Dr. Nushafreen Irani

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About Dr. Nushafreen Irani

Insomnia therapist


Skills & Abilities
  • Client management with sleep disorders
  • Education

    • PhD in Life Sciences from University of Mumbai
    • Thesis topic Studies on Prevalence of Sleep Problems and Identification of Appropriate Interventions in Mentally Challenged Population.
    Sleep Specialisation
    • Certificate in Clinical Sleep Health (CCHS), USA Registration number - 1286
    Other
  • Yoga Teacher and Naturopathy Therapeutics
  • Work Experience from 2010 till date

    • Insomnia therapist
    • Client management with sleep disorders
    • Conducted Training programs for Doctors (CME’s)
    • Co-ordinated Clinical Trial studies
    • Sleep study scoring
    • Conducting workshop –Awareness Campaign:
      Pan-India awareness campaign of sleep disorders in children in collaboration with Times of India.

    Above activities were executed at International Institute of Sleep Sciences (IISS),one of leading Institute working for diagnosis, treatment and research in Sleep disorders.

    Research Paper Publications

  • Peer review Journal with 36 citations -
    Deshpande, A., Irani, N., Balkrishnan, R., & Benny, I. R. (2020). A randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study to evaluate the effects of ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) extract on sleep quality in healthy adults.Sleep Medicine.
  • Peer review Journal with 22 Citations
    Deshpande, A., Irani, N., & Balakrishnan, R. (2018). Study protocol and rationale for a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the effects of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) extract on on restorative Sleep.Medicine,97(26).
  • Peer review Journals
    Borgaonkar, V., Deshpande, A., Natu, U., Dixit, R., Irani, N., Tahmane, N. (2019). Effect Of Yoga On Beta Cell Functioning In NIDDM. National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine,10(2).
  • Peer review Journals
    Irani, N., Deshmukh, S., & Deshpande, A. (2019).Prevalence Of Periodic Limb Movement Disorder In Intellectually Disable Population.National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine,10(6).
  • Peer review Journals
    Irani, N., Gandhi, N., Deshmukh, S., & Deshpande, A. (2019, December). Comparison of Global Prevalence of Sleep Disorders in Intellectually Normal v/s Intellectually Disabled: A Review. In International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (pp. 205-216). Springer,Cham.
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