Sleep Disorders: From Clinical Research to Daily Practice
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2023) | Viewed by 14528
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: cerebrovascular diseases; cognitive impairment and dementia; neuropsychiatric disorders; sleep disorders; gluten-related neuropathology; clinical neurophysiology; transcranial magnetic stimulation; neurosonology; neuroplasticity; translational neurosciences
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Interests: neurology; sleep medicine; movement disorders
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, there has been significant progress in the understanding of the pathophysiology underlying some sleep disorders, such as restless legs syndrome (RLS) and REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), especially their electrophysiological basis and the possibility to non-invasively neuromodulate them.
Gaining novel insights into the complex interactions between central and peripheral neural circuits in the generation of symptoms of RLS is mandatory for a better diagnostic refinement. Further insight is provided by the effectiveness of some non-pharmacological tools, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, and transcutaneous direct spinal stimulation, thereby extending the therapeutic arsenal. Regarding RBD, new methods that specifically explore and possibly measure other alterations beyond the brainstem are relevant to determine whether a prodromic neurodegenerative disorder underlies this condition occurring even at the stage of isolated RBD.
In this Special Issue, we focus on the neurophysiological correlates of sensory-motor network involved in RLS and the cortical–brainstem connections implicated in RBD in order to provide new translational insights into their pathophysiological mechanisms and to guide new pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments.
Dr. Giuseppe Lanza
Dr. Michela Figorilli
Dr. Francesco Fisicaro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sleep medicine
- sleep disorders
- restless legs syndrome
- REM sleep behaviour disorder
- sensory-motor network
- neurodegeneration
- non-invasive brain stimulation
- transcranial magnetic stimulation
- transcranial direct-current stimulation
- transcutaneous direct spinal stimulation
- clinical neurophysiology
- neural plasticity
- neurotransmission
- neuropsychiatry
- neuropharmacology
- translational neuroscience
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