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Allan I. Pack
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 459
Citations - 35782
Allan I. Pack is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Obstructive sleep apnea & Sleep apnea. The author has an hindex of 89, co-authored 430 publications receiving 31495 citations. Previous affiliations of Allan I. Pack include University of Iceland & Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Cumulative sleepiness, mood disturbance, and psychomotor vigilance performance decrements during a week of sleep restricted to 4-5 hours per night
David F. Dinges,Frances M. Pack,Katherine M Williams,Kelly A. Gillen,John W. Powell,Geoffrey E. Ott,Caitlin Aptowicz,Allan I. Pack +7 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that cumulative nocturnal sleep debt had a dynamic and escalating analog in cumulative daytime sleepiness and that asymptotic or steady-state sleepiness was not achieved in response to sleep restriction.
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Objective Measurement of Patterns of Nasal CPAP Use by Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
N. B. Kribbs,Allan I. Pack,Lewis R. Kline,Philip L. Smith,Alan R. Schwartz,Norman Schubert,Susan Redline,John N. Henry,Joanne E. Getsy,David F. Dinges +9 more
TL;DR: Although the majority (60%) of patients claimed to use CPAP nightly, only 16 of 35 patients met criteria for regular use, defined by at least 4 h of CPAP administered on 70% of the days monitored, and these 16 patients had more years of education, and were more likely to work in professional occupations.
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Rest in Drosophila Is a Sleep-like State
Joan C. Hendricks,Stefanie M Finn,Karen Panckeri,Jessica Chavkin,Julie A. Williams,Amita Sehgal,Allan I. Pack +6 more
TL;DR: To facilitate the genetic study of sleep, it is documented that rest behavior in Drosophila melanogaster is a sleep-like state, and normal homeostatic regulation depends on the timeless but not the period central clock gene.
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Relationship between hours of CPAP use and achieving normal levels of sleepiness and daily functioning.
Terri E. Weaver,Greg Maislin,David F. Dinges,Thomas J Bloxham,Charles F. P. George,Harly Greenberg,Gihan A Kader,Mark W. Mahowald,Joel Younger,Allan I. Pack +9 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that a greater percentage of patients will achieve normal functioning with longer nightly CPAP durations, but what constitutes adequate use varies between different outcomes.
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An Instrument to Measure Functional Status Outcomes for Disorders of Excessive Sleepiness
Terri E. Weaver,Andréa Maria Laizner,Lois K. Evans,Greg Maislin,Deepak K. Chugh,Kerry Lyon,Philip L. Smith,Alan R. Schwartz,Susan Redline,Allan I. Pack,David E Dinges +10 more
TL;DR: The FOSQ can be used to determine how disorders of excessive sleepiness affect patients' abilities to conduct normal activities and the extent to which these abilities are improved by effective treatment of DOES.