Medical News | Medical Articles - Sleep Disorder - Nov 5, 2018 Edition

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November 5, 2018     Sleep Disorder     The latest sleep disorder news from News Medical

Duration of respiratory disturbances may better predict mortality risk from OSA   How long a person with obstructive sleep apnea stops breathing may be a better predictor of mortality risk from OSA than the number of times they stop breathing, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Antidepressant treatment may lead to improvements in sleep quality of patients with depression   In a study of 15 patients affected by major depressive disorder and complaining of insomnia, initiating treatment with vortioxetine for their depressive symptoms led to significant improvements in subjective sleep quality and daytime sleepiness.         Smoke alarms using mother's voice more effective for waking children   When residential fires happen at night while people are sleeping, deaths are more likely to occur. Smoke alarms are important for preventing these deaths, yet many young children don't wake up to traditional high-pitch tone alarms.

Alzheimer's Disease and Sleep Disruption   Sleep requirements change throughout life. As part of normal aging, sleep generally becomes briefer and fragmented, with older people often having multiple naps throughout the day. This may not be the pattern of sleep seen in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, however.       CBT for insomnia may slow or reverse cortical atrophy in patients with co-morbid fibromyalgia   Preliminary findings from a pilot study suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia may slow or even reverse the atrophy of cortical gray matter in patients who have co-morbid fibromyalgia.       New smart watch algorithms can accurately monitor wearers' sleep patterns   New algorithms take advantage of multiple smart watch sensors to accurately monitor wearers' sleep patterns.       Impact of sleep on women’s cardiovascular health   Jason Carter, associate vice president for research development and professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, is speaking at the 2018 National Institute of Health Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Research Conference on Sleep and the Health of Women in Bethesda, Maryland.       Researchers identify neurons essential for normal sleep   Two decades ago, Clifford B. Saper, MD/PhD, Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and colleagues discovered a set of nerve cells they thought might be the switch that turns the brain off, allowing it to sleep.

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