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PURPOSE: While forehead cooling has been studied in patients with insomnia in the absence of comorbid medical/psychiatric disorders, it has never been evaluated in patients with insomnia in the presence of co-morbid medical/psychiatric disorders. METHODS: Veterans with chronic insomnia disorder and co-morbid medical and psychiatric conditions received 4-week open-label, in-home, nightly treatment with a forehead cooling device (14-16 °C) along with personalized sleep hygiene following baseline assessments. Pre- and post-treatment, participants completed the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7), and the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item scale (PHQ-9). Participants recorded daily sleep and anxiety/arousal symptoms. RESULTS: Of 24 veterans (20 men, 42.2 ± 9.5 years), 17 (71%) had marked insomnia severity improvement (a decrease of > 8 on the ISI) and 10 (42%) participants scored 7 or below on the ISI at post-treatment reflecting remission. Participants reported reductions in sleep onset latency (SOL) (F = 12.9, p < 0.001), and wakefulness after sleep onset (WASO) (F = 8.4, p < 0.001) across treatment. They also had significant reductions in insomnia severity (t = 10.04, p < 0.001), anxiety (t = 3.59, p = 0.002), and depression (t = 7.75, p < 0.001) from pre- to post-treatment. CONCLUSION: This pilot study shows that 4-week nightly use of a forehead cooling device produces improvements in insomnia, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in veterans with chronic insomnia disorder and co-morbid medical and psychiatric conditions. Controlled studies are warranted to determine the role of this therapy in the management of insomnia in veterans. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Not required as a small sample size feasibility study.
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Crioterapia/métodos , Trastornos Mentales/complicaciones , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/terapia , Adulto , Frío , Crioterapia/instrumentación , Femenino , Frente , Humanos , Masculino , Proyectos Piloto , Resultado del Tratamiento , VeteranosRESUMEN
OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND: This pilot study explored the efficacy of a novel forehead cooling device for perceived sleep difficulties and hot flashes in menopausal-age women. PARTICIPANTS: 20 women (55.1 ± 4.2 years; 19 post-menopausal) with insomnia symptoms and self-reported two or more hot flashes per day. METHODS: Participants completed daily assessments of sleep and hot flashes (via diaries) across 1 baseline week and 4 weeks of open-label, in-home, nightly treatment with a forehead cooling device (15-18°C) along with sleep hygiene instructions. They also completed ratings of insomnia and menopausal symptoms using standardized questionnaires. RESULTS: Women reported reductions in sleep onset latency (SOL), wakefulness after sleep onset (WASO), and nocturnal hot flash severity during the first week of treatment (SOL: 25.7 ± 18.4 min; WASO: 36.3 ± 27.3 min; hot flash severity: 3.0 ± 2.8) compared with baseline (SOL: 38 ± 26.3 min; WASO: 52.2 ± 35.6 min; hot flash severity: 6.8 ± 3.7), with further improvements after 2-4 weeks of use (p < .001). There were also clinically meaningful reductions in insomnia severity and hot flash-related daily interference and lower psychological and physical symptom scores on the Greene climacteric scale after treatment (all p's<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: This exploratory, naturalistic, pilot study shows that nightly use of a forehead cooling device produces improvements in self-reported sleep and reductions in insomnia, hot flash, and other menopausal, symptoms. Controlled studies are warranted to determine the role of this therapy in the management of sleep difficulties and menopausal symptoms in women. Further mechanistic studies are needed to understand the physiological impact of forehead cooling on sleep and menopausal symptoms.
