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Filter by:Sleep-wake dysregulation is a disturbance in the roughly 24-hour cycle of the circadian rhythm. Well known disorders presenting a sleep-wake dysregulation are seasonal affective disorder, jet lag and shift work. These people experience a serious mood change when the seasons change. When the day-night rhythm is desynchronized, they have sleep disturbances, little energy, and often feel depressed. An established intervention to treat this disorder is bright light therapy. Light therapy is used for affective disorders for shift workers, jet lag symptomatology and for advancing or delaying desynchronized rhythms.Two proxy measures for sleep-wake dysregulation are sleep quality and daytime sleepiness. It is known from cross sectional studies that renal transplant (RTx) recipients have a prevalence between 30% to 62% of poor sleep quality measured by self report; a prevalence of impaired daytime functioning of 34% 12 and a prevalence of depressive symptomatology of 20% to 22%. Sleep-wake dysregulation in other chronically ill population are a risk factor for morbidity and mortality. RTx nurses in the follow-up care are in the frontline for recipient's symptoms respectively problems. The psychosocial variables that should be addressed, having an association with morbidity and mortality are sleep, daytime functioning, adherence to immunosuppressive medication, exercise, smoking and depressive symptomatology. In the following research project we will address the following gaps: the fact that nature of sleep disturbances in RTx recipients has never been assessed, that there is no prevalence available on sleep-wake dysregulation and that there is no data on bright light therapy intervention in RTx recipients. Hypothesis: Renal transplant recipients having a sleep wake disregulation will have an improved sleep quality and less daytime sleepiness after 21 days of light therapy.
Fibromyalgia is a condition of chronic widespread pain, sleep disturbance and fatigue. Most of the patients with fibromyalgia complain of either non-restorative sleep or complaints of disturbed sleep due to pain. The study aimed at examining the effects of milnacipran on sleep disturbance in patients with fibromyalgia. The study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, two way crossover polysomnography (PSG) study to explore the effects of milnacipran on sleep disturbance. Patients received either milnacipran 50 mg twice a day (BID) or matching placebo.
Endothelial dysfunction, or abnormal functioning of the lining of blood vessels, appears to be a key process in the development of cardiovascular disease. Endothelial dysfunction appears to be caused by both sleep disordered breathing and obesity. As endothelial dysfunction is among the first clinical marker that predicts future cardiovascular events, understanding molecular mechanisms leading to impairment of endothelial function is very important. Endothelial function requires the proper functioning of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). eNOS activity is tightly regulated by caveolin-1, a protein important in the formation of cellular structures called caveolae. Low levels of caveolin-1 facilitate optimal nitric oxide synthesis in endothelial cells as caveolin-1 helps to spatially organize eNOS in close proximity to signaling proteins that are important for eNOS activation. In certain diseases however, the balance of caveolin-1 and eNOS can be disrupted resulting in impaired nitric oxide synthesis and leading to endothelial dysfunction. The investigators therefore seek to characterize levels of caveolin-1, and correlate this with the presence or absence of sleep disordered breathing, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. The current IRB protocol covers the performance of fat biopsies on subjects who have recently completed a sleep study either in the Center for Sleep Medicine or in our sleep laboratory and were found to have sleep disordered breathing or no sleep disordered breathing, subject with sleep disordered breathing who have been treated successfully with continuous positive airway pressure for 3-6 months, and subjects undergoing other studies in our lab who are obese or non-obese and subjects who have known cardiovascular disease and subjects without known cardiovascular disease.
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects Exposure, Rescripting, and Relaxation Therapy (ERRT) has on nightmares and associated problems in veterans.
The study examines actigraphic, observational, psychometric and associated repeated measurements obtained prior to and during psychopharmacological treatment.
The purpose of this study is to assess changes in left ventricular performance using echocardiography as well as ventricular remodelling, changes in sleep and changes in mood, anxiety and cognitive functions occurring as a result of treatment of predominant central sleep apnoea by adaptive servoventilation (ASV) in chronic heart failure in addition to optimal medical therapy in chronic heart failure. This will be a substudy of the SERVE-HF study.
The purpose of this study is to quantify the degree of sleep disturbances after hip or knee replacement surgery. Through polysomnographic monitoring the disturbances in sleep stages will be clarified.
This study compares the efficacy of three group interventions for people with co-morbid osteoarthritis (OA) and insomnia to help them manage their OA symptoms. The investigators hypothesize that a combination cognitive-behavioral treatment will produce significantly greater initial and long-term improvements in OA symptoms than will the other two treatments.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether trazodone is effective in the treatment of sleep disorders in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
The purpose of this observational study is to give an overview of the use of PASCONAL NERVENTROPFEN in a 2-4 week treatment of nervous diseases, especially sleep disorders due to nervousness.