Nightmare frequency is a risk factor for suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study aimed to investigate changes in NMF, SI, and their association during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected in 16 countries using a harmonised questionnaire. The sample included 9328 individuals (4848 women; age M[SD] = 46.85 [17.75] years), and 17.60% reported previous COVID-19. Overall, SI was significantly 2% lower during the pandemic vs. before, and this was consistent across genders and ages. Most countries/regions demonstrated decreases in SI during this pandemic, with Austria (-9.57%), Sweden (-6.18%), and Bulgaria (-5.14%) exhibiting significant declines in SI, but Italy (1.45%) and Portugal (2.45%)...
Source: Journal of Sleep Research - February 17, 2024 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Courtney J Bolstad Brigitte Holzinger Serena Scarpelli Luigi De Gennaro Juliana Yordanova Silvia Koumanova S érgio Mota-Rolim Christian Benedict Bj ørn Bjorvatn Ngan Yin Chan Frances Chung Yves Dauvilliers Colin A Espie Yuichi Inoue Maria Korman Adrijan Source Type: research
When Night Falls Fast
Sleep disturbances have been linked to suicidal ideation and behaviors in adolescents. Specifically, insomnia and nightmares are associated with current suicide risk and predict future ideation. Associations between hypersomnia, sleep apnea, and suicide remain inconclusive. Potential biological mechanisms underlying these relationships include executive functioning deficits and hyperarousal. Related psychological factors may include thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and negative appraisals. Assessing suicide risk in patients with sleep disturbances, and vice versa, is needed. Therapeutic interventions such ...
Source: The Psychiatric Clinics of North America - January 31, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sara N. Fernandes, Emily Zuckerman, Regina Miranda, Argelinda Baroni Source Type: research
Examining the sleeping habits of preschool and elementary school children in Southern Slovakia
CONCLUSION: Although the children get enough sleep, significantly more upper-grade school children feel tired in the morning. It is essential to help sleep and eliminate factors that prevent falling asleep to create a healthy circadian rhythm in the life of children.PMID:38272478 | DOI:10.21101/cejph.a7896 (Source: Central European Journal of Public Health)
Source: Central European Journal of Public Health - January 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Eva T óthová Tarová Sarolta Darvay Zolt án Fehér Melinda Nagy Iveta Szencziov á D ániel Dancsa Veronika Himp án Éva Winkler Pavol Bal ázs M ária Konečná Vincent Sedl ák M ária Zahatňanská Ren áta Bernátová Janka Por áčová Source Type: research
Sleep Health among Children Adopted from Foster Care: The Moderating Effect of Parent-Child Sleep Interactions
CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that while specific sleep problems might remit after children in foster care achieve permanence, nighttime sleep fragmentation often persists. Parent-child interactions surrounding sleep may be pivotal in improving sleep health in this population.PMID:38263632 | DOI:10.1080/15402002.2024.2303467 (Source: Behavioral Sleep Medicine)
Source: Behavioral Sleep Medicine - January 24, 2024 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Anthony B Cifre Christopher J Budnick Johanna Bick Eleanor L McGlinchey Carol H Ripple Amy R Wolfson Candice A Alfano Source Type: research
Nightmare experiences and perceived ethnic discrimination amongst female university students in the United Arab Emirates: a cross-sectional study
In this study, 179 female university students from the United Arab Emirates were assessed to answer that question. Results showed that while anxiety and depression were related to nightmare experiences, perceived ethnic discrimination was a stronger predictor of nightmare experiences. We posit two explanations for this finding: one based on psychoanalytical insights, and the other based on the Disposition-Stress model with neurobiological correlates. No significant differences were found across ethnicity when it comes to nightmare experiences or perceived ethnic discrimination. This is an encouraging sign of optimal societ...
Source: Journal of Sleep Research - January 17, 2024 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Maria Campo Redondo Gabriel Andrade Source Type: research
Educational Resources to Support Patients with Parasomnias
This article serves to help reduce patient burden in searching for credible information about parasomnias —abnormal behaviors during sleep—including sleepwalking, night terrors, and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. It exhibits a compiled list of accessible online resources about parasomnias as well as detailed descriptions about each resource. By increasing patient accessibility to clinic ally validated resources, patients are more empowered to take an active role in managing their conditions, collaborating with their health-care practitioners in clinical management, enrolling in registries, and joining news...
