• A clinical trial of 49 adults with moderate levels of
sleep disturbance found mindfulness practices — including meditation and movement exercises — led to significant improvements to sleep.
Not exact matches
Problems often
found in this age group include bedwetting and
sleep disturbances, such as nightmares.
This was supported by Elek et al. (Elek et al., 2002) in a longitudinal study with 44 couples, who
found that both mothers and fathers suffered with fatigue and
sleep disturbances in the first 4 weeks postpartum.
If you are not getting enough
sleep, you need to
find the ways that help to reduce the
disturbances and also help your baby to keep
disturbances away from the everyday noises.
The researchers were surprised to
find that there was not an association between
sleep disturbance or nasal obstruction symptoms — symptoms which are more commonly thought of in relation to CRS — with CRS patients missing days of work or school.
They also
found that veterans with both PTSD and
sleep disturbance had an 80 percent increased risk of dementia.
Last year, Sterniczuk and her colleagues presented preliminary
findings showing that
sleep disturbances accurately predict a subsequent diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Previous studies by the Regenstrief - IU research group have
found MBSR to have a positive impact on post-cancer fatigue, depression and
sleep disturbance.
«We
found that perimenopausal women experience more
sleep disturbances prior to menstruation during the luteal phase than they did during the phase after menstruation,» said one of the study's authors, Fiona C. Baker, PhD, of the Center for Health Sciences at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
A Kaiser Permanente study published last year
found almost half of adults with type 2 diabetes report acute and chronic pain, and close to one quarter report neuropathy, fatigue, depression,
sleep disturbance, and physical or emotional disability.
Lead author Dr Andrew Thompson, from Warwick Medical School, said: «The presence of anxiety and depressive symptoms as confounding factors in those with
sleep disturbance could potentially explain the
findings.
«We
found that the majority of those with TBI, no matter how severe, had long - term
sleep disturbances, yet didn't know.»
A study in military veterans
finds that explosive blast - related concussions frequently result in hormone changes leading to problems such as
sleep disturbances, fatigue, depression and poor quality of life.
«These
findings are important in part because
sleep disturbances can be treated in older people.
The
finding points to a strong connection between this common
sleep disturbance, which affects up to five percent of all children, and the loss of neurons or delayed neuronal growth in the developing brain.
Kessler researchers
found preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of ramelteon for the treatment of
sleep disturbances after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
The
findings suggest that inadequate
sleep in the elderly, who normally experience
sleep disturbances, could exacerbate an already - impaired protective response to protein misfolding that happens in aging cells.
Smokers are four times as likely to report feeling unrested after a night's
sleep, a Johns Hopkins study
found; it seems that going through nicotine withdrawal each night can contribute to
sleep disturbances.
The
findings revealed that individuals following a Mediterranean diet had reduced
sleep apnea symptoms such as a decreased amount of
disturbances, called apneas, while in the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of
sleep, which normally makes up about 25 % of total
sleep throughout the night.
Receptors for thyroid hormone are
found throughout the body, and
disturbance in thyroid functioning can cause problems in almost every system of the body from the heart and GI tract and blood pressure to
sleep, mood, even the growth of hair, skin and nails.
A similar study in the same journal last October involving 181 male prisoners
found a 47 percent reduction in total trauma symptoms, including anxiety, depression, dissociation, and
sleep disturbance, and a significant decrease in perceived stress, compared to a non-meditating control group.
Bone loss and
sleep disturbances are often
found when salivary cortisol is elevated, and presumably also with elevated hair cortisol.
«Inactivity,
sleep disturbance, psychiatric comorbidity, medication, and ongoing stress experienced by people with CFS will affect HPA axis function, and the
findings that HPA axis dysregulation is more prominent in patients with a longer duration of illness suggest that the endocrine changes may be secondary.»
• No differences were
found between the two recipient groups in three other categories: anger, companionship and
sleep disturbance.
Indeed, they
found the children experienced better
sleep, including less bedtime resistance, parasomnias and total
sleep disturbance.
In 1997, Craig Haney and Mona Lynch surveyed the historical and contemporary literature on the experiences and effects of prisoner isolation,
finding «strikingly similar negative psychological effects» in various confinement settings, including «anxiety, panic, rage, loss of control, appetite and
sleep disturbances, [and] self - mutilations».
