By: Tamara Sellman, RPSGT, CCSH on December 18th, 2020
Recent Sleep Disorder News, December 2020
Sleep Disorder Wire is an occasional supplemental news report
capturing sleep disorder news* of relevant interest to
sleep technologists and sleep health educators not featured in
our regular news series, This Week in Sleep Medicine.
*beyond insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, and sleep breathing disorders, which appear as separate curations in the Sleep Wire series
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
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- International Business Times : Three-Year-Old Russian Girl Freezes to Death After Sleepwalking into Hallway [DECEMBER 13, 2020]
- Journal of Sleep Research : Tibialis anterior electromyographic bursts during sleep in histamine‐deficient mice (RLS) [DECEMBER 13, 2020]
- Health.com : I Have Catathrenia, a Rare Sleep Disorder That Sounds Like the ‘World’s Worst Sex Noise’ [DECEMBER 9, 2020]
- Sleep Review : KemPharm Adds Potential Therapy for Idiopathic Hypersomnia to Its Product Pipeline [DECEMBER 9, 2020]
- Discover : What Explains Sleep Paralysis and Visions of a Demon on Your Chest? [DECEMBER 8, 2020]
- PLoS One: REM sleep behavior in Parkinson disease: Frequent, particularly with higher age [DECEMBER 7, 2020]
- Sleep Medicine : Bidirectional association between irritable bowel syndrome and restless legs syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis [DECEMBER 4, 2020]
- Sleep Medicine : Prevalence of and factors associated with nightmares in the elderly in a population based cohort study [DECEMBER 4, 2020]
- Women's Health : I Have REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Which Causes Me To Sleepwalk Myself Into Scary Situations [DECEMBER 3, 2020]
- Journal of Sleep Research : Sleep−wake cycle dysregulation in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder [DECEMBER 1, 2020]
- American Journal of Medical Care : Assessing Presentation of Narcolepsy Worldwide [NOVEMBER 29, 2020]
- Physician's Weekly : Exploding head syndrome: new observations [NOVEMBER 29, 2020]
- SLEEP : Cortical Arousal Frequency is Increased in Narcolepsy Type 1 [NOVEMBER 29, 2020]
- Sleep Medicine : A case series and systematic review of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder outcome after deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease [NOVEMBER 29, 2020]
- Sleep Medicine Reviews : Sleep disorders and cancer: State of the art and future perspectives [NOVEMBER 28, 2020]
- SLEEP : The Nightmare Disorder Index: Development and Initial Validation in a Sample of Nurses [NOVEMBER 27, 2020]
- Sleep Medicine : Depression as a mediator between frequent nightmares and non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: a 3-wave longitudinal model [NOVEMBER 25, 2020]
- Hypersomnia Foundation : Differences in Hypersomnia Disorder Symptoms Among African Americans [NOVEMBER 17, 2020]
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : The diagnostic challenge of dream-enactment behaviors [NOVEMBER 15, 2020]
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : Nightmare recurrence in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder is likely a primary feature of central sympathetic nervous activation [NOVEMBER 15, 2020]
- Project Sleep : Rising Voices of Narcolepsy Story Sharing Series: Meet Kristyn [NOVEMBER 13, 2020]
- Penn State News : Race and ethnicity may not play role in restless leg syndrome during pregnancy [NOVEMBER 12, 2020]
- SLEEP : A potential role for Zinc in Restless Legs Syndrome [NOVEMBER 11, 2020]
- Hep Magazine : Poor Sleep Quality Linked to Fatty Liver Disease [NOVEMBER 9, 2020]
- Minnesota Sleep Society : Parasomnias [NOVEMBER 9, 2020]