Increased Steps in Japanese Older Adults Associated with Improved Winter Sleep Quality [PDF]
Gerontology and Geriatric MedicineObjective: We aimed to assess seasonal and age-related variations in sleep quality using Fitbit data and offer lifestyle recommendations for enhancing winter sleep quality.
Nozomi Harai MD +4 more
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Optimizing Winter‐Type Seasonality Criteria in East Asian Populations: A Machine Learning Approach Using the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire [PDF]
Brain and BehaviorBackground The Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ) evaluates seasonal variations in mood and behavior. According to Kasper's criteria, individuals meeting diagnostic standards for seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or subsyndromal SAD (S‐SAD)
Ji Won Yeom +4 more
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Central hypocretin/orexin administration alleviates sleep/wake disturbances, anhedonia, and neuroinflammation in an animal model of seasonal affective disorder [PDF]
Annals of MedicineBackground Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a major depressive disorder recurring in fall and winter due to daytime light deficiency. To investigate underlying mechanisms of SAD, we previously developed a diurnal model using Nile grass rats ...
Allison Costello +4 more
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Ceylan's Winter Sleep: From Ambiguity to Nothingness
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2018 Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a puzzling filmmaker who started his career as a photographer and initially made films with a “photographic” spirit. But from his first films known as the Trilogy of Province to his award winning latest feature Winter Sleep, Ceylan ...
Aslı Daldal
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Sleep disturbances, mental health symptoms, and chronotype in Chinese elite athletes: insights from the Beijing 2022 winter olympics preparatory period [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryObjectives The present study aimed to investigate sleep disturbance and mental health symptoms in elite athletes during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics preparatory period and whether they were associated with chronotype.
Sifan Hu +14 more
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Where does bluetongue virus sleep in the winter?
PLoS Biology, 2008 Bluetongue recently spread to northern Europe for the first time. Outbreaks in temperate regions are often interrupted by cold weather, but may reappear months later. Where, then, might bluetongue virus sleep in the winter?
Anthony Wilson +2 more
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Thermal Comfort and Sleep Quality of Indonesian Students Living in Japan during Summer and Winter
Buildings, 2021 Thermal comfort is crucial in satisfaction and maintaining quality sleep for occupants. In this study, we investigated the comfort temperature in the bedroom at night and sleep quality for Indonesian students during summer and winter.
Wiwik Budiawan, Kazuyo Tsuzuki
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Seasonality of human sleep: Polysomnographic data of a neuropsychiatric sleep clinic
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 While short-term effects of artificial light on human sleep are increasingly being studied, reports on long-term effects induced by season are scarce. Assessments of subjective sleep length over the year suggest a substantially longer sleep period during
Aileen Seidler +7 more
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Hibernation behaviour and ethogram of captive Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
Veterinární Medicína, 2020 This study was undertaken to create an Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus; ABB) ethogram during hibernation and to describe the time budget of hibernating behaviours in ABB.
Man-Woo Kim +2 more
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Seasonal variations of nonmotor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease in Southeast China
Chinese Medical Journal, 2023 . Background:. Studies suggest seasonal fluctuations of symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients in Western countries. However, the association between seasonal change and variation in nonmotor symptoms (NMS) in Chinese PD patients is unclear. Here,
Jingyi Wang +6 more
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