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American Academy of Sleep Medicine — the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is the only professional society dedicated exclusively to the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine. As the leading voice in the sleep field, the AASM sets standards and promotes excellence in health care, education and research.
Associated Professional Sleep Societies 19th Annual Meeting 2005
CONSEQUENCES OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION 2010 — Sleeplessness accounts for impaired perception, difficulties in keeping concentration, vision disturbances, slower reactions, as well as the appearance of microepisodes of sleep during wakefulness which lead to lower capabilities and efficiency of task performance and to increased number of errors. Sleep deprivation results in poor memorizing, schematic thinking, which yields wrong decisions, and emotional disturbances such as deteriorated interpersonal responses and increased aggressiveness.
Epworth Sleepiness Scale — Sleep at night is essential for good health. Sleepiness during the day can be an antecedent to falls, declining quality of life, and less functional recovery in older adults. Sleepiness during the day may also be an indicator that hypertension and diabetes are not well controlled
Longitudinal Associations Between Marital Instability and Child Sleep Problems Across Infancy and Toddlerhood in Adoptive Families 2011 — Thus, even after controlling for stability in sleep problems and marital instability and eliminating shared genetic influences on associations using a longitudinal adoption design, marital instability prospectively predicts early childhood sleep patterns.
Medscape Insomnia and Sleep Health Expert Column — Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape from WebMD automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site that best fits your registration profile.
Neurocognitive Consequences of Sleep Deprivation 2005 — Deficits in daytime performance due to sleep loss are experienced universally and associated with a significant social, financial, and human cost. Microsleeps, sleep attacks, and lapses in cognition increase with sleep loss as a function of state instability. Sleep deprivation studies repeatedly show a variable (negative) impact on mood, cognitive performance, and motor function due to an increasing sleep propensity and destabilization of the wake state. Specific neurocognitive domains including executive attention, working memory, and divergent higher cognitive functions are particularly vulnerable to sleep loss.
SLEEP 2009: 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies
Sleep Hygiene, Insomnia and Mental Health — Insomnia may not only be a symptom of some psychiatric diseases, it may also contribute to these disorders
Traumatic Brain Injury and Sleep Disturbance: A Review of Current Research 2009 — : Sequelae of TBI include both medical and psychiatric symptoms and frequent complaints of sleep disturbance. Sleep disturbance likely result from and contribute to multiple factors associated with the injury, all of which complicate recovery and resolution of symptoms. Interestingly, research now seems to indicate that mild TBI may be more correlated with increased likelihood of sleep disturbance than are severe forms of TBI.