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Crioterapia , Frente , Sofocos/complicaciones , Sofocos/terapia , Menopausia , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/complicaciones , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/terapia , Femenino , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Proyectos PilotoRESUMEN
Electroencephalographic slow-wave activity (0.5-4 Hz) during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep is a marker for cortical reorganization, particularly within the prefrontal cortex. Greater slow wave activity during sleep may promote greater waking prefrontal metabolic rate and, in turn, executive function. However, this process may be affected by age. Here we examined whether greater NREM slow wave activity was associated with higher prefrontal metabolism during wakefulness and whether this relationship interacted with age. Fifty-two participants aged 25-61 years were enrolled into studies that included polysomnography and a (18) [F]-fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography scan during wakefulness. Absolute and relative measures of NREM slow wave activity were assessed. Semiquantitative and relative measures of cerebral metabolism were collected to assess whole brain and regional metabolism, focusing on two regions of interest: the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex. Greater relative slow wave activity was associated with greater dorsolateral prefrontal metabolism. Age and slow wave activity interacted significantly in predicting semiquantitative whole brain metabolism and outside regions of interest in the posterior cingulate, middle temporal gyrus and the medial frontal gyrus, such that greater slow-wave activity was associated with lower metabolism in the younger participants and greater metabolism in the older participants. These results suggest that slow-wave activity is associated with cerebral metabolism during wakefulness across the adult lifespan within regions important for executive function.
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Envejecimiento/metabolismo , Corteza Prefrontal/metabolismo , Sueño/fisiología , Adulto , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Electroencefalografía , Función Ejecutiva , Femenino , Glucosa/metabolismo , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Polisomnografía , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones , Vigilia/fisiologíaRESUMEN
Purpose of review: Sleep disturbance is common in TD. However, our understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved is preliminary. This review summarizes findings from neuroimaging, genetic, and animal studies to elucidate potential underlying mechanisms of sleep disruption in TD. Recent findings: Preliminary neuroimaging research indicates increased activity in the premotor cortex, and decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex is associated with NREM sleep in TD. Striatal dopamine exhibits a circadian rhythm; and is influenced by the suprachiasmatic nucleus via multiple molecular mechanisms. Conversely, dopamine receptors regulate circadian function and striatal expression of circadian genes. The association of TD with restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements indicates shared pathophysiology, including iron deficiency, and variants in the BTDB9 gene. A mutations in the L-Histidine Decarboxylase gene in TD, suggests the involvement of the histaminergic system, implicated in arousal, in TD. Summary: These biological markers have implications for application of novel, targeted interventions, including noninvasive neuromodulation, iron supplementation, histamine receptor antagonists, and circadian-based therapies for tic symptoms and/or sleep and circadian rhythms in TD.
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While insomnia is a well-established risk factor for the initial onset, recurrence or relapse of affective disorders, the specific characteristics of insomnia that confer risk remain unclear. Patients with insomnia with an evening chronotype may be one particularly high-risk group, perhaps due to alterations in positive affect and its related affective circuitry. We explored this possibility by comparing diurnal patterns of positive affect and the activity of positive affect-related brain regions in morning- and evening-types with insomnia. We assessed diurnal variation in brain activity via the relative regional cerebral metabolic rate of glucose uptake by using [(18) F]fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography during morning and evening wakefulness. We focused on regions in the medial prefrontal cortex and striatum, which have been consistently linked with positive affect and reward processing. As predicted, chronotypes differed in their daily patterns in both self-reported positive affect and associated brain regions. Evening-types displayed diurnal patterns of positive affect characterized by phase delay and smaller amplitude compared with those of morning-types with insomnia. In parallel, evening-types showed a reduced degree of diurnal variation in the metabolism of both the medial prefrontal cortex and the striatum, as well as lower overall metabolism in these regions across both morning and evening wakefulness. Taken together, these preliminary findings suggest that alterations in the diurnal activity of positive affect-related neural structures may underlie differences in the phase and amplitude of self-reported positive affect between morning and evening chronotypes, and may constitute one mechanism for increased risk of mood disorders among evening-type insomniacs.
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Ritmo Circadiano , Vías Nerviosas , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/fisiopatología , Adulto , Afecto , Femenino , Glucosa/metabolismo , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Modelos Biológicos , Neostriado/fisiología , Neostriado/fisiopatología , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones , Corteza Prefrontal/fisiología , Corteza Prefrontal/fisiopatología , Factores de Riesgo , Sueño/fisiología , Factores de Tiempo , Vigilia/fisiología , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Insomnia is a common clinical condition resulting in significant costs and morbidity. Previous models of insomnia focusing on psychological and behavioral processes are useful clinically, but lack neurobiological specificity. We propose an insomnia model based on basic and clinical neuroscience findings, and hypothesize that insomnia results from persistent activity in wake-promoting neural structures during NREM sleep. The simultaneous occurrence of sleeping and waking neural activity helps to explain clinical phenomenology and treatment effects in insomnia.
