lost. To understand how we can prevent suicide and links with sleep we spoke to Prof Ian Hickie of the Brain and Mind Centre at University of Sydney. Ian is also a co-host of the Minding your Mind podcast.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 30:52 Theme - Suicide and Sleep
• 30:52 - 32:03 Clinical Tip
• 32:03 - 34:26 Pick of the Month
• 34:26 - 36:06 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: Burnout

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• hickie.html">Prof Hickie's University of Sydney profile
• Minding your Mind - Podcast
• Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disturbances and depression in young people - Lancet Psychiatry
• Circadian depression: A mood disorder phenotype - Neurosci Biobehav Rev
• The Body Keeps the Score - book
• Sleep, suicide behaviours, and the protective role of sleep medicine - Sleep Med
• Sleep Down Under conference

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How does lighting impact on sleep and health? Is it really a big deal? To understand the interaction between lighting, sleep and health we spoke to Assoc Prof Sean Cain, a leading expert in lighting research, from Monash University.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 25:00 Theme - Lighting and Sleep
• 25:00 - 26:32 Clinical Tip
• 26:32 - 31:10 Pick of the Month
• 31:10 - 32:50 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: Sleep and Suicide

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• A Prof Sean Cain's Monash University profile
• Research paper on environmental impact of light
• Lighting environment in hospitals
• Editorial on healthy hospital lighting
• Center for Environmental Therapeutics
• WorkAlert
• When Brains Dream - book
• Acupuncture and insomnia - systematic review
• Circadian mechanisms in medicine - New England Journal of Medicine

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