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Sleep quality and cognitive performance in 8-year-old children. - Paavonen EJ, Räikkönen K, Pesonen AK, Lahti J, Komsi N, Heinonen K, Järvenpää AL, Strandberg T, Kajantie E, Porkka-Heiskanen T.
OBJECTIVE: The present study examined how sleep duration and sleep quality are associated with cognitive performance in 8-year-old children using standardized neurocognitive tests. METHODS: Two hundred ninety children aged 7.4-8.8years participated in the ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.
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Sleep Habits Differ by Ethnicity
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New polls report more differences than similarities in sleep habits among four major ethnic groups. (Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com)
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Anaesthesia with a combination of ketamine and medetomidine in the rabbit: effect of premedication with buprenorphine
Conclusion and clinical relevance Premedication with buprenorphine significantly increased the duration of anaesthesia induced by K/M, with no significant depression of respiration further to the control treatment within the first 10 minutes of anaesthesia. The MAP decreased but this was not reflected in a difference in other physiological parameters. These data show that premedication with buprenorphine, before K/M anaesthesia in the rabbit, has few negative effects and may provide beneficial analgesia. (Source: Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia)
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Dentofacial characteristics as indicator of obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome in patients with severe obesity
Obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS) is a complex disease with a multifactor aetiology. OSAHS is strongly associated with obesity, but there are many other clinical risk factors, such as the dentofacial characteristics of hard and soft tissues, hyoid bone position, neck circumference, upper airway spaces and nasal respiration. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out involving 13 patients (one man and 12 women) with severe obesity in order to evaluate specific physical dentofacial characteristics through a cephalometric examination. Cephalometry was analysed using 29 measurements of the hard and soft tissues of the craniofacial structures and dimensions of the upper airways. The demographic data revealed a mean body mass index of 48 ± 6.26 kg m[minus]2 and cervic...
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Sanford-Brown College adding sleep science program, lab
Sanford-Brown College has added a sleep medicine and technology program at its Fenton campus. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
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Shift Work Can Put a Crimp on Sleep
If changing jobs isn't an option, modifying behavior may help, expert says
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Occupational Health, Sleep Disorders (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.
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Update in Sleep Medicine 2009.
Authors: Mokhlesi B, Gozal D
PMID: 20208040 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Am J Respir Crit Car...)
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An Official ATS Clinical Policy Statement: Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome: Genetic Basis, Diagnosis, and Management.
Conclusions: A PHOX2B mutation is required to confirm the diagnosis of CCHS. Knowledge of the specific PHOX2B mutation aids in anticipating the CCHS phenotype severity. Parents of patients with CCHS should be tested for PHOX2B mutations. Maintaining a high index of suspicion in cases of unexplained alveolar hypoventilation will likely identify a higher incidence of milder cases of CCHS. Recommended management options aimed toward maximizing safety and optimizing neurocognitive outcome include: (1) biannual then annual in-hospital comprehensive evaluation with (i) physiologic studies during awake and asleep states to assess ventilatory needs during varying levels of activity and concentration, in all stages of sleep, with spontaneous breathing, and with artificial ventilation, and to assess...
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Dance and Medicine
The mid-point of medical residency is probably the bleakest point in medical training. The daily grind of death and disease wears young doctors down, and the end of residency seems impossibly far off. In the second year of my residency at Bellevue Hospital, I began taking dance class at the Martha Graham studio in Manhattan. It turned out to be an unexpectedly visceral lifesaver for me. Here is an excerpt from the essay, “Pas de Deux,” which appears in the new anthology from “Becoming a Doctor,” edited by Lee Gutkind. (Norton, 2010.) “One day, after a long night in the ICU, I rushed straight to dance class, leotards under my scrubs. I had spent the bulk of my last thirty hours with Nilsa, a young woman dying of HIV. Nilsa’s body was ravaged by bacterial, vira...
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The Rainbow Bridge
I put my best friend to sleep last night. Newton was a pug. He wasn't the prettiest, and certainly not the friendliest of dogs. Most of his teeth had rotted away from a lifetime of mouth breathing. And in his last few months he was paralyzed from the waist down. Even so, he would still charge the mailman, who strangely was not amused by the threat of being gummed by a smelly, apple-headed pug in a wheelchair.I knew this day was coming. But it didn't lessen the impact or the hole in my heart he has left. As I laid Newton in his grave, he gave one last snort. I know it was the remaining air in his lungs being expelled, but I like to think it was his soul crossing the Rainbow Bridge, which both gives me comfort and makes me intensely sad. I will miss you my friend...The Rainbow Bridge(Author...
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Does adenoid hypertrophy really have effect on tympanometry?
Conclusion: The adenoid hypertrophy in both means of radiologic measurements and symptom severity does not correlate with the changes in tympanograms. These findings do not support the hypothesis that adenoidal size plays a major role in the etiopathogenesis of middle ear effusion (MEE). (Source: International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.
