Regional Brain Tissue Changes and Associations with Disease Severity in Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing
Sleep, zsx203, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsx203 Published: 15 December 2017 | Academic.oup.com Abstract Study Objectives Children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) exhibit behavioral, cognitive, and autonomic deficits, suggestive of neural injury. We assessed whether the tissue alterations resulted from acute or chronic processes, and if alterations correlated with disease severity. Methods Brain tissue integrity was examined with mean diffusivity (MD) (3.0-Tesla scanner) in 20 non-snoring controls (mean age±sem, 12.2±0.6y; 10 male) and 18 children with SDB (12.3±0.7y; 11 male). Sleep, cognitive, and behavioral measures were compared between groups following overnight polysomnography using Student’s t-tests. Whole-brain MD maps were realigned and averaged, normalized, smoothed, and compared …
Healthy Sleep
Why Do People Snore? Answers for Better Health Many people snore or have experience dealing with a snoring loved one. But does this relatively common condition point to more serious health issues? RESEARCH SHOWS Treating Sleep Apnea Reduces Blood Pressure People with severe obstructive sleep apnea who used a CPAP device every night saw a reduction in their blood pressure levels in a 2014 study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins and other institutions. Eighty-eight percent of the study volunteers had high blood pressure and most were taking medications for it. The study found that those who used a CPAP …
Why Women Can’t Afford to Overlook Sleep Apnea
Katherine Sharkey MD, Ph.D. Feeling the Rhythm Overlook Sleep Apnea A new toolkit aims to raise awareness of sleep-disordered breathing in women. Posted Dec 02, 2017 | PsychologyToday.com On November 29, 2017, after more than three years of collaborative work, the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep released its Women & Sleep Apnea Toolkit to provide women and their health-care providers with gender-specific information about obstructive sleep apnea and sleep-disordered breathing. This resource is particularly special, because it represents the combined efforts of 12 researchers and clinicians across sleep-related fields, including epidemiology, obstetrics/gynecology, neurology, pain, physiology, psychiatry, pulmonology, and sleep medicine — and it involves real women with sleep apnea, …
Lack of sleep could cause mood disorders in teens
Date: December 6, 2017 | ScienceDaily.com Source: American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Summary: Chronic sleep deprivation — which can involve staying up late, and waking up early for work or school — has become a way of life for both kids and adults, especially with the increasing use of phones and tablets late into the night. But this social jet lag poses some serious health and mental health risks: new research finds that for teenagers, even a short period of sleep restriction could, over the long-term, raise their risk for depression and addiction. FULL STORY Chronic sleep deprivation — which can …
The 6 most dangerous sleeping habits for professionals
By Lindsay Tigar | Dec 6, 2017 | TheLadders.com As every seasoned professional knows, routines not only become comfortable, but habitual. Especially when it comes to your workflow, following the same (ish) steps to success helps you work more productively and efficiently. This is a positive way to function, as long as the rituals you’re developing are healthy and not detrimental. So when a poor night’s sleep — thanks to a last-minute deadline! — becomes less random and more frequent, your performance may start to suffer. And while a few raised eyebrows during a busy season from your manager isn’t cause …
How Does Smoking Weed Before Bed Affect My Sleep?
The if and how might depend on whether you have insomnia, depression, or anxiety. Deirdre Conroy Dec 11 2017, 7:52am If you speak to someone who has suffered from insomnia at all as an adult, chances are good that person has either tried using marijuana for sleep or has thought about it. This is reflected in the many variations of cannabinoid or cannabis-based medicines available to improve sleep like Nabilone, Dronabinol and Marinol. It’s also a common reason why many cannabis users seek medical marijuana cards. I am a sleep psychologist who has treated hundreds of patients with insomnia, and it seems to …
Duration of sleep increases and sleeping difficulties decrease after retirement
Date: December 7, 2017 Source: University of Turku Summary: When people retire from work life, they sleep approximately 20 minutes longer than before retirement. The quality of sleep also improves, as retired people experience less early morning awakenings or nonrestorative sleep, unlike in their last working years. FULL STORY When people retire from work life, they sleep approximately 20 minutes longer than before retirement. The quality of sleep also improves, as retired people experience less early morning awakenings or nonrestorative sleep, unlike in their last working years. Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, discovered in collaboration with the Finnish …
Sleep apnea: Listening closer for the telltale signs of dental patients not sleeping well
December 4, 2017 | DentistryIQ.com By Jeff Rodgers, DMD It’s a typical day on the job: you see several patients, observe and clean their teeth and get them ready for a visit from the dentist. As you’re cleaning one patient’s mouth, something seems a little off. You notice that they have a large neck, and it’s difficult to see their soft palate as they say “Ahhhh.” When you ask the patient about their week, they complain that they’ve been feeling tired and haven’t been sleeping well at night. You’ve experienced patients with a similar story and appearance before. What’s the …
CPAP May Reduce Seizures in People with Epilepsy Who Also Have Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Published on December 6, 2017 | SleepReviewMag.com Common treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may decrease the risk of seizures in people with epilepsy who also suffer from the sleep disorder, suggests research presented at the American Epilepsy Society 71st Annual Meeting. The abstract is titled “Long-Term Seizure Control in Epileptic Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Positive Airway Pressure Therapy.” The most efficacious treatment for OSA is positive airway pressure therapy, also known as PAP or CPAP (referring to the continuous mode) therapy. “Sleep apnea is common in people with epilepsy, but few physicians screen for it,” says Thapanee Somboon, MD, lead …
Treating Sleep Apnea May Subdue Seizures
– Study suggests CPAP benefit in epilepsy patients with OSA by Kristina Fiore, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today December 03, 2017 WASHINGTON — Treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may lower the risk of seizures in patients with epilepsy, researchers reported here. In a single-center study of patients treated at the Cleveland Clinic, a larger proportion of epilepsy patients with OSA who had CPAP therapy reported at least a 50% reduction in seizures from baseline at 1 year compared with those who weren’t treated, and with those who didn’t have OSA (63% versus 14% and 44%), according to …
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