BACKGROUND Many patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing dialysis therapy suffer from sleep disturbances. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of sleep disorders in a large population of uraemic patients recruited from 20 different dialytic centres in Triveneto. METHODS 883 patients on maintenance dialysis were enrolled in the study. Demographic, lifestyle, r...

Behavioral interventions have been identified as the treatment of choice for many forms of pediatric sleep disturbance. We adopt criteria established by the Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures (1996) to evaluate the literature base describing behavioral interventions for pediatric sleep disturbance. Three well-established interventions, one promising interventi...

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This month's CNS Spectrums introduces the exciting new clinical column series "Brain Regions of Interest," which is overseen by Michael Trimble, MD, FRCP, FRPsych. This column will include articles on the neuroanatomy of key brain structures important for neuropsychiatry, functional brain circuitry, and the clinical neurosciences of psychiatry and neurology. I can think of no region that is of ...

1 Sleep Medicine Services, Department of Medicine, Lankenau Medical Center and Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA, USA 2 Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Minneapolis, MN, USA 3 Academic Department of Sleep and Ventilation, Birmingham Hearltands Hospital, Birmingham, UK 4 NHMRC Centre for Integrated Research and Understanding Sleep, Woolcock...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Environmental factors such as serious trauma or abuse and related stress can lead to nightmares or night terrors. Being bullied can be very distressing for children, and victims display long-term social, psychological, and health consequences. Unknown is whether being bullied by peers may increase the risk for experiencing parasomnias such as nightmares, night terrors...

OBJECTIVE Somnambulism affects up to 4% of adults and constitutes one of the leading causes of sleep-related violence and self-injury. Diagnosing somnambulism with objective instruments is often difficult because episodes rarely occur in the laboratory. Because sleep deprivation can precipitate sleepwalking, we aimed to determine the effects of 25 hours of sleep deprivation on the frequency and...