Insufficient or poor sleep can lead to depression and anxiety, decreased brain function, memory loss and many other disorders. Dr. Innessa Donskoy, Pediatric Sleep Medicine Physician, and Dr. Jennie deep dive into sleep deprivation in adolescents. Listen to the full episode on your favorite streaming service.
This Episode Covers the Following:
About Dr. Donskoy:
Innessa Donskoy is a pediatric sleep medicine physician at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Illinois. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine for the Sleep Medicine fellowship. She completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University & Ann Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. Dr. Donskoy sees patients from early infancy to late adolescence and provides an array of services, from sleep coaching/sleep health optimization to treating simple and complex sleep-disordered breathing, movement disorders, circadian rhythm disorders, insomnia and hypersomnias.
Sources Mentioned:
National Sleep Foundation: National Sleep Foundation (thensf.org)
American Academy of Sleep Medicine: American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) | Sleep | Medical Society
American Heart Association-Sleep: Sleep | American Heart Association
American Academy of Pediatrics-Safe Sleep: https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/safe-sleep/