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OBJECTIVES: To determine in healthy people aged > or = 75 years 1) if restricting time in bed and education in health sleep practices are superior to an attention-only control condition (i.e., education in healthy dietary practices) for maintaining or enhancing sleep continuity and depth over 2.5 years; and 2) if maintenance or enhancement of sleep continuity and depth promotes the maintenance or enhancement of health-related quality of life. METHODS: Single-blind, randomized, clinical trial in a university-based sleep center, enrolling 64 adults (n = 30 women, 34 men; mean age = 79 years) without sleep/wake complaints (e.g., insomnia or daytime sleepiness), followed by randomized assignment to either: 1) restriction of time in bed by delaying bedtime 30 minutes nightly for 18 months, together with education in healthy sleep practices (SLEEP); or 2) attention-only control condition with education in health dietary practices (NUTRITION). RESULTS: SLEEP did not enhance sleep continuity or depth; however, compared with NUTRITION, SLEEP was associated with decreased time spent asleep (about 30 minutes nightly over 18 months). Contrary to hypothesis, participants in SLEEP reported a decrement in physical health-related quality of life and an increase in medical burden (cardiovascular illness), relative to NUTRITION. Neither markers of inflammation, body mass index, or exercise explained treatment-related changes in medical burden. CONCLUSIONS: Although we cannot exclude a positive effect of education in healthy nutrition, for healthy elderly >75 years of age without sleep complaints, reducing sleep time may be detrimental, whereas allowing more time to sleep (about 7.5 hours nightly) is associated with better maintenance of physical health-related quality of life and stability of medical illness burden over 30 months.
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Promoción de la Salud , Privación de Sueño , Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/terapia , Sueño/fisiología , Adaptación Psicológica , Factores de Edad , Anciano , Femenino , Evaluación Geriátrica , Estado de Salud , Humanos , Masculino , Polisomnografía , Calidad de Vida , Método Simple Ciego , Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/diagnóstico , Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/prevención & control , Apoyo Social , Encuestas y CuestionariosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Restricting time in bed improves insomnia symptoms, but the neural mechanisms for this effect are unknown. Total and partial acute sleep restriction may be useful paradigms for elucidating these effects. We examined the impact of acute sleep restriction on cerebral glucose metabolism during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in individuals with primary insomnia (n = 17) and good sleep (n = 19). METHODS: Participants underwent [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scans during baseline and recovery NREM sleep following one night of partial or total sleep restriction. We compared group differences in baseline-recovery changes, as well as main effects of group and condition (baseline vs. recovery NREM sleep), for relative regional cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (rCMRglc), whole-brain glucose metabolism, and sleep quality. RESULTS: Relative rCMRglc was significantly lower during recovery NREM sleep compared to baseline in the left frontoparietal cortex, medial frontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and thalamus, with no significant group differences. Good sleepers, but not insomnia patients, had lower whole-brain glucose metabolism during recovery NREM sleep compared to baseline. Acute sleep restriction improved sleep quality in individual with insomnia. Subgroup analyses including only participants who underwent partial sleep restriction yielded the same pattern of findings. CONCLUSION: Individuals with insomnia and good sleepers showed similar relative rCMRglc responses to acute sleep restriction. Brain regions showing the greatest baseline-recovery changes in both groups included regions previously shown to have smaller sleep-wake differences in patients with primary insomnia. Acute sleep restriction, and by extension sleep restriction therapy, may impact regional metabolic alterations that characterize insomnia.
