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Frontiers in Sleep is committed to advancing developments in the field of sleep research by communicating scientific knowledge to researchers and the public alike, to enable the scientific breakthroughs of the future. In particular, the journal welcomes submissions that support and advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably SDG 3: good health and well-being. A better understanding of the impact of deficient and poor-quality sleep and sleep disorders on physical and mental health and performance is highly relevant with as many as 45% of the world’s population currently affected. Here we are pleased to introduce this Theme book entitled ‘Research Highlights from the f...
This authoritative and updated Atlas provides a comprehensive span of topics across all of sleep medicine, including old to futuristic approaches. It captures the significant changes and advances in the field and a wealth of new visual information available since the last edition. Edited and contributed by leaders in the art and science of sleep medicine, the Atlas highlights how the field of sleep medicine is truly a mix of several medical specialties. The field continues to rapidly evolve with research leading to some future directions. This Atlas remains a standard reference for Sleep Physicians, including Sleep Fellows and other trainees in Sleep Medicine, Sleep Technologists, and Sleep researchers.
"The importance of sleep for well-being and general and mental health is increasingly being recognized. Sleep complaints are commonly associated with mental disorders and are even part of the diagnostic criteria for some of them, such as mood and anxiety disorders and PTSD. The relationship between sleep and psychiatric disorders is intertwined and, in some cases, bidirectional. Anxiety, psychosis, and depression often result in reduced sleep quality (sleep fragmentation, experience of unpleasant, unrefreshing sleep), quantity (increased or reduced), or pattern (changes in sleep schedule, loss of sleep consistency). Reciprocally, sleep disorders can contribute to the exacerbation of psychiat...
This book explores the intricate links between sleep and neuropsychiatric diseases. In clinical settings, understanding the development, treatment, and management of neuropsychiatric diseases poses a substantial challenge. Neuropsychiatric disorders place a significant cost on society, affecting the health of people affected, care providers, and the general community. Sleep and neuropsychiatric disease are inextricably linked. Sleep disorders are widespread in these populations and are frequently overlooked in neurology and psychiatry. The book offers readers up-to-date information on different facets of the bidirectional connections between sleep and neuropsychiatric diseases. Following the...
This book describes a sleep disorder belonging to the category of parasomnias (i.e. the sleep behavioral and experiential disorders) characterized by abnormal vocal and motor behaviors in the context of vivid dreams and loss of the customary muscle atonia during the stage of sleep called REM sleep. REM-atonia - one of the defining features of REM sleep, along with rapid-eye-movements and a highly activated brain state - serves a protective function, preventing the dreamer from acting-out dreams and becoming injured. REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) was first described in 1986 by Schenck and colleagues; since then the understanding of the condition has increased exponentially, also pointing ...
This issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics, edited by Dr. Susheel Patil in collaboration with Consulting Editor, Teogilo Lee-Chiong, is devoted to Precision Sleep Medicine. Topics covered in this issue include: The Promise of Precision Medicine in Sleep Medicine; Precision Medicine for Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Precision Medicine for Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Precision Medicine for Hypersomnia; Precision Medicine for Insomnia; iCBTi: Tailoring CBTi for Chronic Insomnia Patients; Sleep Loss; Precision Medicine for REM Behavior Disorder; NREM Parasomnia: The Promise of Precision Medicine; Sleep Pharmacogenetics: The Promise of Precision Medicine; and Sleep and Memory: The Promise of Precision Medicine.
Many autoimmune diseases are induced by pathogenic autoantibodies, that bind to self-antigen expressed in cells and tissues, and induce disease by the recruitment of immune cells, activation of the classical complement pathway or induction of antigen cross-linking and endocytosis. These pathogenic mechanisms are, however, not available to antibodies of the IgG4 subclass, as these differ structurally from the other IgG subclasses, leaving them “immunologically inert”. In general, it is thought that IgG4 is part of an anti-inflammatory immune response to an overreactive pro-inflammatory response, e.g. in the context of helminth infection and allergy.