Vincent F. Capaldi

TL;DR: Clinical sleep disturbances and problems with sleep-disordered breathing are common but nonspecific findings across primary diagnoses of PTSD, TBI, major depression, and anxiety disorder, whereas more subtle differences in sleep architecture and arousals as measured by overnight PSG recordings were modestly, but significantly, effective at distinguishing among the diagnostic groups.

TL;DR: Key findings from a national working group on sleep and TBI are presented, with a specific focus on the testing and development of sleep-related therapeutic interventions for mild TBI (mTBI).

TL;DR: Although preliminary, results suggest there may be important influences of sleep quality but not quantity on HPA regulation and responses to daytime stressors in children and adolescents, and further study is warranted.

TL;DR: It is suggested that sleep deprivation adversely affects the recognition of subtle facial cues of happiness and sadness, the two emotions that are most relevant to highly evolved prosocial interpersonal interactions involving affiliation and empathy, while the Recognition of other more primitive survival-oriented emotional face cues may be relatively robust against sleep loss.

TL;DR: This work focuses on mission requirements of night shift work, sustained operations, and rapid re-entrainment to time zones, and proposes targeted pharmacological and non-pharmacological countermeasures to optimize performance that are mission- and symptom-specific.