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Corteza Cerebral/metabolismo , Glucosa/metabolismo , Recuperación de la Función/fisiología , Privación de Sueño/metabolismo , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/metabolismo , Fases del Sueño/fisiología , Adulto , Corteza Cerebral/diagnóstico por imagen , Electroencefalografía/métodos , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Polisomnografía/métodos , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones/métodos , Privación de Sueño/diagnóstico por imagen , Privación de Sueño/fisiopatología , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/fisiopatología , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare NREM EEG power in primary insomnia (PI) and good sleeper controls (GSC), examining both sex and NREM period effects; to examine relationships between EEG power, clinical characteristics, and self-reports of sleep. DESIGN: Overnight polysomnographic study. SETTING: Sleep laboratory. PARTICIPANTS: PI (n=48; 29 women) and GSC (n=25; 15 women). INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS: EEG power from 1-50 Hz was computed for artifact-free sleep epochs across four NREM periods. Repeated measures mixed effect models contrasted differences between groups, EEG frequency bands, and NREM periods. EEG power-frequency curves were modeled using regressions with fixed knot splines. RESULTS: Mixed models showed no significant group (PI vs. GSC) differences; marginal sex differences (delta and theta bands); significant differences across NREM periods; and group*sex and group*NREM period interactions, particularly in beta and gamma bands. Modeled power-frequency curves showed no group difference in whole-night NREM, but PI had higher power than GSC from 18-40 Hz in the first NREM period. Among women, PI had higher 16 to 44-Hz power than GSC in the first 3 NREM periods, and higher 3 to 5-Hz power across all NREM periods. PI and GSC men showed no consistent differences in EEG power. High-frequency EEG power was not related to clinical or subjective sleep ratings in PI. CONCLUSIONS: Women with PI, but not men, showed increased high-frequency and low-frequency EEG activity during NREM sleep compared to GSC, particularly in early NREM periods. Sex and NREM period may moderate quantitative EEG differences between PI and GSC.
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Electroencefalografía , Procesamiento de Señales Asistido por Computador , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/fisiopatología , Fases del Sueño/fisiología , Adulto , Afecto/fisiología , Nivel de Alerta/fisiología , Corteza Cerebral/fisiopatología , Femenino , Análisis de Fourier , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Polisomnografía , Valores de Referencia , Factores Sexuales , Vigilia/fisiología , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent disorder that is associated with poor clinical and health outcomes, and considerable health care utilization and costs. Recent estimates suggest that 5-20% of military personnel who serve in current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Clinically, sleep disturbances are core features of PTSD that are often resistant to first-line treatments, independently contribute to poor daytime functioning, and often require sleep-focused treatments. Physiologically, these observations suggest that PTSD is partially mediated by sleep disruption and its neurobiological correlates that are not adequately addressed by first-line treatments. However, polysomnographic studies have provided limited insights into the neurobiological underpinnings of PTSD during sleep. There is an urgent need to apply state-of-the-science sleep measurement methods to bridge the apparent gap between the clinical significance of sleep disturbances in PTSD and the limited understanding of their neurobiological underpinnings. Here, we propose an integrative review of findings derived from neurobiological models of fear conditioning and fear extinction, PTSD, and sleep-wake regulation, suggesting that the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex can directly contribute to sleep disturbances in PTSD. Testable hypotheses regarding the neurobiological underpinnings of PTSD across the sleep-wake cycle are offered.
