Category: Restorative Sleep

By KAREN WEINTRAUB | DECEMBER 11, 2015 5:45 AM Credit Stuart Bradford Q Is sleep induced by a benzodiazepine counted as restorative sleep? Reader Question • 489 votes A Researchers hate to admit it, but they don’t know enough about sleep to answer this question. Their best guess, several experts said, is that sleep is sleep. Dr. John Weyl Winkelman, a sleep disorders expert at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said if a patient asked him whether medicated sleep was restorative, “I’d say: ‘You tell me.’” There is quite a bit of evidence about the negative health consequences of insomnia, but …