Source: Sleep Medicine Clinics - January 16, 2024 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Courtney D. Molina, Adreanne Rivera, Alon Y. Avidan Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 38: Differences in Anxiety, Insomnia, and Trauma Symptoms in Wildfire Survivors from Australia, Canada, and the United States of America
This study examined differences in anxiety, depression, insomnia, sleep quality, nightmares, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following wildfires in Australia, Canada, and the United States of America (USA). One hundred and twenty-six participants from Australia, Canada, and the USA completed an online survey. The sample included 102 (81%) women, 23 (18.3%) men, and one non-binary (0.8%) individual. Participants were aged between 20 and 92 years (M age = 52 years, SD = 14.4). They completed a demographic questionnaire, the Disturbing Dream and Nightmare Severity Index (DDNSI), Generalized Anxiety Disorder...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - December 27, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fadia Isaac Samia R. Toukhsati Britt Klein Mirella Di Benedetto Gerard A. Kennedy Tags: Article Source Type: research
5-MeO-DMT for post-traumatic stress disorder: a real-world longitudinal case study
Psychedelic therapy is, arguably, the next frontier in psychiatry. It offers a radical alternative to longstanding, mainstays of treatment, while exciting a paradigm shift in translational science and drug discovery. There is particular interest in 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT)—a serotonergic psychedelic—as a novel, fast-acting therapeutic. Yet, few studies have directly examined 5-MeO-DMT for trauma- or stress-related psychopathology, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Herein, we present the first longitudinal case study on 5-MeO-DMT for chronic refractory PTSD, in a 23-year-old female. A ...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - November 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Trauma-Associated Sleep Disorder
Trauma-associated sleep disorder (TASD) is a recently described parasomnia that develops following a traumatic event. It consists of trauma-related nightmares, disruptive nocturnal behaviors, and autonomic disturbances, and shares similarities with post-traumatic stress disorder and rapid eye movement behavior disorder. The underlying pathophysiology of TASD and how it relates to other parasomnias are still not entirely understood; proposed treatment is similarly nebulous, with prazosin at the forefront along with management of comorbid sleep disorders. The purpose of this article is to characterize and highlight the clini...
Source: Sleep Medicine Clinics - November 23, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Daniel A. Barone Source Type: research
Nightmare Disorder
This article presents a comprehensive review of nightmare disorder, covering diagnosis, treatment approaches, guidelines, and considerations. It begins with an introduction, defining the disorder and addressing its prevalence and psychosocial implications. The article explores assessment tools for diagnosis and then delves into psychological and pharmacologic treatment modalities, examining their efficacy and side effects. Considerations for optimizing therapeutic outcomes are highlighted, including medication versus psychotherapy, co-morbidities, cultural implications, and the use of technology and service animals. The re...
Source: Sleep Medicine Clinics - November 15, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Victoria R. Garriques, Deepali M. Dhruve, Michael R. Nadorff Source Type: research
Veteran treatment completers’ and facilitators’ perceptions of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and imagery rehearsal therapy for posttraumatic sleep disturbances.
This study was conducted after a pilot randomized controlled trial that compared CBT-I with CBT-I combined with imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) in a sample of Australian veterans with diagnosed posttraumatic stress disorder and sleep disturbances. Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with veterans who completed group CBT-I or group CBT-I + IRT (n = 11), and a focus group was conducted with the facilitators who delivered the treatments (n = 3). The study examined participants’ experiences and perspectives of the treatments, and their acceptability for veterans. Inductive thematic analysis led to the identif...
Source: Dreaming - November 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Somnambulism
, also called sleepwalking, classified as a non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnia, encompasses a range of abnormal paroxysmal behaviors, leading to sleepwalking in dissociated sleep in an altered state of consciousness with impaired judgment and configuring a kind of hierarchical continuum with confusional arousal and night terror. Despite being generally regarded as a benign condition, its potential severity entails social, personal, and even forensic consequences. This comprehensive review provides an overview on the current state of knowledge, elucidating the phenomenon of somnambulism and encompassing its clinical ma...
Source: Sleep Medicine Clinics - November 2, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Ramona Cordani, Regis Lopez, Lucie Barateau, Sofiene Chenini, Lino Nobili, Yves Dauvilliers Source Type: research
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia treatment attrition in patients with weekly nightmares
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine,Volume 19, Issue 11, Page 1913-1921, November 2023. (Source: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM)
Source: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM - November 1, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Nancy A. Hamilton
Julia A. Russell
Westley A. Youngren
Autumn M. Gallegos
Hugh F. Crean
Catherine Cerulli
Todd M. Bishop
Kareem Hamadah
Megan Schulte
Wilfred R. Pigeon
Kathi L. Heffner
1The University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas
2U.S. Department of Veteran Source Type: research
When Medicine Seems Surreal
The Surrealism movement, which celebrated automatic, unconscious artistic creation, arose in the period after World War I as a response to the failures of rationalism, which held that advances in science and technology would finally remedy the human condition (which the war showed to be an obscene lie). Thus modern medicine, with its insistence on facts and data, seems an underused inspiration for surreal poetry. “Elegy With the Source of My Insomnia” depicts what soon becomes an otherworldly patient-physician interaction: a pathologist poet conducting an autopsy on a young boy she has cared for. What seems the surreal...
Source: JAMA - October 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
The nightmare severity index (NSI): A short new multidimensional tool for assessing nightmares
J Sleep Res. 2023 Oct 17:e14065. doi: 10.1111/jsr.14065. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis psychometric pilot study aims to evaluate a new multidimensional simple scale, named the nightmare severity index (NSI) - close to the existing insomnia (ISI) and hypersomnia (HSI) severity indexes. The NSI encompasses all main dimensions of nightmare disorder, evaluating four subdimensions: frequency, emotional impact, diurnal impact, and nocturnal impact of nightmares. The NSI was completed by a total of 102 patients. The majority of the population consisted of women (64%) and outpatient individuals (76%) diagnosed with mood disor...
Source: Journal of Sleep Research - October 17, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Pierre A Geoffroy Emilie Stern Julia Maruani Renaud Cornic Balthazar Bazin Emmanuelle Clerici Marine Ambar Akkaoui R égis Lopez Justine Frija Masson Marie-Pia d'Ortho Michel Lejoyeux Jean-Arthur Micoulaud Franchi Camille Couffignal Source Type: research