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Trastornos de Combate/fisiopatología , Trastornos del Sueño del Ritmo Circadiano/fisiopatología , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/fisiopatología , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático/fisiopatología , Amígdala del Cerebelo/fisiopatología , Animales , Nivel de Alerta/fisiología , Trastornos de Combate/diagnóstico , Trastornos de Combate/terapia , Condicionamiento Clásico/fisiología , Sueños/fisiología , Extinción Psicológica/fisiología , Miedo/fisiología , Humanos , Red Nerviosa/fisiopatología , Corteza Prefrontal/fisiopatología , Trastornos del Sueño del Ritmo Circadiano/diagnóstico , Trastornos del Sueño del Ritmo Circadiano/terapia , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/diagnóstico , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/terapia , Sueño REM/fisiología , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático/psicología , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático/terapiaRESUMEN
Although psychological stress has been associated with disturbed sleep in younger populations, little is known about the stress-sleep relationship in late-life. In the present study, we evaluated relationships among a chronic stressor, ongoing financial strain, and sleep in a heterogenous sample (n=75) of community-dwelling elders (mean age=74.0 years). Self-report measures included ongoing financial strain, mental health, physical health and subjective sleep quality. Sleep duration, continuity, and architecture were measured by polysomnography (PSG). Analysis of variance and regression were used to test the hypothesis that ongoing financial strain is a significant correlate of disturbed sleep in the elderly. Covariates included age, sex, mental health and physical health. Analyses revealed that ongoing financial strain is a significant correlate of PSG-assessed sleep latency, wakefulness after sleep onset, and sleep efficiency. After adjusting for the effects of age, sex, mental health, and physical health on sleep, ongoing financial strain was associated with lower sleep efficiency (p<.01). Our results show that chronic stress, as measured by ongoing financial strain, is a significant correlate of sleep disturbances in the elderly, even after adjusting for factors known to impact sleep in late-life.
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Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/economía , Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/psicología , Estrés Psicológico/economía , Estrés Psicológico/psicología , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Polisomnografía , Análisis de Regresión , Sueño/fisiología , Fases del Sueño/fisiología , Encuestas y CuestionariosRESUMEN
Study Objectives: Insomnia is one of the most common disorders in the general population. Hypnotic medications are efficacious, but their use is limited by adverse events (AEs). This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of a novel forehead temperature-regulating device that delivers frontal cerebral thermal therapy (maintained at 14-16°C, equivalent to 57-61°F) for the treatment of insomnia. Methods: This was a prospective, randomized controlled trial involving two nights of therapy in 106 adults diagnosed with insomnia. The main outcome measures included latency to persistent sleep and sleep efficiency derived from polysomnographic (PSG) recordings and frequency and severity of AEs. Results: The safety profile was comparable to sham treatment. Statistically significant differences were not found in the two a priori co-primary endpoint measures absolute latency to persistent sleep (p = 0.092) or absolute sleep efficiency. Frontal cerebral thermal therapy produced improvements over sham in other convergent measures of sleep latency including relative changes from baseline in latency to persistent sleep (p = 0.013), the latency to stage 1 NREM sleep (p = 0.006), the latency to stage 2 NREM sleep (p = 0.002), a trend for the latency to stage 3 NREM sleep (p = 0.055), and an increase in the minutes of sleep during the first hour of the night (p = 0.024). Conclusions: Two-night frontal cerebral thermal therapy produced improvements in PSG measures of insomnia patients' ability to fall asleep and had a benign safety profile. Further studies are warranted to determine the role of this therapy in the longer-term management of insomnia. Trial Registration: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01966211.
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Frente/fisiología , Calefacción/métodos , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/terapia , Sueño/fisiología , Adulto , Regulación de la Temperatura Corporal , Femenino , Humanos , Hipnóticos y Sedantes , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Polisomnografía , Estudios Prospectivos , Latencia del Sueño , Temperatura , Resultado del TratamientoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: This study compared diurnal variation in mood and regional cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (rCMRglc) in depressed and healthy subjects. METHODS: Depressed and healthy subjects were investigated using [18F]-fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography scans during morning and evening wakefulness. All subjects completed subjective mood ratings at both times of day. Statistical parametric mapping was used to compare rCMRglc between the two groups across time of day. RESULTS: Depressed patients showed evening mood improvements compared with healthy subjects. Compared with healthy subjects, depressed patients showed smaller increases in rCMRglc during evening relative to morning wakefulness in lingual and fusiform cortices, midbrain reticular formation, and locus coeruleus and greater increases in rCMRglc in parietal and temporal cortices. Depressed patients had hypermetabolism in limbic-paralimbic regions and hypometabolism in frontal and parietal cortex at both times of day compared with healthy subjects. CONCLUSIONS: Variation in rCMRglc differs across times of day in depressed and healthy subjects. In depressed patients, evening mood improvements were associated with increased metabolic activity in ventral limbic-paralimbic, parietal, temporal, and frontal regions and in the cerebellum. This increased metabolic pattern during evening wakefulness may reflect partial normalization of primary and compensatory neural systems involved in affect production and regulation.
