Article
Oncology
Charlotte Kreutz, Jana Mueller, Martina E. Schmidt, Karen Steindorf
Summary: Sleep problems were common in breast cancer patients starting neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and subjective and objective assessments showed significant differences in various parameters. PSQI and ActiGraph measurements had limited agreement, suggesting a combination of both methods might be most promising.
SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ana Ribeiro, Rachel Gabriel, Bernardo Garcia, Casey Cuccio, William Aqeel, Alejandro Moreno, Colby Landeen, Arlene Hurley, Neil Kavey, Donald Pfaff
Summary: This study found that poor sleepers have a higher number of both cortical and peripheral arousals compared to good sleepers, and the temporal contiguity between these two types of arousals is altered in poor sleepers. Evaluating the number of peripheral arousals could be a physiological means of distinguishing poor sleepers.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Shalini Mondal, Steve Edwards, Erik Wibowo, Hashim Ahmed, Richard J. Wassersug, Jason Ellis, Maximus Isaac, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Mangar
Summary: This study evaluated sleep disturbances in prostate cancer patients, especially those receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). The results showed that ADT patients had poorer sleep quality, longer sleep duration, higher sleep fragmentation, and longer daytime napping compared to ADT-naive patients.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Danielle C. Mathersul, R. Jay Schulz-Heik, Timothy J. Avery, Santiago Allende, Jamie M. Zeitzer, Peter J. Bayley
Summary: This study investigated the effects of two treatments (breathing-based yoga and cognitive processing therapy) on sleep in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The results showed that both treatments improved sleep quality, with cognitive processing therapy being more effective for reducing nightmares and breathing-based yoga being more effective for reducing insomnia. These findings support the effectiveness of trauma-focused psychotherapy for improving sleep and suggest the potential benefits of yoga-based interventions for individuals with emotional or mental health disorders like PTSD.
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Oxana Palesh, Leah T. Tolby, Elisa N. Hofmeister, Sophie Fisher, Natalie L. Solomon, Sarah Sackeyfio, Jonathan S. Berek, Allison W. Kurian, Erin Cassidy-Eagle, Lidia Schapira
Summary: The study found that a high percentage of female cancer survivors experienced symptoms of insomnia, with good sleep associated with better psychosocial outcomes, fewer supportive care needs, and lower symptom severity.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Kevin D. McGovney, Ashley F. Curtis, Christina S. McCrae
Summary: In patients with fibromyalgia, increased afternoon and early evening physical activity is associated with sleep disturbance, especially in individuals with higher pain intensity.
JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Psychiatry
Mariana Francisco Ferreira, Sandra Carvalho Bos, Antonio Ferreira Macedo
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of physical activity on insomnia. A systematic literature review was conducted and 15 eligible articles were analyzed. The results showed that physical activity had a beneficial effect on insomnia, especially in improving sleep efficiency. Objective methods, such as polysomnography and actigraphy, were useful in assessing sleep in insomnia and evaluating the efficacy of physical activity interventions.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Deepak Langade, Vaishali Thakare, Subodh Kanchi, Sunil Kelgane
Summary: The study confirmed that Ashwagandha root extract has a significant effect on improving sleep quality, with more pronounced improvements seen in insomnia patients. The results suggest that Ashwagandha root extract can effectively manage insomnia and is well tolerated by participants regardless of health condition. Additional clinical trials are needed to generalize the findings.
JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jung Kyung Hong, Hyuk Joo Lee, Seockhoon Chung, In-Young Yoon
Summary: A study on patients with insomnia revealed differences in sleep parameters and quantitative electroencephalography based on age and sex. Older patients had shorter total sleep time and slower dominant occipital frequency, while women slept longer and showed higher relative beta power than men. The age effect was more prominent in women, with older women reporting shorter total sleep time, underestimating their sleep time, and exhibiting reduced alpha power in the frontal area compared to younger women.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SLEEP MEDICINE
(2021)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Sean P. Carruthers, Gemma Brunetti, Susan L. Rossell
Summary: The purpose of the study was to understand the relationship between sleep disturbances and cognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, but the diverse list of sleep parameters and cognitive domains investigated, as well as a lack of replication, resulted in an overall lack of consistent pattern in the results.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Brienne Miner, Margaret Doyle, Melissa Knauert, Henry Klar Yaggi, Katie L. Stone, Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Jane A. Cauley, Susan Redline, Terri Blackwell, Thomas M. Gill
Summary: ISSD, characterized by insomnia or poor sleep quality with short sleep duration, is common among older adults and is associated with various factors. Future research should focus on determining causal relationships and whether these factors are modifiable risk factors.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Immunology
Davide De Francesco, Caroline A. Sabin, Alan Winston, Patrick W. G. Mallon, Jane Anderson, Marta Boffito, Nicki D. Doyle, Lewis Haddow, Frank A. Post, Jaime H. Vera, Memory Sachikonye, Susan Redline, Ken M. Kunisaki
Summary: The study found fair agreement between self-reported and actigraphy-assessed sleep measures in people with HIV, with insomnia symptoms correlated with regularity of sleep duration, quality, and efficiency. These findings emphasize the importance of using both patient-reported and objective measures to better understand sleep disorders in people with HIV.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sungkyu Park, Assem Zhunis, Marios Constantinides, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia, Meeyoung Cha
Summary: This study analyzes the sleep of 30,082 individuals across 11 countries using 52 million activity records from wearable devices. It reveals that societal factors explain around 55% of the variation in sleep quality and 63% in sleep quantity. Furthermore, the study finds that exercise plays a key role in improving sleep quality, especially in countries like the U.S. and Finland.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Elisabet Blok, M. Elisabeth Koopman-Verhoeff, Daniel P. Dickstein, Jared Saletin, Annemarie Luik, Jolien Rijlaarsdam, Manon Hillegers, Desana Kocevska, Tonya White, Henning Tiemeier
Summary: This study found that higher reported sleep problems were associated with more symptoms of mental health problems in 10-11- and 13-14-year-old adolescents. However, actigraphy-estimated sleep characteristics were not associated with most mental health problems, suggesting that these two measures tap into distinct constructs of sleep.
