Journal ArticleDOI
Markov processes for the prediction of aircraft noise effects on sleep.
Mathias Basner,Uwe Siebert +1 more
TLDR
It is unlikely that the proposed curfew at Frankfurt Airport substantially benefits sleep structure, and models indicate small improvements in sleep structure in nights with curfew, even if all traffic is rescheduled to periods before and after the curfew period.Abstract:
Background. Aircraft noise disturbs sleep and impairs recuperation. Authorities plan to expand Frankfurt airport. Objective. To quantitatively assess the effects of a traffic curfew (11 PM to 5 AM) at Frankfurt Airport on sleep structure. Design. Experimental sleep study; polysomnography for 13 consecutive nights. Setting. Sleep laboratory. Subjects. 128 healthy subjects, mean age (SD) 38 (13) years, range 19 to 65, 59% female. Intervention. Exposure to aircraft noise via loudspeakers. Measurements. A 6-state Markov state transition sleep model was used to simulate 3 noise scenarios with first-order Monte Carlo simulations: 1) 2005 traffic at Frankfurt Airport, 2) as simulation 1 but flights between 11 PM and 5 AM cancelled, and 3) as simulation 2, with flights between 11 PM and 5 AM from simulation 1 rescheduled to periods before 11 PM and after 5 AM. Probabilities for transitions between sleep stages were estimated with autoregressive multinomial logistic regression. Results. Compared to a night without...read more
Citations
More filters
Book
Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise: Quantification of Healthy Life Years Lost in Europe
TL;DR: Policy-makers and their advisers are provided with technical support in their quantitative risk assessment of environmental noise and can use the procedure for estimating burdens presented here to prioritize and plan environmental and public health policies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Effects of environmental noise on sleep
TL;DR: This research corroborated findings that noise events induce arousals at relatively low exposure levels, and independent of the noise source and the environment and suggested that nocturnal noise exposure may be more relevant for the genesis of cardiovascular disease than daytime noise exposure.
Journal ArticleDOI
Aircraft noise effects on sleep: Mechanisms, mitigation and research needs
TL;DR: Despite the existing gaps in knowledge on long-term health effects, sufficient data are available for defining limit values, guidelines and protection concepts, which should be updated with the availability of new data.
Journal ArticleDOI
Practical guidance for risk assessment of traffic noise effects on sleep
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide guidance on hazard identification, exposure assessment, exposure response relationships and risk estimation for assessing the effects of traffic noise on sleep, based on the current literature.
Journal ArticleDOI
Automated determination of wakefulness and sleep in rats based on non-invasively acquired measures of movement and respiratory activity.
TL;DR: The results indicate that automated scoring based on non-invasively acquired movement and respiratory activity will be useful for studies requiring discrimination of wakefulness and sleep, however, additional information or signals will be needed to improve discrimination of NREM and REM episodes within sleep.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness: Dose-Response Effects on Neurobehavioral Functions and Sleep Physiology From Chronic Sleep Restriction and Total Sleep Deprivation
TL;DR: It appears that even relatively moderate sleep restriction can seriously impair waking neurobehavioral functions in healthy adults, and sleep debt is perhaps best understood as resulting in additional wakefulness that has a neurobiological "cost" which accumulates over time.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sleep-dependent memory consolidation
TL;DR: Converging evidence, from the molecular to the phenomenological, leaves little doubt that offline memory reprocessing during sleep is an important component of how the authors' memories are formed and ultimately shaped.
Journal ArticleDOI
Behavioral and physiological consequences of sleep restriction
Siobhan Banks,David F. Dinges +1 more
TL;DR: Recent experiments reveal that following days of chronic restriction of sleep duration below 7 hours per night, significant daytime cognitive dysfunction accumulates to levels comparable to that found after severe acute total sleep deprivation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Effects of early and late nocturnal sleep on declarative and procedural memory
Werner Plihal,Jan Born +1 more
TL;DR: The experiments for the first time dissociate specific effects of early and late sleep on two principal types of memory, declarative and procedural, in humans, and the benefit from sleep on recall depended on the phase of sleep and on the type of memory.