BACKGROUND Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a common neurological movement disorder characterized by symptoms that follow a circadian pattern. Night and rotating shift work schedules exert adverse effects on functions of the human body by disturbing circadian rhythms, and they are known to cause sleep disturbances and insomnia. In this paper, we investigate the possible association between shift...

Introduction. Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is a common sleep disorder which is characterized by urge to move the legs accompanied by disturbing and uncomfortable leg sensation during night and rest. This common condition affects 7-10% of general population and is frequently unrecognized, misdiagnosed, and poorly managed. Several clinical conditions like diabetes have been associated with seconda...

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sensorimotor neurological disturbance causing physical and psychological distress. Here, we investigated the severity and effect of depressive symptoms in RLS among a Korean cohort population. Depressive symptoms were more prevalent in the RLS group than in the non-RLS group [≥mild depression: odds ratio (OR)=1.95, p<0.001; ≥ moderate depression: OR=6.15, p<0.0...

The recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithm is one of the most well-known algorithms used in adaptive filtering, system identification and adaptive control. Its popularity is mainly due to its fast convergence speed, which is considered to be optimal in practice. In this paper, RLS methods are used to solve reinforcement learning problems, where two new reinforcement learning algorithms using l...

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of idiopathic restless legs syndrome (RLS) and its correlations in a sample of Medical School faculty members. A transversal study was conducted at a Medical School in the south of Brazil included 78 faculty members. The subjects answered to a structured questionnaire specific to RLS diagnosis and the Epworth and the Stanford scales to measure ...

Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a common movement disorder characterized by a circadian variation in symptoms involving an urge to move the limbs, usually the legs. Pregnant women, patients with end-stage renal disease or iron-deficiency anemia, and children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) have a significantly higher prevalence of RLS. The classic presentation includes the...

Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a common condition associated with many medical illnesses and medications. Psychotropic medications (both antidepressants and antipsychotics) may be causal. There have been over twenty cases of RLS due to Quetiapine but no published case reports linking RLS to Quetiapine XR. We present the case of a woman with previously established Bipolar Disorder who presented...

OBJECTIVES To characterize and describe the prevalence of restless leg syndrome (RLS) in hospitalized psychiatric patients and to investigate the correlations between patient profile and RLS. METHODS Demographic information, psychiatric diagnoses, psychotropic medication use, and history of substance use were collected from hospitalized psychiatric patients at the American University of Beiru...

This paper designs the recursive least-squares (RLS) Wiener finite impulse response (FIR) predictor and filter, based on the innovation approach, in linear discrete-time stochastic systems. It is assumed that the signal is observed with additive white noise and the signal process is uncorrelated with the observation noise process. This paper also presents the recursive algorithms for the estima...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A high prevalence of right-to-left shunt (RLS) was described in a family of patients with CADASIL, a rare cerebral arteriopathy attributable to Notch3 gene mutations. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of RLS in patients with CADASIL and possible relation to clinical phenotype and cerebral MRI lesion load. METHODS Twenty-three CADASIL patients underwe...