sleep

This is far from an ME study, but it introduces some interesting thoughts about sleep and where the need for sleep originates. It suggests that our focus on the brain is wrong. What that may suggest for our sleep patterns – who knows...

Abstract (1) Background—Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a multifaceted illness characterized by profound and persistent fatigue unrelieved by rest along with a range of other debilitating symptoms. Experiences of unrefreshing and disturbed sleep are frequently...

Nina E. Fultz, Giorgio Bonmassar, Kawin Setsompop, Robert A. Stickgold, Bruce R. Rosen, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Laura D. Lewis. Abstract Sleep is essential for both cognition and maintenance of healthy brain function. Slow waves in neural activity contribute to memory consolidation, whereas...

Per Kristian Eide, Vegard Vinje, Are Hugo Pripp, Kent-Andre Mardal, Geir Ringstad Brain, Volume 144, Issue 3, March 2021, Pages 863–874, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa443 Published: 23 March 2021 It remains an enigma why human beings spend one-third of their life asleep. Experimental...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00620/full Effects of Trazodone on Sleep Quality and Cognitive Function in Arteriosclerotic Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Comorbid With Chronic Insomnia

You may be interested in this article from The Conversation about the unreliability of sleep trackers. with a variety of related sleep articles underneath...

As the title says. How??? I've been getting through so far because I'm prescribed zopiclone which I'm allowed to use a maximum of twice a week. The *very hot* weather this summer has so far happened in short clusters of days, so I've been able to use zopiclone for all the really hot ones...

Research on rodents. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/variants-in-water-channel-gene-tied-to-more-restful-sleep-67529 Paper here

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359104520918364 ETA on sci-hub https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104520918364

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00222/full

full article: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/03/03/better-sleep-prebiotics-could-help

Free fulltext: https://ecronicon.com/ecne/a-critical-review-to-investigate-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-as-sleep-disorder.php

Two threads on this topic have been merged. The thread title has been changed to cover both threads. Sigh. I rely quite a lot on the weight of my duvet to make me sleepy, so when it's too hot for my usual duvet, I'm rather at a loss for getting to sleep. Last summer, I was able to sleep...

This is an article of a paper that is yet to be published. View here. There is much more to the article, discusses a trial with growth hormone. BIAFAC stands for brain injury associated fatigue and altered cognition. It makes me wonder, how many of us had a genuine concussion prior to...

full blog here https://cfs-survivors.org/blog/2019/12/22/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-good-nights-sleep/

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Volume 83, January 2020, Pages 309-314 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159119304507?dgcid=author

PubMed abstract only at the moment, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771749 ETA: Paper now published. Paywall, https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/full/10.5664/jcsm.8114 Not available via Sci hub at time of editing.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sleep-may-trigger-rhythmic-power-washing-brain?fbclid=IwAR04YDRSjisQU_s9kY3aJLeB2KxdExrcE2mULFoE_kbR1fR3CfvZfxBjeVE Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first time...

From Twitter this morning Perhaps part of the ME big picture ? https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30652-X?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S089662731930652X?showall=true Apologies, phone being glitchy this morning so couldn't t copy and paste heading

Not from the same study unfortunately but these recent findings of visual deficits due to sleep deprivation : https://www.physoc.org/news_article/biomarker-to-avoid-safety-risk-for-the-sleep-deprived-eye-movement-test-indicates-sleep-loss/ strike me as similar, on first reading, to those...