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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"sleep disturbances"”.
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Restless Cycles : sleep Disturbances Across the Menstrual Cycle
Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að kanna hvort að svefngæði og almenn vellíðan taki breytingum eftir mismunandi fösum tíðahrings hjá konum með reglulegan tíðahring. Notast var við innanhópasnið og var spurningalisti lagður fyrir þátttakendur í gegnum Microsoft Forms. Spurningalistinn var sendur til 42 …
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Associations between sleep disturbances, personality, and trait emotional intelligence
Insomnia is defined by difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking earlier than desired with inability to return to sleep. Complaints of nonrestorative sleep (NRS) are often associated with insomnia but can occur independently. Fragmented sleep and NRS have been shown to relate to one’s …
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Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
… Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans. Disturbed sleep is one of the most frequently reported symptoms among OEF/OIF veterans with PTSD. PTSD itself is impairing, but the burden of this disorder is likely heightened when accompanied by sleep disturbances. Sleep disturbances have been associated …
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Sleep Disturbances, Fatigue, and Physical Activity in Thai Older Adults Receiving Hemodialysis
… hemodialysis in Thailand frequently experience sleep disturbances, fatigue, and low physical activity (PA). Although prior studies have described daily and diurnal variations in these symptoms, they have not investigated how hemodialysis treatment itself influences symptom patterns throughout …
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Sleep Disturbances in Adults with TSC: Influences of Treatment and Clinical Features
… or TSC-associated neuropsychiatric disorders. Sleep disorders are a common feature of TAND; however, they are not well characterized in the adult TSC population. Likewise, little is known about how clinical features of the condition and commonly prescribed medications impact sleep. Therefore, …
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Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbances and Psychopathology in a Mental Health Clinic Sample
Sleep disturbances in children and adolescents (hereafter children) are associated with significant short-term and long-term impairments including more severe psychopathology, reduced cognitive functioning, and poorer general health. We know that children being treated in specialty mental health …
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Stillbirth and trauma associated sleep disturbances: A population-based study of 27,605 women
… association of stillbirth and trauma associated sleep disturbances has received limited attention. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to assess the association of having experienced a stillbirth and the proposed trauma associated sleep disorder (TASD) in a large nationally representative …
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Sleep disturbances following traumatic brain injury : lived experiences and the use of psychological interventions
Sleep disturbances are common following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Biological, psychological and social aetiological factors have been identified, with consequences of sleep disturbances including mood disturbances and exacerbation of cognitive difficulties, with potential impacts on …
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The prevalence of sleep disturbances in adolescents and the link to mental health disorders
There is a large body of research showing that sleep disorders are becoming more prevalent, especially in developing children in the United States. The negative effects of sleep disorders are well researched in adults. One such negative effect is the connection between sleep disorders and mental …
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Effectiveness of Play2Sleep with Mothers and Fathers of Infants: A Mixed Methods Study
Infant sleep disturbances distress approximately one in four Canadian families and are associated with poorer parental health, family well-being, and child developmental outcomes. Assisting families to manage infant sleep disturbances may improve well-being, as well as support child development. …
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Improving sleep quality and patient satisfaction by reducing nighttime disturbances in hospitalized patients : a DNP project
… and outcomes are affected by the quality of sleep in the hospital. Noise, light, routine assessment, diagnostic and laboratory tests, and room transfers are among the factors causing reduced or disrupted sleep in the hospital. This project prioritizes the reduction of sleep disturbances for …
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How Do Anxiety, Stress, Impulsiveness, And Sleep Quality Affect Memory
… and store information. Factors such as stress, sleep disturbances, anxiety, and impulsiveness can impact memory encoding and retrieval, especially in college students, whose academic success depends heavily on memory performance. This study examined the relationship between these everyday …
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The aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling pathway and adverse reproductive outcomes
… debilitating symptoms including hot flashes and sleep disturbances. These symptoms may persist even years after they have started, leading to disrupted normal daily functioning. Previous studies have reported that race/ethnicity, body mass index, smoking status, and low estradiol levels may …
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Effect of Sleep Quality on Theory of Mind in Children with ADHD
… current study explored the relationship between sleep quality and Theory of Mind (ToM) in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Children with ADHD often have reduced sleep quality and increased daytime sleepiness than their typically developing peers. ToM is a skill that …
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Insomnia symptoms in elderly persons - assessment, associated factors and non-pharmacological nursing interventions
… showed a moderate to large effect on several sleep outcomes. In Study II, the measurement properties of the Minimal Insomnia Symptom scale (MISS) were tested on 497 elderly pesons. Corrected item-total correlations were 0.64-0.70, floor/ceiling effects were 6.6/0.6% and reliability 0.81. Using …
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An Examination of Clinical High-Risk Status, Sleep Quality, and Verbal Memory in a Community Sample Enriched for Psychosis Risk
Sleep disturbances have been widely endorsed by individuals at heightened risk for developing psychosis. Nascent findings in clinical high-risk (CHR) individuals indicate that sleep disturbances are associated with heightened CHR symptoms over time. Sleep is also vital for neural plasticity and …
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Echoes of Trauma: The Relationship Between Poly-Victimization in Childhood and Health Outcomes
… in childhood and health outcomes, specifically sleep disturbance. The major research question is as follows: “What is the relationship between poly-victimization in childhood and health outcomes?” Primarily, the null hypotheses state, “There is no relationship between poly-victimization in …
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Investigating state-dependent pontine cholinergic activity during REM sleep and P-waves in vivo
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a behavioural state during which phasic deflections in pontine LFP, known as pontine waves (P-waves), occur most prominently. Cholinergic pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nucleus (PPT/LDT) neurons have been implicated in the generation mechanisms of both …
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Effects of Environmental Temperature on Sleep and Waking in Normal Rats and Rats With Basal Forebrain Damage
… and impairs body temperature regulation. Normal sleep is sensitive to thermal stress--animals spend the most time asleep at thermoneutral temperatures, and amounts of sleep decline in the heat and in the cold. Amounts of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep in normal rats vary within the thermoneutral …
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"Towards Closed-Loop Sleep Monitoring in Parkinson’s Disease: Self-Supervised Learning Strategies for Sleep Stage Classification"
Parkinson’s disease (PD) involves severe sleep disturbances that may accelerate neurodegeneration. Closed-loop deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a promising therapeutic solution but requires accurate, real-time sleep-stage classification from subthalamic nucleus signals, a task where conventional …
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