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Karin Abeler, Svein Bergvik, Trond Sand, Oddgeir Friborg
Summary: There is a strong relationship between pain, sleep quality, and mental distress in patients with chronic pain, emphasizing the importance of considering this complexity in assessment and treatment. No significant day-to-day associations were found between sleep and pain in this study.
JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Anita D'Anselmo, Sergio Agnoli, Marco Filardi, Fabio Pizza, Serena Mastria, Giovanni Emanuele Corazza, Giuseppe Plazzi
Summary: The study explored psychological distress associated with COVID-19 restrictions and its relationship with depressive symptoms and creativity in patients with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1). Results showed that patients with NT1 experienced improvements in subjective sleepiness while controls reported worsening sleep quality during the lockdown. Depression and NT1 symptom severity were significant predictors of COVID-19-related distress. Creative performance, particularly generative fluency, was found to reduce the detrimental effect of depression on the patients' wellbeing. In contrast, creative originality was a disadvantageous moderator in the relationship between NT1 symptom severity and distress associated with the traumatic event.
JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Marco Filardi, Anita D'Anselmo, Sergio Agnoli, Enrico Rubaltelli, Serena Mastria, Anastasia Mangiaruga, Christian Franceschini, Fabio Pizza, Giovanni E. Corazza, Giuseppe Plazzi
Summary: Patients with central disorders of hypersomnolence (CDH) exhibit sustained attention impairments, largely intact memory functions except in KLS patients, and complex patterns of impairment in higher-order cognition, with NT1 patients showing enhanced creative abilities.
SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Alessandro Musetti, Alessio Gori, Alessia Alessandra, Eleonora Topino, Grazia Terrone, Giuseppe Plazzi, Marco Cacioppo, Christian Franceschini
Summary: This study aims to explore the associations between problematic online pornographic use (POPU), psychological stress, emotion dysregulation and insomnia symptoms, and understand the mediating role of psychological stress and emotion dysregulation in the relationship between POPU and insomnia symptoms. The findings showed that higher psychological stress and emotion dysregulation fully mediated the link between POPU and insomnia symptoms.
NATURE AND SCIENCE OF SLEEP
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Luiz Eduardo Mateus Brandao, Teemu Martikainen, Ilona Merikanto, Brigitte Holzinger, Charles M. Morin, Colin A. Espie, Courtney Bolstad, Damien Leger, Frances Chung, Giuseppe Plazzi, Yves Dauvilliers, Kentaro Matsui, Luigi De Gennaro, Mariusz Sieminski, Michael R. Nadorff, Ngan Yin Chan, Yun Kwok Wing, Sergio Arthuro Mota-Rolim, Yuichi Inoue, Markku Partinen, Christian Benedict, Bjorn Bjorvatn, Jonathan Cedernaes
Summary: The study found that the COVID-19 pandemic led to delayed sleep timing, with most participants showing a decrease in social jetlag. Both increased and decreased social jetlag were associated with a later sleep midpoint and more frequent and moderate-to-severe symptoms of insomnia.
NATURE AND SCIENCE OF SLEEP
(2021)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Giorgia Varallo, Emanuele M. Giusti, Chiara Manna, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Fabio Pizza, Christian Franceschini, Giuseppe Plazzi
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis found that sleep disturbances and disorders are significantly associated with chronic postsurgical pain, but with a small effect size. The association varies in different patient groups and outcomes, possibly due to various factors. Therefore, preoperative evaluation of sleep issues is important in identifying patients at risk for chronic postsurgical pain.
SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Zhongxing Zhang, Yves Dauvilliers, Giuseppe Plazzi, Geert Mayer, Gert Jan Lammers, Joan Santamaria, Markku Partinen, Sebastiaan Overeem, Rafael del Rio Villegas, Karel Sonka, Rosa Peraita-Adrados, Raphael Heinzer, Aleksandra Wierzbicka, Birgit Hogl, Mauro Manconi, Eva Feketeova, Antonio Martins da ilva, Jitka Buskova, Claudio LA Bassetti, Lucie Barateau, Fabio Pizza, Elena Antelmi, Jari K. Gool, Rolf Fronczek, Carles Garg, Ramin Khatami
Summary: This study on NT1 patients in Europe found significant differences in diagnostic delay among countries, with factors such as age at cataplexy onset, interval between EDS and cataplexy onsets, and cataplexy frequency being associated with longer delay.
NATURE AND SCIENCE OF SLEEP
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Lorenzo Tonetti, Marco Fabbri, Sara Giovagnoli, Monica Martoni, Miranda Occhionero, Vincenzo Natale
Summary: Sleep inertia refers to the gradual recovery of waking-like status after morning awakening. This study investigates the dissipation of sleep inertia in motor activity after spontaneous waking up and finds that age significantly influences motor activity levels.
Review
Clinical Neurology
Fabio Pizza, Lucie Barateau, Yves Dauvilliers, Giuseppe Plazzi
Summary: The orexins, or hypocretins, are neuropeptides produced by neurons in the lateral hypothalamus and play a role in regulating sleep, wakefulness, and other functions. Destruction of orexin neurons leads to narcolepsy in humans, and impairments in orexin signaling cause narcoleptic-like symptoms in animals. The discovery of orexins has revolutionized sleep research and holds promise for therapeutic applications in various fields.
JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Giorgia Varallo, Carlos Suso-Ribera, Ada Ghiggia, Marco Veneruso, Roberto Cattivelli, Anna Guerrini Usubini, Christian Franceschini, Alessandro Musetti, Giuseppe Plazzi, Jacopo Maria Fontana, Paolo Capodaglio, Gianluca Castelnuovo
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the mediating roles of pain catastrophizing, kinesiophobia, and pain acceptance in the relationship between perceived pain severity and physical functioning in individuals with fibromyalgia and obesity. The results indicated that pain acceptance, kinesiophobia, and pain catastrophizing play crucial roles in enhancing physical functioning.
JOURNAL OF PAIN RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lorenzo Tonetti, Alice Andreose, Valeria Bacaro, Martina Grimaldi, Vincenzo Natale, Elisabetta Crocetti
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between social jetlag and weekend catch-up sleep with well-being and physical health in adolescents. The study found that in adolescents sleeping less than 7 hours, longer duration of weekend catch-up sleep (>120 minutes) was associated with lower subjective well-being. This highlights the detrimental effect of long weekend catch-up sleep on self-reported well-being in adolescents who do not get enough sleep.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Miranda Occhionero, Lorenzo Tonetti, Sara Giovagnoli, Vincenzo Natale
Summary: This study examines the distribution of early memory recall in young adults and found that early memories are often vague, but they become more abundant over time. The types of memories include perceptual-visual fragments, semantic memories, and repeated events. The study also found that as the number of memory types increases, the likelihood of memory being structured as episodic decreases, and elements of perceptual-visual fragments, semantic memories, and repeated events become more prominent. These results suggest the importance of episodic memory in organizing experiences and its role in less structured forms of memory.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Valeria Bacaro, Alice Andreose, Martina Grimaldi, Vincenzo Natale, Lorenzo Tonetti, Elisabetta Crocetti
Summary: This study aimed to explore the association between sleep patterns and adolescents' school experience. The results showed that short sleep duration, later bedtimes during weekdays and weekends, and a higher amount of social jetlag were negatively related to school performance. Additionally, adolescents who did not use any sleep-recovery strategies had lower levels of educational in-depth exploration compared to those who used catch-up sleep but not social jetlag.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Miranda Occhionero, Lorenzo Tonetti, Andreas Conca, Sara Giovagnoli, Giancarlo Giupponi, Marina Zoppello, Vincenzo Natale
Summary: Prospective memory (PM) performance is lower in individuals diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), regardless of age. The deficits in PM are more pronounced in children with ADHD. These findings indicate that PM efficiency can be considered as a neuropsychological marker of ADHD.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Andrea Zagaria, Scarpelli Serena, Alessandro Musetti, Giada Rapelli, Luigi De Gennaro, Giuseppe Plazzi, Christian Franceschini
Summary: This study investigated changes in sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic and found a link between sleep hygiene practices and sleep disruptions. Improving sleep hygiene practices may help mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep.
JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Lorenzo Tonetti, Miranda Occhionero, Marco Fabbri, Sara Giovagnoli, Martina Grimaldi, Monica Martoni, Vincenzo Natale
Summary: This study investigated the time course of motor activity sleep inertia (maSI) dissipation from middle childhood to late adulthood using actigraphy. The results showed that maSI dissipated in 70 minutes and was more evident in younger participants. Additionally, lower age was significantly associated with greater motor activity during the wakefulness period.
