Showing papers on "Sleep disorder published in 1972"

Hypersomnia with "sleep drunkenness".

Abstract: Sleep drunkenness (SD) consists of difficulty in coming to complete wakefulness accompanied by confusion, disorientation, poor motor coordination, slowness, and repeated returns to sleep. Patients report that these symptoms occur at almost every awakening; nearly all report abnormally ``deep'' and prolonged sleep as well. Approximately one third of all hypersomniacs seen suffered from sleep drunkenness. Of 58 cases of hypersomnia with sleep drunkenness examined, 52 were apparently idiopathic; six cases were possibly symptomatic of organic brain disturbance. A familial history of the disorder was found in 36% of the idiopathic cases. Electroencephalographic abnormalities were not remarkably prevalent or distinctive. Except for relatively high heart and respiratory in nocturnal polygraphic records, and except for extended sleep, no anomalies of sleep patterns were observed.

Upper Airway Obstruction in Obese Patients with Sleep Disturbance and Somnolence

Abstract: In three obese patients with sleep disturbance and somnolence, upper airway obstruction appeared to play the primary pathophysiologic role. The somnolence in these patients was caused by s...

Aspects of the Relationship Between Sleep and Nutrition: A Study of 375 Psychiatric Out-Patients

Abstract: An hypothesis has been tested that sleep patterns, especially in the second half of the night, in patients presenting with a variety of psychiatric disorders and with disorders of weight such as anorexia nervosa or obesity are related to nutritional factors that transcend specific diagnostic and mood states. The present report concerns a population of 375 consecutive new patient referrals to a psychiatric out-patient clinic investigated by standardized measures of aspects of their sleep, weight, level of nutrition, and psychiatric and mood states. A general finding has emerged of a relationship between weight loss, reduced duration of sleep, more broken sleep and early waking on the one hand, and weight gain, longer duration of sleep, no broken sleep and later waking on the other hand. This finding holds for states of severe depression and sadness as well as other diagnostic categories. Weight changes bore no such direct relationship to the time of getting off to sleep, which is found to be more closely related to mood states. However, major change in body shape is also found to be related to time of getting off to sleep. The overall results lend further support to the hypothesis, and it is suggested that nutritional factors may sometimes contribute to sleep disturbance presenting in a variety of disorders seen in the clinic.

The sleep wakefulness cycle in mexican adults

Abstract: The sleep-wakefulness patterns of 257 Mexican males and females ranging in age from the 20s to 80s was studied using a questionnaire. The average duration of sleep exceeded that typically prescribed for other Western cultures (8 hours per 24), and significantly varied with age decreasing from the 20s to 50s, after which there was an increase. There was a significantly greater incidence of sleep disturbance in subjects over 50 Compared to the other Ss the post-awakening mood of those with sleep disturbance and those over 50 was described by a significantly greater frequency of negative affect. Significant age and sex differences were found for the frequency of dream recall. The duration and frequency of daytime naps in Ss of all age groups revealed the presence of a polycyclic sleep-wakefulness cycle which has not been reported with such generality in other Western cultures.

Sleep Deprivation, Drug Use, and Psychiatric Disorders

Abstract: Walter R. Gove's analysis of the relationship between sleep deprivation and mental illness in his article \"Sleep Deprivation: A Cause of Psychotic Disorganization\" (1970) represents a landmark for psychiatric sociology in several respects. First, the study constitutes a highly original contribution to the etiology of mental illness by integrating variables at the biological and social-psychological levels. Second, the analysis represents one of the few, if not the only, published effort on the part of a sociologist to draw relevance from the wealth of data from experimental research on sleep and dreams. Gove's model, however, can be fruitfully augmented by considering research data and hypotheses on the relation between drug use and patterns of sleep cycles. While Gove indicates that anxiety and sleep deprivation may operate in mutual reinforcement such that psychotic disorganization may ultimately emerge, he neglects the coping strategies employed by individuals attempting to alleviate distress associated with anxiety and/or sleep deprivation. By this omission, the author also overlooks the possible role of drug use in the further exacerbation of both dreaming (rapid eye movement [REM]) sleep deprivation and anxiety. The means by which drug use may become integrated into this system may take several forms: self-administration f drugs, prescriptive advice from nonprofessional others (cf. Kadushin 1969), and professional treatment which includes drug use. Personal attempts to manipulate nergy and anxiety levels have become legitimized in American society, and a range of drug use patterns have become integrated into everyday life (Farber 1970; Lennard et al. 1971). At first, such drug use appears to run contrary to the basic American \"moral orientation\" (Williams 1970, p. 461). Further consideration, however, indicates that drug use may be legitimized through indirect support of the value of efficiency and practicality (Williams 1970, pp. 46468). Roszak (1969, p. 177) argues that widespread rug use is an innovation consistent with the American obsession with \"gadgets\" as solutions to problems. Slater's (1970, p. 93) thesis is similar: people choose drugs instead of social relationships to solve personal problems. In any event, it

[Chronic neurasthenic sleep disturbance. Examinations of night sleep using polygraphic EEG-recordings and subjective assessment of sleep].

Abstract: Der Nachtschlaf von 14 Patienten (17–34 Jahre) mit neurasthenischer Schlafstorung wurde in jeweils 4 aufeinanderfolgenden Nachten polygraphisch untersucht. Um eine moglichst homogene und reprasentative Patientengruppe zu erhalten, wurden strenge Auswahlkriterien einschlieslich psychologischer Testverfahren angewendet. Die Schlafdaten dieser Patienten (7 Frauen und 7 Manner) wurden mit einer altersentsprechenden gesunden Kontrollgruppe von 10 Normalen verglichen. Obwohl die Gesamtschlafdauer der Neurastheniker etwas langer als hei gesunden Schlafern war, zeigten sich auser einer abnormen Verarbeitung des Schlaferlebens auch objektivierbare und zum Teil signifikante Unterschiede im Schlafverhalten.

Rem sleep, depression, and nocturnal migraine.

Abstract: REM sleep is characterized by rapid eye movements and hence the name. REM periods occur approximately every ninety minutes during sleep and in young adults occupy about twenty percent of a night's sleep. REM periods last typically twenty minutes but may become longer as dawn approaches. Considerably more REM sleep occurs in children and especially in newborns, and progressively less REM occurs in the aged.

Sleep disturbance in children with visual-motor deficits.

Abstract: The sleep patterns of 6 normals and 6 boys with visual-motor deficits were compared. While none of the usual symptoms of sleep pathology, e.g., insomnia, enuresis, night terrors, or somnambulism, were present in either group, the visual-motor boys showed a marked increase in Stage REM and correlated decrease in Stage 2 sleep. Results were interpreted as in accord with Berger's theory that the biological function of REM sleep is the innervation of anatomical pathways necessary for oculomotor control during waking.