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Encéfalo/metabolismo , Ritmo Circadiano , Depresión/metabolismo , Depresión/patología , Glucosa/metabolismo , Adulto , Análisis de Varianza , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/patología , Mapeo Encefálico , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Electroencefalografía/métodos , Femenino , Fluorodesoxiglucosa F18/farmacocinética , Humanos , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética/métodos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones/métodos , Factores de Tiempo , Vigilia/fisiologíaRESUMEN
OBJECTIVES: To prospectively characterize and compare daytime symptoms in primary insomnia (PI) and good sleeper control (GSC) subjects using ecological momentary assessment; to examine relationships between daytime symptom factors, retrospective psychological and sleep reports, and concurrent sleep diary reports. METHODS: Subjects included 47 PI and 18 GSC. Retrospective self-reports of daytime and sleep symptoms were collected. Daytime symptoms and sleep diary information were then collected for 1 week on hand-held computers. The Daytime Insomnia Symptom Scale (DISS) consisted of 19 visual analog scales completed four times per day. Factors for the DISS were derived using functional principal components analysis. Nonparametric tests were used to contrast DISS, retrospective symptom ratings, and sleep diary results in PI and GSC subjects, and to examine relationships among them. RESULTS: Four principal components were identified for the DISS: Alert Cognition, Negative Mood, Positive Mood, and Sleepiness/Fatigue. PI scored significantly worse than GSC on all four factors (p<0.0003 for each). Among PI subjects DISS scales and retrospective psychological symptoms were related to each other in plausible ways. DISS factors were also related to self-report measures of sleep, whereas retrospective psychological symptom measures were not. CONCLUSIONS: Daytime symptom factors of alertness, positive and negative mood, and sleepiness/fatigue, collected with ecological momentary assessment, showed impairment in PI versus GSC. DISS factors showed stronger relationships to retrospective sleep symptoms and concurrent sleep diary reports than retrospective psychological symptoms. The diurnal pattern of symptoms may inform studies of the pathophysiology and treatment outcome of insomnia.
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Afecto , Nivel de Alerta , Ritmo Circadiano , Computadoras de Mano , Fatiga/psicología , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/diagnóstico , Medio Social , Vigilia , Adulto , Recolección de Datos/estadística & datos numéricos , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Estudios Prospectivos , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Estudios Retrospectivos , Autorrevelación , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/psicologíaRESUMEN
Objectives: Sleep discrepancies are common in primary insomnia (PI) and include reports of longer sleep onset latency (SOL) than measured by polysomnography (PSG) or "negative SOL discrepancy." We hypothesized that negative SOL discrepancy in PI would be associated with higher relative glucose metabolism during nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in brain networks involved in conscious awareness, including the salience, left executive control, and default mode networks. Methods: PI (n = 32) and good sleeper controls (GS; n = 30) completed [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) scans during NREM sleep, and relative regional cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (rCMRglc) was measured. Sleep discrepancy was calculated by subtracting PSG-measured SOL on the PET night from corresponding self-report values the following morning. We tested for interactions between group (PI vs. GS) and SOL discrepancy for rCMRglc during NREM sleep using both a region of interest mask and exploratory whole-brain analyses. Results: Significant group by SOL discrepancy interactions for rCMRglc were observed in several brain regions (pcorrected < .05 for all clusters). In the PI group, more negative SOL discrepancy (self-reported > PSG-measured SOL) was associated with significantly higher relative rCMRglc in the right anterior insula and middle/posterior cingulate during NREM sleep. In GS, more positive SOL discrepancy (self-reported < PSG-measured SOL) was associated with significantly higher relative rCMRglc in the right anterior insula, left anterior cingulate cortex, and middle/posterior cingulate cortex. Conclusions: Although preliminary, these findings suggest regions of the brain previously shown to be involved in conscious awareness, and the perception of PSG-defined states may also be involved in the phenomena of SOL discrepancy.
