Sleep Quality and Digital Media

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Healthcare will focus on sleep quality and digital media use. Several problematic uses of the Internet and digital media, such as gaming disorders and problematic social network use, are known to negatively impact numerous measures of personal health, including stress, anxiety, and depression, and sleep quality. However, increasing evidence suggests that new media, such as apps on smartphones, may play a positive role in sleep regulation. This Special Issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art research on digital media use and sleep quality.

We welcome articles that provide new insights into the affective, cognitive, and neurobiological mechanisms underlying the beneficial or detrimental use of media or digital-media-based interventions that aim to improve sleep quality or are designed to treat a specific sleep problem (e.g., insomnia). We will feature original research papers and include interesting clinical studies, reviews, short reports, narratives, and opinion pieces from researchers interested in this research topic.

Dr. Alessandro Musetti
Dr. Christian Franceschini 
Prof. Giuseppe Plazzi
Guest Editors

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