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Alterations of Subcortical Brain Structures in Paradoxical and Psychophysiological Insomnia Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Insomnia disorder (ID) is a common illness associated with mood and cognitive impairments. Subtyping ID is an ongoing debate in sleep medicine, but the underlying mechanisms of each subtype is poorly understood. Growing evidence suggests that subcortical
Farnoosh Emamian   +9 more
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Sleep of paradoxes [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, 2000
In this issue of The Journal of Physiology, Morrell et al. report their findings from a study of the response of human subjects to inspiratory resistive loading during sleep and wakefulness. At issue is a question of physiology in sleep that is important for understanding the pathophysiology of the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. These patients, and
John Orem, Witali Dunin‐Barkowski
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Sleep Education for Paradoxical Insomnia [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sleep Medicine, 2011
This case study series investigated a new treatment for paradoxical insomnia patients as there is no standard treatment for this patient group at this time. Four paradoxical insomnia patients had a polysomnography (PSG) sleep study, an unsuccessful brief course of behavioral treatment for insomnia, and then a novel sleep education treatment comprising ...
James D, Geyer   +5 more
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Expression of ceruloplasmin in cavernosal tissue of paradoxical sleep deprived rats

open access: yesSleep Science, 2012
Objective: Ceruloplasmin (Cp) is a copper-binding protein expressed in several tissues that plays distinct functions depending on the physiological context.
Monica Levy Andersen   +4 more
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Differential Effects of an Alpha-2 Agonist on Wakefulness and Paradoxical Sleep in The Rat: A Polygraphic and Biochemical Approach

open access: yesBehavioural Neurology, 1997
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the sensitivity of wakefulness and paradoxical sleep to the α2-agonist, c1onidine. The drug inhibited both wakefulness and paradoxical sleep but the smallest dose necessary to inhibit wakefulness was 64 ...
Z. de Saint Hilaire   +3 more
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Sleep deprivation increases seizures induced by cocaine in rats

open access: yesSleep Science, 2010
Objective: Medical emergency units have increasingly to deal with seizures associated with cocaine abuse, which are seen as a determinant of cocaine-related lethality in humans.
Monica Levy Andersen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microinjection of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) into the median raphe nucleus promotes REM sleep in rats

open access: yesSleep Science, 2021
Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH) is a sleep-promoting neuromodulator synthesized by neurons located in the postero-lateral hypothalamus and incerto-hypothalamic area.
Claudia Pascovich   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thermophysiology and sleep : a comparison between women with and without vascular dysregulation and difficulties initiating sleep [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Dopaminergic and noradrenergic drugs revert cocaine-induced erection in paradoxical sleep-deprived rats

open access: yesSleep Science, 2010
Objectives: Evidence suggests that paradoxical sleep deprivation induces dopaminergic supersensitivity and noradrenergic subsensitivity.
Monica Levy Andersen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of food restriction on lipid profile and spontaneous glucose levels in male rats subjected to paradoxical sleep deprivation

open access: yesClinics, 2012
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the paired consequences of food restriction and paradoxical sleep deprivation on lipid profile and spontaneous glucose levels in male rats. METHOD: Food restriction began at weaning, with 6 g of food
Tathiana Aparecida Alvarenga   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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