Sleep Disorders

Tracking mandibular movements is a useful tool when measuring the efficacy of oral appliance therapy in obstructive sleep apnea.

The need to nap for long stretches may be a reflection of an underlying health problem.

The neurologist discussed an analysis of findings suggesting that opiate agonists may have a role in the treatment of narcolepsy.

Neurology News Network for the week of November 3, 2018.

People of all ages occasionally report recurrent dreams, and there is an established association between negative dreams and daytime anxiety.

The study presents direct evidence that subjective experiences of insomnia may be coupled to the REM sleep state.

Sodium oxybate is the first therapy approved to treat cataplexy or excessive daytime sleepiness in pediatrics with narcolepsy 7 years of age and older.

Heidbreder further described the current understanding of the condition and what she and her colleagues have found out.

The Psychiatrist at Psychiatric Services Solothurn and University of Basel discussed how heart rate variability correlates with sleep stages, which may indicate nocturnal brain activity.

Botulinum toxin was found to improve restless leg syndrome in the largest, well-controlled study of the investigational intervention to date.

Under treatment, the dynamic of REM sleep related heart rate variability shows early changes during the first week, providing a promising biomarker of treatment.

The Associate Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer at SleepMed emphasized that clinicians need to recognize the impact of sleepiness in terms of quality of life.

Impairment of physiological spindle activity in the hippocampus during NREM sleep by interictal epileptic activities may have negative consequences on long-term memory consolidation.

Those suffering from significant emotional distress and sleep disturbances may benefit from targeted interventions to restore consolidated REM sleep or prevent the occurrence of fragmented REM sleep.

Both doses of lemborexant reduced subjective sleep onset latency for patients with insomnia.

Strategies and take-home points on sleep paralysis and its counterpart, isolated sleep paralysis, a REM sleep-related parasomnia commonly associated with intense fear and anxiety.

The postdoctoral scientist spoke about an actimetry-based method studying the clinical relevance of temporal dynamics of sleep to make the dynamics easily quantifiable in everyday context.

The medical coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Antwerp University Hospital spoke about how to address some of the issues faced in OSA treatment development.

The identification of the subtypes allows future studies to target homogeneous subtype samples, resolve inconsistencies, personalize treatment and utilize preventive interventions.

The restless leg syndrome expert spoke about the commonality of both pediatric and adult patients oftentimes misdiagnosed or undiagnosed with RLS.

Proof-of-concept studies using a targeted phenotypic approach to reduce obstructive sleep apnea severity are showing exciting results.

The identification of 3 key non-anatomical contributors to OSA has unlocked new potential pharmacotherapies, a major advance for the field.

Recent research has identified novel potential pathophysiological mechanisms that could potentially serve to subclassify various phenotypes in obstructive sleep apnea.

The actimetry-based method allows for easily quantifiable sleep dynamics in real life context, enabling large-scale clinical studies to investigate the complex temporal dynamics of sleep.

Long-term maintenance of efficacy was demonstrated with solriamfetol for treatment of excessive sleepiness with narcolepsy or obstructive sleep apnea.