Stressful Sleeping

Stressful sleeping.

Exploring nursing staffs communication in stressful and non-stressful situations.

AIM To explore the factors that characterise the work environment, focusing on communication among nurses in stressful and non-stressful situations. BACKGROUND Nursing is often described as a stressful occupation. Implementation of change may be an additional stress factor. METHODS Nurses and assistant nurses completed a questionnaire from two different perspectives, 'communication in non-s...

Tanacetum parthenium enhances pentobarbital-induced sleeping behaviors

Objective: Sleep disorders are among the most common psychiatric and medical conditions. In the present study, the hypnotic effect of Tanacetum parthenium was studied in mice.  Material and Methods: The hydro-alcoholic extract (HAE) of T. parthenium and three fractions of it, namely water fraction (WF), ethyl acetate fra...

Stressful sleep.

Few would challenge the assertion that the inability to breathe is stressful. In fact, inhaling carbon dioxide to simulate asphyxia is a time-honoured research protocol to unmask panic disorder [1]. Sleep loss is also stressful, as evidenced by increased cortisol and sympathetic tone in insomnia [2] or sleep deprivation [3, 4]. In the case of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), impaired breathing e...

Learning during stressful times.

Stressful life events can have profound effects on our cognitive and motor abilities, from those that could be construed as adaptive to those not so. In this review, I discuss the general notion that acute stressful experience necessarily impairs our abilities to learn and remember. The effects of stress on operant conditioning, that is, learned helplessness, as well as those on classical condi...