Examining the Association Between Poor Sleep and Chronic Kidney Disease
Sleep apnea-associated hypoxia and very short sleep are linked with a higher moderate-to-severe...
Sleep Disorders
“My quiet times”: Themes of sleep health among people caring for a family member with dementia.
This research explores and represents the sleep of people caring for a family member with cognitive impairment or dementia. A thematic analysis was applied to the open-ended comments from 526 carers from a postal survey...
Gut microbiota composition is associated with narcolepsy type 1.
To test the hypothesis that narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is related to the gut microbiota, we compared the microbiota bacterial communities of patients with NT1 and control subjects.Thirty-five patients with NT1 (51.43% women, mean...
Google Trends reveal increases in internet searches for insomnia during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has become a global health and economic crisis. Recent evidence from small samples suggest that it has increased mood and sleep disturbances, including insomnia, around the world. This...
Prior sleep problems and adverse post-traumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae (APNS) of motor vehicle collision in the AURORA study.
Many patients in Emergency Departments (ED) after motor vehicle collisions (MVC) develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depressive episodes (MDE). This report from the AURORA study focuses on associations of...
Racial discrimination as a mediator of racial disparities in insomnia disorder.
Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to suffer from insomnia that is more severe; however, few studies have examined mechanisms by which racial disparities in severity of insomnia disorder may arise. One potential...
Insomnia Interventions in the Workplace: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to identify and evaluate the impact of interventions to improve or reduce insomnia in the workforce through randomized clinical trials. Following the recommendations of the...
New pharmacologic agents for insomnia and hypersomnia.
Insomnia and hypersomnia are conditions with multifactorial causes that can be difficult to treat. There have been recent developments and changes in the treatment of both conditions, including the addition of some agents that...
Investigating mediated effects of fear of COVID-19 and COVID-19 misunderstanding in the association between problematic social media use, psychological distress, and insomnia.
Due to the serious situation of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide, many countries have implemented policies to minimize the spread of COVID-19 infection. However, some of these policies prevent people from...
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is elevated in the blood serum of Crohn’s disease patients, but is not influenced by anti-TNF-α treatment-A pilot study.
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is associated with depression, pain, or sleep disorders, factors that are thought to be involved in the pathogenesis and clinical course of Crohn’s disease (CD). Therefore, the...
Video Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in Cancer Patients : A Cost-Effective Alternative.
Despite its high prevalence, cancer-related insomnia typically remains untreated because of a lack of access to cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), the treatment of choice for this condition. While face-to-face...
Consequences of ignoring the response-shift and measure non-invariant items in sleep studies: an empirical data based simulation of the treatment effect of CBT-I on dysfunctional sleep beliefs.
Previous studies have shown that psychological interventions do not only improve patients’ mental symptoms (i.e., true change) but may also change the internal standards patients use to evaluate their symptoms (i.e.,...
