Data from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have illustrated a relationship between short sleep duration (SSD) and weight gain. Individuals with SSD are heavier and gain more weight over time than normal-duration sleepers. This sleep-obesity relationship may have consequences for obesity treatments, as it appears that short sleepers have reduced ability to lose weight. Laboratory-based c...

Background: 79% of the pregnant women suffer from sleep disorders. These disorders are the result of physiological, hormonal and physical changes. Sleep disorders before, during and after childbirth can affect the quality of life of pregnant women. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of behavioral health sleep education on the quality of life in the pregnant women with sleep disorder in the...

SOME 35 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER (PLMD) BY LUGARESI,1 many drugs proved to be effective in improving symptoms,2,3,4 but the etiology of the disorder is still virtually unknown. PLMD may occur as a distinct disorder, in association with various drug treatments or other sleep disorders such as apnea5 or narcolepsy,6 and, very frequently, with r...

Background. Several studies have described but not formally tested discrepancies between subjective and objective measures of sleep. Study Objectives. To test the hypothesis that patients with bipolar disorder display a systematic bias to underestimate sleep duration and overestimate sleep latency. Methods. Actimetry was used to assess sleep latency and duration in 49 euthymic participants (bip...

BACKGROUND The nature of sleep-wake abnormalities in individuals with mental disorders remains unclear. The present study aimed to examine the differences in objective ambulatory measures of the sleep-wake and activity cycles across young people with anxiety, mood or psychotic disorders. METHODS Participants underwent several days of actigraphy monitoring. We divided participants into 5 group...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to explore the association between poor sleep quality and hs_CRP in an adult U.S. population. METHODS This study focused on 9,317 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2005-2008 who were aged 20-85 years, completed a sleep disorder questionnaire, and had available information on serum hs_CRP. Sleep quality was classified...

Rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder has been evaluated using Parkinson's disease-related metabolic network. It is unknown whether this disorder is itself associated with a unique metabolic network. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography was performed in 21 patients (age 65.0±5.6 years) with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder and 21 age/gender-matched hea...

background & aim : quality of life refers to satisfaction or dissatisfaction with various important life domains. sleep disorder is one of the factors which can influence the quality of life. this study has been conducted in order to investigate the relation between quality of life and sleep quality in the kurdish elderly of saqqez county. methods & materials: this correlational study was condu...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this case report was to investigate the relationship between sleep disorders and audio vestibular symptoms. CASE REPORT A case of undiagnosed sleep disorder, presenting as a temporary auditory processing difficulty, is presented. The disorder was initially treated as sudden deafness with dizziness. A 23-year-old male patient complained of acute hearing disturbance desp...