2023 December - 13 articles
Biological, environmental, behavioral, and social factors can influence sleep and lead to sleep disorders or diseases. Sleep disorders are common, numerous, and heterogeneous in terms of their etiology, pathogenesis, and symptomatology. The managemen...
Background: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been shown to improve the outcomes of certain stroke patients. Our objective was to assess the feasibility of employing HBOT in daily practice in unselected stroke patients with mild-to-moderate residu...
Rocking devices are widely used across different age groups to facilitate sleep. This review discusses the current literature on rocking devices and how passive vestibular stimulation influences sleep architecture, sleep oscillations, and cognitive p...
On behalf of the SNS and SSNS, we are pleased to present the abstracts of the Joint Annual Meeting to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, on 23–24 November, 2023. In total, 119 abstracts have been selected: 4 abstracts for the Plenary Sessions, 12...
The brain and its health are essential for our (physical mental, social, and spiritual) wellbeing, for being able to realize our potential as individuals, and also for a fair, well-functioning, and productive society. However, today the world is faci...
Sleep studies in psychiatric disorders date back to the first half of the 20th century. So far, success in establishing disease-specific sleep-related biomarkers has been quite limited. This is particularly obvious regarding insomnia, where there is...
The thalamus, and its projections to the cerebral cortex, are crucial for regulating sleep rhythms, such as sleep spindles, and for maintaining arousal and sleep homeostasis. Moreover, they play a significant role in memory, executive functioning, an...
Although parasomnias are nocturnal phenomena occurring during sleep or during arousals from sleep, there is increasing evidence that they are associated with daytime dysfunction as well. However, systematic studies in this field are scarce. The aim o...
Corrugator muscle activity with pressure pain stimulation has not yet been studied. We recorded corrugator muscle activity at rest and before, during and after pressure pain stimulation to the shoulder three times each in 14 healthy adults (20.0 &plu...
Shift workers are vulnerable to circadian misalignment, sleep disturbance and increased risk of impaired health. Studies concerning the sleep and health of individuals working shifts in the financial sector are lacking. We investigated sleep quality,...
PAPT syndrome is a rare neurologic disorder characterized by progressive ataxia and palatal tremor (rhythmic movements of the soft palate). The first large study of PAPT patients was published in 2004, included a total of 28 sporadic PAPT cases, and...
The Swiss Narcolepsy Network (SNaNe) was founded in 2017 as a non-profit organization with the vision of improving the care of patients with narcolepsy, central disorders of hypersomnolence (CDH), and rare sleep disorders. The SNaNe aims at maximizin...
Chronic insomnia (insomnia disorder—ID) afflicts up to 10% of the adult population, increases with age and affects more women than men. ID is associated with significant daytime impairments and an increased risk for developing major somatic and...
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