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Encéfalo/metabolismo , Glucosa/metabolismo , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/metabolismo , Adulto , Concienciación , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Corteza Cerebral/metabolismo , Femenino , Giro del Cíngulo/metabolismo , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Polisomnografía , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones , Autoinforme , Sueño , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/fisiopatologíaRESUMEN
Broad evidence from preclinical and clinical research indicates that cholinergic neurotransmission contributes significantly to the generation of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. However, a potential role of different acetylcholine receptor (AChR) subtypes for the regulation of three main aspects of REM sleep, (1) REM onset, (2) REM maintenance, and (3) generation of REMs, are not clear. In the present double-blind, randomized and placebo-controlled study, we investigated the differential effects of the M1 muscarinic AChR (mAChR) agonist RS-86 and the ACh-esterase inhibitor donepezil to further specify the AChR subtype function on REM sleep regulation in n = 20 healthy volunteers. We found that RS-86 selectively shortened REM latency (multivariate analysis of variance post hoc contrast p = 0.024 compared to placebo, not significant for donepezil) and that donepezil specifically enhanced the duration of REM sleep (% sleep period time, p = 0.000 compared to placebo; p = 0.003 compared to RS-86) and the number of REMs (p = 0.000 compared to placebo; p = 0.000 compared to RS-86). These results provide evidence that the onset of REM sleep is, in part, mediated by M1 mAChR activity, whereas the maintenance of REM sleep and the number of REMs are mediated by non-M1, but presumably M2 mAChR activity. These findings are of interest for the understanding of sleep regulation and of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Alzheimer's dementia and depressive disorders, whose etiopathology may involve alterations in cholinergic neurotransmission.
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Inhibidores de la Colinesterasa/farmacología , Indanos/farmacología , Piperidinas/farmacología , Receptor Muscarínico M1/agonistas , Sueño REM/efectos de los fármacos , Succinimidas/farmacología , Adulto , Donepezilo , Método Doble Ciego , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Análisis Multivariante , Tiempo de Reacción/efectos de los fármacosRESUMEN
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare sleep-related consolidation of procedural memory in patients with primary insomnia and healthy controls. DESIGN: Controlled comparison pilot study. SETTING: Sleep Laboratory of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany. PATIENTS OR PARTICIPANTS: Seven patients with primary insomnia and 7 sex-, age-, and IQ-matched healthy controls. INTERVENTIONS: Subjects spent 1 night in the sleep laboratory with polysomnographic monitoring. Performance on a mirror tracing task was measured before and after sleep. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Polysomnography revealed a trend toward disturbed sleep in the patients, compared with the control group, without reaching significance. Performance in the mirror tracing task before sleep did not differ between the groups. Both groups performed significantly better in the retest condition after sleep. Healthy controls showed an improvement of 42.8% +/- 5.8% in the mirror tracing draw time, whereas patients with insomnia showed an improvement of 20.4% +/- 14.8% (multivariate analyses of variance test session x group interaction: F(3,10) = 10.9, p = .002). CONCLUSIONS: These preliminary findings support the view that sleep-associated consolidation of procedural memories may be impaired in patients with primary insomnia.
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Lateralidad Funcional , Orientación , Reconocimiento Visual de Modelos , Desempeño Psicomotor , Retención en Psicología , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/psicología , Adulto , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Recuerdo Mental , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Proyectos Piloto , Polisomnografía , Tiempo de Reacción , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/diagnósticoRESUMEN
Laboratory-based sleep studies have yielded inconsistent results regarding the presence and nature of objective sleep anomalies in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This pilot study aimed at assessing sleep in adult crime victims with PTSD by using in-home polysomnography. Compared to healthy archival subjects, PTSD subjects showed longer sleep latency, reduced total sleep time, and increased duration of nocturnal awakening. Quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) measures of delta and beta activity also differed in PTSD and healthy subjects. These preliminary findings suggest that ambulatory methods can capture objective signs of sleep disruption, and corroborate subjective complaints of disrupted sleep in PTSD.
