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Filter by:Improvement of patients' care and outcome is largely based on development and validation of drugs and technologies, especially in rapidly evolving fields as Interventional Cardiology. In fact, even though the optimal efficiency of a cathlab can be influenced by Interventional Cardiologist's mental workload, stress' accumulation and performance, little if any attention is paid to the monitoring and optimization of his/her mental status. Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based neural-interfaces are able to estimate workload, fatigue and the degree of sleepiness through spectral analysis techniques. In particular, the amplitude of alpha waves is a widely validated indicator of mental engagement's level. Developing a low cost and highly feasible device to monitor and analyze operator's mental engagement level and performance could be extremely appealing, especially considering both the lack of data in literature for interventional disciplines and the recent technology developments.
This study aims at measuring the impact of a night of sleep deprivation over the vocal characteristics of healthy subjects.To do so, the subjects takes a Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) the day after a night of total sleep deprivation (or a supervised normal night for the control subjects). Before each iteration of the MSLT, the subjects are recorded during the reading of a text and fill three medical questionnaires : Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS), Visual Analogue Scale for Fatigue (VAS-F) and Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety (VAS-A), allowing to link variations of vocal markers to the variations of these measures.
In this research study the investigators want to learn more about whether the medication Solriamfetol improves daytime sleepiness in workers who start work at very early times (between 3 and 6am).
Sleep is a physiological function that plays an essential role in many somatic, cognitive or psychological processes. Although the criteria for sleep effectiveness are multiple, its quantity is unanimously recognized as a major determinant of health. Too little sleep time is indeed associated with an increase in metabolic, cardiovascular and accidental morbidity and mortality, caused by sleepiness during journeys or at the workplace. In the wake of recent work in the general French population, a specific study on the prevalence and factors associated with sleeping time and chronic insomnia among flight members appears relevant. Chronic insomnia and sleep debt can thus be assumed to be more common among aircrews than in the general population, due to these specific operational constraints. Better consideration of certain sleep disorders in professional flight members could make it possible to adapt prevention or countermeasures strategies intended to optimize risk management with regard to flight safety.
It is not yet known whether an analysis of daytime sleepiness over the course of the day can predict the diagnosis or severity of sleep apnea. The goal of the study is to examine whether a psychometric determination of daytime sleepiness can adequately and practicably record daytime sleepiness in patients with mainly sleep apnea in comparison to other standardized methods.
Sleepiness is frequent in parkinsonian patients, increasing with the duration of disease. By patients with motor fluctuations, continuous dopaminergic delivery devices or deep brain stimulation are justified to improve the motor prognosis. Antiparkinsonian treatments, especially dopaminergic agonists, may worsen the sleepiness and thus affect the quality of life. The investigators aimed to monitor sleepiness in parkinsonian patients before and during treatment with continous dopaminergic delivery device or deep brain stimulation.
Subjects will complete an electronic consent form and then fill out questionnaires on a tablet computer. The answers to the questions will be recorded to a secure electronic database, along with the results of a clinical overnight sleep study performed separately from this research study (this research study will not perform any overnight visits). After the overnight study diagnosis researchers will see which answers are most commonly given in association with each diagnosis. In addition, we will assess to what extent the sleep disorder impacts the patient's perception of his/her quality of life.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are highly prevalent chronic respiratory diseases in the Veteran population. OSA co-occurring with COPD, known as Overlap Syndrome (OVS), is a complex chronic medical condition associated with grave consequences. OVS is highly prevalent in Veterans. Veterans with OVS may be at increased risk for cognitive deficits, poor sleep quality as well as a reduced quality of life (QoL). The overall objective is to study the effects of positive airway pressure therapy on clinical outcomes in patients with OVS.
Chronic sleep disorders result from multiple pathophysiological mechanisms and are often associated with severe hypersomnolence, responsible for major disability. Hypersomnolence may be secondary to sleep disturbances at night by sleep fragmentation, both overall in restless leg syndrome (RLS) or specific to slow or paradoxical sleep in parasomnias (sleepwalking, sleep behavior disorder). paradoxical). Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is another cause of secondary hypersomnolence, unsolved pathophysiology, leading to a major disturbance of alertness. More rarely, hypersomnolence may be primary (central hypersomnia), representing then the most severe form existing in humans. The best-known central hypersomnia is narcolepsy type 1 (NT1), affecting 0.02% of the population. It is thanks to the existence of well-characterized clinical, biological and neuropathological patients that its pathophysiology is better understood. It is due to a selective loss of hypothalamic neurons secreting orexin / hypocretin, in connection with a probable autoimmune process, in genetically predisposed subjects. Narcolepsy type 2 (NT2), idiopathic hypersomnia (HI) and Kleine-Levin syndrome (SKL), are rarer forms of central hypersomnia, the pathophysiology of which is still unknown, due to the small number of patients studied.