Top Research Papers on Sleep

An at-home portable system that includes wireless sleep sensors and wearable electronics with embedded machine learning and deep learning offers automated sleep scoring, demonstrating portability, and point-of-care usability is reported.

REM OSA appears consistently linked with hypertension but its overall impact on health is still poorly defined, and the weaknesses and strengths of existing literature are critically examined.

Orexin receptor antagonists were recently developed as new drugs for insomnia, and orexin agonists may be the next‐generation drugs for narcolepsy, and these drugs might also be beneficial for treating various conditions other than sleep disorders in the future.

Much work needs to be done in order to understand “normal” infant sleep as species-typical and how adaptive infants are to environments that stray from their evolutionary norm.

The results suggest that regular timing of sleep is associated with sleep that is of longer duration and higher quality and may be protective of adolescent mental health, and adolescents should be encouraged to retain regular sleeping patterns to promote well‐being and mental health.

RMMAs occur more frequently in supine position than in non-supine positions in patients with OSA, and in both sleep positions, RMMAs are associated with arousals.

This review summarizes the current knowledge of the genetic basis underlying human sleep traits and sleep disorders and highlights the use of animal models to validate genetic findings from human sleep studies and discusses potential molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways involved in the regulation of human sleep.

This cohort study investigates the association of sleep architecture and obstructive sleep apnea measures with cognitive function among middle-aged to older adults in 5 cohorts.

DNS is a common symptom of narcolepsy deserving consideration in clinical care and future research, and there is strong evidence showing improvement of self-reported sleep quality and objective sleep stability measures with sodium oxybate, but rigorous clinical trials with other pharmacotherapies are needed.

Background Insomniacs are heterogenous group with very diverse personalities. We aimed to investigate the mediating role of sleep reactivity (SR), sleep hygiene (SH), and sleep effort (SE) in the relationship between Type D personality and insomnia. Materials and methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 474 participants. The survey comprised the sociodemographic data form, Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), D Type Personality Scale (DS-14), Ford Insomnia Response to Stress Test (FIRST), Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale (GSES), and Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI). We conducted hierarchical multiple ...

The roles of sleep neurons of the hypothalamus in the homeostatic control of thermoregulation or goal-oriented behaviors during wakefulness and how hypothalamic circuits involved in opposing behaviors compute conflicting information and provide a coherent vigilance state are reviewed.

It was determined that health education improved some sleep quality subscales including subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration and habitual sleep efficiency, and sleep disturbances, daytime dysfunction, and global sleep quality.

The included studies focused on exploring the effect of physical activity on sleep quality and sleep disorders or the association between physical activity and sleep outcomes, and have potential implications for healthcare, public health policies, and health promotion.

An adequate amount of REM sleep appears necessary to guarantee sleep continuity, while periodically activating the brain and preparing it for the return to consciousness, according to standard polysomnographic analysis of sleep.

This study is aimed at designing a multimodal model based on the CLIP model that is more suitable for sleep staging tasks using sleep signals and labels.

Hypnotherapy appears to be a promising treatment for sleep disturbance and future studies should report effect sizes, adverse events, and hypnotizability and include sleep-specific suggestions, standardized measures, and descriptions of hypnotherapy intervention procedures.

Of particular interest are manipulations that affect the regulation of muscle tone in REM sleep, which is likely that interactions between REM-on and REM-off cells control the key phenomena of REM sleep.

There is a significant need for greater emphasis on sleep health in education, clinical practice, inpatient and long-term care, public health promotion, and the workplace.

Background: Sleep talking (ST) is characterized by the production of unaware verbal vocal activations (VBs) during sleep. ST seems potentially linked to linguistic and memory consolidation processes. However, sleep and dream characteristics and the relationship between verbal vocalizations (VBs) and cognitive functions are still unknown. Our study aimed to investigate qualitative sleep and dream features in sleep talkers (STs) compared to healthy subjects (CNTs) through retrospective and longitudinal measures and explore the relationship between ST and memory consolidation. Methods: We recruit...

Due to the high demands of competitive sports, the sleep architecture of adolescent athletes may be influenced by their regular training. To date, there is no clear evidence on how training characteristics (intensity, time of day, number of sessions) influence sleep quality and quantity. 53 male soccer players (M = 14.36 years, SD = 0.55) of Austrian U15 (n = 45) and U16 elite teams (n = 8) were tested on at least three consecutive days following their habitual training schedules. Participants completed daily sleep protocols (7 a.m., 8 p.m.) and questionnaires assessing sleep quality (PSQI), c...

The Home Sleep Apnea Testing (HSAT) is now available to diagnose OSA and understanding the indications and limitations of HSAT is important to avoid misdiagnosis and improve patient outcomes.

In this comment, we explored the link between sleep fragmentation and the cardiovascular risk, considering various sleep disorders and methodologies for assessing sleep fragmentation.

Understanding the biochemical or circuit basis for the sleep drive could enable the benefits of sleep to be artificially stimulated with a new generation of sedative drugs.

Both financial hardship and sleep disturbances were prevalent, and their relationships were strongest among certain minoritized racial-ethnic groups, particularly Black/African American adults.

People with migraine have significantly poorer subjective sleep quality and altered sleep architecture compared to healthy individuals and further longitudinal empirical studies are required to enhance the understanding of this relationship.

Although the overall agreement was high, several areas of low agreement were also found, mainly between non‐rapid eye movement stages, mainly between non‐rapid eye movement stages.

