The Grand Challenge for Sleep and Chronobiology in the Neurology/Neuroscience domains for the twenty-first century is to improve our understanding of the complex relationships between sleep, wake, and chronobiology in healthy subjects and in patients with neurological disorders. Sleep disorders are very common and often disabling conditions that can be isolated or associated with neurological d...

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in children is a common disorder, with prevalence estimates of approximately 1-2%. Furthermore, premature infants and children with other conditions including craniofacial disorders, obesity, neuromuscular disorders, Down syndrome, chronic lung disease, sickle cell anemia, central hypoventilation syndromes, and a number of other genetic and metabolic dise...

www.thoracic.org C LI P A N D C O P Y What is Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB)? SDB is a general term used to describe various different abnormalities in breathing pattern which occur during sleep, including obstructive and central sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common disorder which affects roughly 10% of the US population and approximately 1/3 of people with congestive heart ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of temperature-controlled radiofrequency tonsil reduction in the treatment of children with a sleep-related breathing disorder associated with tonsillar obstructive hypertrophy. DESIGN Prospective, nonrandomized, case series feasibility study of children meeting the criteria for tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy for the treatment of an obstructi...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a novel non-contact system for whole-night sleep evaluation using breathing sounds analysis (BSA). DESIGN Whole-night breathing sounds (using ambient microphone) and polysomnography (PSG) were simultaneously collected at a sleep laboratory (mean recording time 7.1 hours). A set of acoustic features quantifying breathing pattern were developed to distin...

Arousals are regarded as one of the most influential causes of daytime sleepiness and are frequent occurrences in patients with breathing disorders during sleep. These arousals can result from external stimuli or from an internal stimulus, interpreted as having a sleep protective role. This study will focus on automatic detection of arousals, especially those caused by sleep-related breathing d...

INTRODUCTION It has been shown that sleep-related breathing disorders, especially sleep apnea, are very common in patients who have had a stroke, and that they also reduce the potential for neurological recovery. Nevertheless, other sleep disorders caused by stroke (excessive daytime sleepiness, insomnia, sleep related movement disorders) can also cause or increase stroke-related disability, an...

BACKGROUND Sleep Apnea Syndrome (SAS) is a common sleep-related breathing disorder, which affects about 4-7% males and 2-4% females all around the world. Different approaches have been adopted to diagnose SAS and measure its severity, including the gold standard Polysomnography (PSG) in sleep study field as well as several alternative techniques such as single-channel ECG, pulse oximeter and so...

background: sleep disorders are common among patients with chronic heart failure (hf), and it can have a significant effect on patients’ daily activities as well as their health. the purpose of this study was to assess sleep quality and its predictors in iranian patients with chronic hf.   methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 200 patients with hf in two hospitals of...

results a statistically significant change was reported in the severity of depression in pregnant women with sleep disorders in the intervention group in comparison to the control group at weeks 29 (p < 0.000) and 33 (p < 0.00). conclusions sleep health behavioral education improves depression in pregnant women who are experiencing insomnia. findings from this study add support to the reported ...