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Seminars in Neurology Tops Medscapes Most-Read List
In February, Seminars in Neurology was ranked among Medscape's top articles most read by neurologists. February's rankings placed Antonio Culebras' article Sleep and Stroke at the very top of their list - as the most read article in neurology! You can now read Dr Culebras' review of stroke risk factors, sleep and sleep apnea for free! (Source: Thieme-connect - The Quality Choice in Medical and Scientific Information)
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Obesity and Sleep Disorders: Implications for Bariatric Patients
Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care Mar 2010, Vol. 5, No. 1: 75-79. (Source: Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care)
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NxStage Announces New FREEDOM Data Showing The Positive Impact Of Its Daily Home Hemodialysis Therapy On Sleep Quality And Restless Legs Syndrome
Booths # 23-25 at the Annual Dialysis Conference -- NxStage Medical, Inc... (Source: Medical Devices News From Medical News Today)
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NxStage Announces New FREEDOM Data Showing The Positive Impact Of Its Daily Home Hemodialysis Therapy On Sleep Quality And Restless Legs Syndrome
Booths # 23-25 at the Annual Dialysis Conference -- NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, announced the latest interim results from its ongoing FREEDOM study, which show the significant improvement of overall sleep quality and marked improvement in Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) experienced by patients after four months of daily home hemodialysis therapy with the NxStage System One™... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Vital Signs: New Study Finds Many Americans Say They’re Too Tired for Sex
A National Sleep Foundation report on ethnic groups’ habits found responses on tiredness and sex were similar for most groups. (Source: NYT > Health)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.
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Sleep Habits Vary by Ethnicity
Sleep problems and sleep habits vary among different ethnic groups, according to a new national survey. But among all ethnicities, there remains a common denominator: Many of us simply don't get enough sleep. (Source: WebMD Health)
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Prospective Associations of Insomnia Markers and Symptoms With Depression
Whether insomnia, a known correlate of depression, predicts depression longitudinally warrants elucidation. The authors examined 555 Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study participants aged 33–71 years without baseline depression or antidepressant use who completed baseline and follow-up overnight polysomnography and had complete questionnaire-based data on insomnia and depression for 1998–2006. Using Poisson regression, they estimated relative risks for depression (Zung scale score ≥50) at 4-year (average) follow-up according to baseline insomnia symptoms and polysomnographic markers. Twenty-six participants (4.7%) developed depression by follow-up. Having 3–4 insomnia symptoms versus none predicted depression risk (age-, sex-, and comorbidity-adjusted relative risk (RR) = 3.2,...
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Re: "cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between objectively measured sleep duration and body mass index: the cardia sleep study"
(Source: American Journal of Epidemiology)
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Why Do Some People Sleepwalk?
THAT’S THE WHY:FOR MOST of us, a night’s sleep means we stay put, more or less. But not for others. Some people have been reported to carry out quite extraordinary feats in their sleep – from walking around to cleaning the house, driving a car and even carrying out violent attacks. Then on waking, the person has no recollection of it. (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
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Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain
series:Springer Series in Computational NeuroscienceThe induction of unconsciousness using anesthetic drugs demonstrates that the cerebral cortex can operate in two very different modes: alert and responsive versus unaware and quiescent. But the states of wakefulness and sleep are not single-neuron properties---they emerge as bulk properties of cooperating populations of neurons, with the switchover between states being similar to ... (Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.
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Different sleep onset criteria at the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT): an additional marker to differentiate central nervous system (CNS) hypersomnias
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) has different correlates in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) [idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) without long sleep time] and REM sleep [narcolepsy without cataplexy (NwoC) and narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC)]-related hypersomnias of central origin. We analysed sleep onset characteristics at the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) applying simultaneously two sleep onset criteria in 44 NC, seven NwoC and 16 IH consecutive patients referred for subjective EDS complaint. Sleep latency (SL) at MSLT was assessed both as the time elapsed to the occurrence of a single epoch of sleep Stage 1 NREM (SL) and of unequivocal sleep [three sleep Stage 1 NREM epochs or any other sleep stage epoch, sustained SL (SusSL)]. Idiopathic hypersomnia patients showed significantly (P < 0.000...
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Too tired for sex? You are not alone
About one in every four Americans married or living with someone say they are so sleep-deprived that they are often too tired to have sex, according to a new study by the National Sleep Foundation. Lack of sleep also keeps many people from work and family... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
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Sleep may be fountain of youth
CORVALLIS, Ore., March 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest a good night's sleep may help fight deterioration due to aging. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
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Executive Dysfunction and Learning Effect after Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Eur Neurol 2010;63:215220 (DOI:10.1159/000278301) (Source: European Neurology)
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