Métodos diagnósticos nos distúrbios do sono Diagnostics methods for sleep disorders
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2005 O objetivo deste artigo é o de descrever os procedimentos, as recomendações, os achados e o valor dos métodos diagnósticos utilizados em transtornos do sono, incluindo questionários, actigrafia, polissonografia e teste múltiplo de latência do sono ...
Sônia Maria Guimarães Pereira Togeiro +1 more
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Thermophysiology and sleep : a comparison between women with and without vascular dysregulation and difficulties initiating sleep [PDF]
, 2008 Temperature and sleep are closely interrelated. The fall of core body temperature (CBT) at the end of the waking period is caused by heat loss via distal vasodilatation, (warm hands and feet). This process induces sleepiness.
Vollenweider, Stephanie
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A Polysomnography Study of Kleine–Levin Syndrome in a Single Center
Chinese Medical Journal, 2016 Background: Kleine–Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare sleep disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of hypersomnia. Polysomnographic (PSG) researches of KLS have been reported only in few publications in the past decades. This study aimed to investigate
Yan-Wen Luo +3 more
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Polysomnographic Parameters Related to Daytime Sleepiness in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: A Preliminary Study [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Research, 2011 Background and Objective Daytime sleepiness is frequently observed in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The aim of the present study is to assess the parameters that are related to daytime sleepiness in OSAS.
Hye-Jin Moon, Bongsu Kang, Hyunwoo Nam
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Multiple Sleep Latency Tests During the Constant Routine [PDF]
Sleep, 1992 The "post-lunch dip" is a common behavioral phenomenon, though perhaps a misnomer. Biphasic models of the human sleep tendency rhythm suggest an alternative explanation for the afternoon decline in alertness. Sleep tendency was measured with the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) at 2-hour intervals in 16 volunteers from three age groups (ages 10-12 ...
M A, Carskadon, W C, Dement
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Association between sleep quality, anxiety and depression among Korean breast cancer survivors
Nursing Open, 2021 Aim This study aimed to examine the sleep pattern of breast cancer survivors and anxiety and depression associated with sleep quality to provide evidence‐based information for the development of interventions to improve sleep disorders in these survivors.
Ok‐Hee Cho, Kyung‐Hye Hwang
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Lung India, 2019 Although being the second most common cause of disabling daytime sleepiness in the world, narcolepsy in India is seldom diagnosed. So far, only two cases had been reported.
Rajesh Swarnakar, Akshay Deotare
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Diagnosis and management of narcolepsy in the Indian scenario
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2016 Introduction: The diagnosis and management of narcolepsy in the Indian context needs to be revisited especially in the wake of concerns raised by sleep medicine experts that the entity could be formidably underdiagnosed, as well as undertreated in our ...
Sachin Sureshbabu +2 more
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Clinical and Polysomnographic Characteristics of Patients with Excessive Daytime Sleepiness [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Research, 2018 Background and Objective Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a common symptom of many sleep disorders. EDS is the result of disturbed sleep or the sleep-waking process.
Yun Kyung Park +3 more
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Central disorders of hypersomnolence in children and adults: A comparative study from South India
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2019 Background: Narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnolence (IHS) are rare disorders. In Western populations, the reported prevalence of narcolepsy is 0.02%–0.05%. In Indian subcontinent, there are few reports on narcolepsy and none on IHS so far.
Madhukar Trivedi +6 more
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