In recent decades, sleep research, dream research, and sleep medicine have benefited greatly from new methods in genetic research and brain imaging techniques, which enabled a high spatial resolution of the activity of the sleeping brain, complementing the high temporalresolution of the electroencephalogram.

This review looks at both sleep quantity and sleep quality, considering how to manage the complex but probably unavoidable physiological phenomenon of sleep, and the associations between sleep quality and health or disorders in children and adolescents.

The results of the present systematic review show that pro-inflammatory diets may be associated with poor sleep outcomes (duration and quality); however, as the current literature is inconsistent and limited, further cross-sectional studies in larger cohorts are necessary to explore this relationship.

The literature on several major sleep electroencephalography features identified in obstructive sleep apnea, including slow‐wave activity, sleep spindles, K‐complexes, cyclic alternating patterns, rapid eye movement sleep quantitative electroENCEphalography, odds ratio product, and how treatment of obstructiveSleep apnea affects these associations are summarized.

It is found that sustained vigilant attention was not fully recovered even after nine nights of recovery sleep, and improvements in traditional metrics of sleep quality were associated with deterioration rather than improvement in neurobehavioral performance, demonstrating that sleep duration should be included in assessments ofSleep quality.

Data suggest seasonal variation in sleep architecture even when living in an urban environment in patients with disturbed sleep, which would provide first evidence for a need to adjust sleep habits to season.

Previous research has shown that sleep deprivation, low quality sleep or inconvenient sleeping times are associated with lower quality of life. However, research of the longitudinal effects of sleep on quality of life is scarce. Hence, we know very little about the long-term effect of changes in sleep duration, sleep quality and the time when individuals sleep on quality of life. Using longitudinal data from three waves of the Czech Household Panel Study (2018–2020) containing responses from up to 4,523 respondents in up to 2,155 households, the study examines the effect of changes in sleep du...

SB and SAHS seem to have a certain concomitance, ranging between 20% and 40%, and they also share some risk factors such as advanced age, obesity, smoking, and alcohol consumption, which dentists should be aware of for early diagnosis.

A trunk centerline prediction algorithm based on 1-D Gaussian template is innovatively proposed that has high accuracy for volunteers with different shapes and can effectively improve the accuracy of the subsequent sleeping posture recognition algorithm.

OSA patients reporting insomnia-like symptoms and/or sleepiness do not represent a more severe phenotype, by the classic definition of OSA, but their subjective sleep quality is compromised, causing a vicious cycle of anxiety or depression.

Findings mirror two predominant health identities available to older people, as responsible for resisting ageing or as falling into inevitable decline, which reveals additional expectations around appropriate time use and behaviours with ageing.

Laboratory-based sleep manipulations show asymmetries between positive and negative affect, but say little about how more specific moods might change. We report extensive analyzes of items from the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) during days following nights of chronic sleep restriction (6 h sleep opportunity), during 40 h of acute sleep deprivation under constant routine conditions, and during a week-long forced desynchrony protocol in which participants lived on a 28-h day. Living in the laboratory resulted in medium effects sizes on all positive moods (Attentiveness, General Posi...

In conclusion, personalized sleep medicine is revolutionizing sleep disorder treatment, leveraging individual characteristics and advanced technologies for improved diagnosis, treatment, and management.

It is suggested that late night schedule, may increase sleep reactivity and sleep effort, which is associated with sleep and mood disturbances, and these variables are associated with insomnia, daytime sleepiness, and depressive symptoms.

Sleep complaints are a key hallmark of JFS and have significant effect on relevant clinical domains of the disease, such as pain and depression.

A validation study to assess the Fitbit Alta HRTM (FBA) - a consumer wearable device with an accelerometer and a heart rate monitor to detect sleep stages and quality against electroencephalographic (EEG) studies in athletes demonstrates that FBA facilitates sleep monitoring and exhibits acceptable agreement with EEG.

Hypersomnolence and sleep disorder are reviewed as key clinical features of OSA and their effect on HCW safety.

The literature on measurements of sleep health is reviewed and the Bernese Sleep Health Questionnaire is presented, a new and simple tool to assess sleep health and screen for sleep–wake circadian disorders in clinical practice.

An analysis of some of the most recent literature on digital addiction offers a conceptual basis for understanding digital addiction as one of the major reasons why people, and adolescents in particular, sleep less and less well in the digital age.

The outcome analysis showed that adenotonsillectomy significantly improved standard deviation of all normal-to-normal intervals, and high frequency power, QoL (in terms of reduced total OSA-18 questionnaire score), OAHI and hypoxemia and provided a direction for future research to investigate the effects of VLF power-guided interventions on childhood OSA.

Co-sleeping had low prevalence and was associated with higher levels of parental misperception about infant sleep, and Parental misperceptions about infantSleep may be an important factor to consider in pediatric sleep.

The study demonstrates the accuracy of specific items related to sleep quality disturbance for the preliminary assessment of the disease and suggests that including the factors discriminating sleep quality could further increase the efficiency and accuracy of PSQ.

Findings suggest that sleep architecture and EEG signatures may partially explain cognitive impairment caused by sleep restriction.

SB does not occur in patients with COMISA more frequently than in patients with OSA or those without any sleep disorders, and PSG parameters are not specific for COMISA; therefore, in order to differentiate this disorder from OSA alone, a comprehensive patient assessment has to be performed.