[297] On the basis of the evidence before me, I
find that the plaintiff has established that the injuries she sustained to her neck, shoulders and upper back, right knee and right ankle, as well as her PTSD,
sleep disturbances and anxiety were caused by the Accident.
As a result of crash the court
found that the Plaintiff suffered from a fracture at T12 and a disc injury to T11 / T12 and perhaps T9 / T10 (basically fractures to the mid back) and that the Plaintiff «has gone on to develop a chronic pain syndrome with discomfort,
sleep disturbance and depression.
Research into depression treatment has
found that depressed individuals often suffer from poor
sleeping habits, crying spells, anxiety, worry, poor memory, inability to concentrate, body aches, stomach
disturbances and a lack of interest in activities previously enjoyed.
A higher level of diastolic but not systolic BP was reported in children with obstructive
sleep apnea compared with primary snorers.21 The Tucson's Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study found that elevations in systolic and diastolic BPs were independently associated with sleep efficiency, respiratory disturbance index (a measure of sleep apnea), and obesity in 230 children 6 to 11 years of age.22 To the best of our knowledge, no studies have examined the association between insufficient sleep and BP in adolescents free of sleep a
sleep apnea compared with primary snorers.21 The Tucson's Children's Assessment of
Sleep Apnea Study found that elevations in systolic and diastolic BPs were independently associated with sleep efficiency, respiratory disturbance index (a measure of sleep apnea), and obesity in 230 children 6 to 11 years of age.22 To the best of our knowledge, no studies have examined the association between insufficient sleep and BP in adolescents free of sleep a
Sleep Apnea Study
found that elevations in systolic and diastolic BPs were independently associated with
sleep efficiency, respiratory disturbance index (a measure of sleep apnea), and obesity in 230 children 6 to 11 years of age.22 To the best of our knowledge, no studies have examined the association between insufficient sleep and BP in adolescents free of sleep a
sleep efficiency, respiratory
disturbance index (a measure of
sleep apnea), and obesity in 230 children 6 to 11 years of age.22 To the best of our knowledge, no studies have examined the association between insufficient sleep and BP in adolescents free of sleep a
sleep apnea), and obesity in 230 children 6 to 11 years of age.22 To the best of our knowledge, no studies have examined the association between insufficient
sleep and BP in adolescents free of sleep a
sleep and BP in adolescents free of
sleep a
sleep apnea.
However, mood disorders typically include
disturbances of
sleep and appetite and pronounced affective symptoms, as well as significant alterations in energy and activity levels not
found among children with conduct disorder.
These
findings reflect those of a study conducted in Finland among schoolchildren, which
found that children with widespread pain reported more emotional and behavioural problems than those without pain, and showed that tiredness during the day was a risk factor for the persistence of pain.18 Furthermore, a recent study of children aged 3 — 17 years attending a medical practice in Australia
found that children experiencing frequent abdominal pain were more likely to be anxious and experience
sleep disturbances when compared to children with no abdominal pain.19
When studying our closest relative, the primate researchers
found that «Separation is so traumatic for the infant monkey that their whole system rebels: They experience loss of body temperature, release of stress hormones (cortisol), cardiac arrhythmias, increased heart rate, agitation,
sleep disturbances, and immunological compromises.
Consistent with other studies of estradiol and WM in other populations, higher levels of estradiol was associated with better WM, whereas higher levels of depressive symptoms predicted poorer WM. Somewhat surprising is the
finding that
sleep disturbance did not appear to correlate with variation in the WM scores.
A recent study
found that adolescents who had been victimized had significantly more
sleep disturbances in comparison to adolescents who had not been victimized (Kubiszewski et al. 2014).
In contrast, a reciprocal association was
found between generalized anxiety and
sleep problems: generalized anxiety predicted later
sleep problems and
sleep problems likewise predicted later generalized anxiety, leading the authors to conclude that «generalized anxiety appeared to be the «necessary ingredient» for longitudinal associations between internalizing distress disorders and
sleep disturbance» (Shanahan et al. 2014, p. 555).