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Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/etiología , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático/complicaciones , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático/psicología , Adulto , Electroencefalografía , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Proyectos Piloto , Polisomnografía , Desempeño Psicomotor/fisiologíaRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Depression is associated with sleep disturbances, including alterations in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Non-rapid eye movement sleep is associated with decreases in frontal, parietal, and temporal cortex metabolic activity compared with wakefulness. OBJECTIVE: To show that depressed patients would have less of a decrease than controls in frontal metabolism between waking and NREM sleep and to show that during NREM sleep, they would have increased activity in structures that promote arousal. DESIGN: Subjects completed electroencephalographic sleep and regional cerebral glucose metabolism assessments during both waking and NREM sleep using [(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography. SETTING: General clinical research center. PATIENTS: The study included 29 unmedicated patients who met the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV criteria for current major depression and who had a score of 15 or greater on a 17-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and 28 medically healthy subjects of comparable age and sex who were free of mental disorders. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Electroencephalographic sleep and regional cerebral metabolism during waking and NREM sleep. RESULTS: Depressed patients showed smaller decreases than healthy subjects in relative metabolism in broad regions of the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortex from waking to NREM sleep. Depressed patients showed larger decreases than healthy subjects in relative metabolism in the left amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, cerebellum, parahippocampal cortex, fusiform gyrus, and occipital cortex. However, in post hoc analyses, depressed patients showed hypermetabolism in these areas during both waking and NREM sleep. CONCLUSIONS: The smaller decrease in frontal metabolism from waking to NREM sleep in depressed patients is further evidence for a dynamic sleep-wake alteration in prefrontal cortex function in depression. Hypermetabolism in a ventral emotional neural system during waking in depressed patients persists into NREM sleep.
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Corteza Cerebral/metabolismo , Trastorno Depresivo/diagnóstico , Glucosa/metabolismo , Sueño/fisiología , Vigilia/fisiología , Adulto , Nivel de Alerta/fisiología , Mapeo Encefálico , Corteza Cerebral/diagnóstico por imagen , Corteza Cerebral/fisiología , Trastorno Depresivo/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastorno Depresivo/metabolismo , Electroencefalografía/estadística & datos numéricos , Femenino , Fluorodesoxiglucosa F18 , Lóbulo Frontal/metabolismo , Lóbulo Frontal/fisiología , Lateralidad Funcional/fisiología , Humanos , Masculino , Lóbulo Parietal/diagnóstico por imagen , Lóbulo Parietal/metabolismo , Lóbulo Parietal/fisiología , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones , Lóbulo Temporal/diagnóstico por imagen , Lóbulo Temporal/metabolismo , Lóbulo Temporal/fisiología , Distribución TisularRESUMEN
Compared to younger adults, seniors (> or = 60 yrs) often adopt a highly regular lifestyle, perhaps as an adaptive response to age-related changes in their sleep and circadian rhythms. At baseline, diary measures of lifestyle regularity (SRM-5) were obtained from 104 seniors of three separate groups. Thirty-three subjects were challenged by spousal bereavement or the need to care for a spouse at home with dementia (Challenged); 33 were suffering from formally diagnosed (DSM-IV) insomnia (Insomnia); and 38 were healthy, well-functioning older seniors in the second half of their eighth decade of life or later (Healthy Older). The objective of this study was to determine whether lifestyle regularity increased as a function of age within each of these three senior groups. Overall, age was significantly correlated with SRM-5 (r=0.41, p<0.001), with the SRM score increasing by 0.67 units/decade. The same was true for the Challenged and Insomnia groups, which also showed a significant correlation between SRM and age (Challenged: r=0.48, p<0.01; Insomnia: r=0.36, p<0.05), though with a slightly faster rate of SRM increase in the Challenged (0.95 units/decade) than Insomnia (0.55 units/decade) group. Perhaps there was no correlation between age and SRM (r=0.07, n.s.) in the Healthy Older group due to the small age range, although this group did have a higher overall SRM score than the other two groups (p<0.01). The study thus confirmed that the previously observed increase in lifestyle regularity over the adult lifespan persists into later life. This may represent an adaptive behavioral response that might be used in future therapeutic approaches.