Katharine C Simon, Chelsea Cadle, Alessandra E Shuster, Paola Malerba
{"title":"Sleep Across the Lifespan: A Neurobehavioral Perspective.","authors":"Katharine C Simon, Chelsea Cadle, Alessandra E Shuster, Paola Malerba","doi":"10.1007/s40675-025-00322-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40675-025-00322-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Sleep is dynamic across the lifespan, influenced by brain maturation, neurophysiology, hormones, and cognitive processes. Sleep behaviors influenced by physiological and external factors can also impact sleep health. As sleep plays a mechanistic role in health across the lifespan, understanding when and how to intervene to benefit health is essential.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Recent research has advanced our understanding of sleep across three domains: patterns, neurophysiology, and behaviors. Highlights include (1) Early childhood nap cessation is thought to relate to medial temporal lobe network maturation and underlie long-term hippocampal-dependent memory development. (2) Chronotype misalignment is a key factor in sleep deficits and social jetlag. (3) Older adult daytime sleep has complex effects on health, at times beneficial while others, potentially maladaptive. (4) Longitudinal sleep oscillation trajectories are starting to be investigated and indicate neurophysiology could be interpreted as indicative of brain maturation in development. (5) In adults, sleep quality and macrostructure trajectories show high variability, emphasizing distinctive traits in shaping sleep and its lifespan trajectories. (6) Neighborhood and socioeconomic factors influence sleep health across all ages. (7) In older adults, associations between loneliness and poor sleep are being unpacked.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>This recent research, while comprehensively describing our current understanding of sleep trajectories across the lifespan, emphasizes the need to expand current approaches to longitudinal measurement studies that cross age-spans. Expanding will enhance our ability to mechanistically determine the temporal and causal relations between the multiple dimensions of sleep (i.e., patterns, behaviors, and physiology) and outcomes in sleep health.</p>","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"11 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12174261/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144334063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sanjana Agarwal, Paige Monsod, Yoon-Sik Cho, Sharon MacRae, Justyna S Swierz, William J Healy, Younghoon Kwon, Xiaoyue Liu, Yeilim Cho
{"title":"Racial Disparity in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Care and its Impact on Cardiovascular Health.","authors":"Sanjana Agarwal, Paige Monsod, Yoon-Sik Cho, Sharon MacRae, Justyna S Swierz, William J Healy, Younghoon Kwon, Xiaoyue Liu, Yeilim Cho","doi":"10.1007/s40675-024-00308-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40675-024-00308-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Racial disparities in sleep health as well as the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders have emerged as a key driver of cardiovascular outcomes. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), is characterized by repeated airway obstructions during sleep and is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. While racial and ethnic minorities have disproportionately high OSA prevalence rates, diagnosis rates remain low. One explanation behind this phenomenon are structural environmental and lifestyle barriers that prevent access to OSA care. Additionally, there remains significantly limited understanding of OSA and its causes and symptoms within communities.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>In general, minorities have poorer sleep health due to systemic and environmental racism, which also causes an increased in conditions such as obesity that increases OSA risk. Disparities also persist within various types of OSA treatment. The most common form of treatment, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) has lower adherence among African Americans, as well as those living in areas with low socioeconomic status (SES), primarily minorities. There have been a small number of studies that have shown some initial success of educational campaigns about OSA within minority communities in increasing screenings and diagnoses. Peer based education has been an effective technique, and there is a need for such programs to be expanded.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Disparities persist, with minority groups having worse sleep health and lower rates of adherence to OSA treatment. Some grassroots, peer-led educational campaigns show promise in increasing adherence. In light of these disparities, there remains a need for the field of sleep medicine to continue addressing the systemic barriers that hinder the timely evaluation and treatment in racial minorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"10 4","pages":"414-418"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11500798/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142509825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stuti J. Jaiswal, Jeff B. Pawelek, Shiri Warshawsky, Giorgio Quer, Megan Trieu, Jay A. Pandit, Robert L. Owens
{"title":"Using New Technologies and Wearables for Characterizing Sleep in Population-based Studies","authors":"Stuti J. Jaiswal, Jeff B. Pawelek, Shiri Warshawsky, Giorgio Quer, Megan Trieu, Jay A. Pandit, Robert L. Owens","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00272-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00272-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"10 3","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139124817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barriers in Access to and Delivery of Behavioral Sleep Treatments","authors":"Sydneyjane Roberts, C. Ulmer","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00270-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00270-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"11 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138944447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expanding Access to CBT-I for Older Adults: Review and Expansion of Recent Recommendations","authors":"Jaime M. Hughes","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00271-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00271-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"95 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138954170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Habibolah Khazaie, Saeid Komasi, Reena Mehra, Sepideh Khazaie, A. Alipourian, Vijay Nambi, Amir Sharafkhaneh
{"title":"Insomnia and Incidence of Heart Failure in a Sample of Half a Million People: a Meta-analytic Review and Meta-regression of Prospective Studies","authors":"Habibolah Khazaie, Saeid Komasi, Reena Mehra, Sepideh Khazaie, A. Alipourian, Vijay Nambi, Amir Sharafkhaneh","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00269-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00269-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"25 1","pages":"281-295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139238683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christina S. McCrae, Ashley F. Curtis, Melanie A. Stearns, Jason G. Craggs
{"title":"Fibromyalgia and the Brain: What’s Sleep got to do with it?","authors":"Christina S. McCrae, Ashley F. Curtis, Melanie A. Stearns, Jason G. Craggs","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00268-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00268-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":" 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135241719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chenlu Gao, Shahab Haghayegh, Max Wagner, Ruixue Cai, Kun Hu, Lei Gao, Peng Li
{"title":"Approaches for Assessing Circadian Rest-Activity Patterns Using Actigraphy in Cohort and Population-Based Studies","authors":"Chenlu Gao, Shahab Haghayegh, Max Wagner, Ruixue Cai, Kun Hu, Lei Gao, Peng Li","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00267-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00267-4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Purpose of Review To review methods for analyzing circadian rest-activity patterns using actigraphy and to discuss their applications in large cohort and population-based studies. Recent Findings We reviewed several widely used approaches, including parametric analysis (i.e., cosinor model and wavelet analysis), nonparametric analysis, data adaptive approach (i.e., empirical mode decomposition), and nonlinear dynamical approach (i.e., fractal analysis). We delved into the specifics of each approach and highlighted their advantages and disadvantages. Summary Various approaches have been developed to study circadian rest-activity rhythms using actigraphy. Features extracted from these approaches have been associated with population health outcomes. Limitations exist in prior research, including inconsistencies due to various available analytical approaches and lack of studies translating findings to the context of the circadian system. Potential future steps are proposed. The review ends with an introduction to an open-source software application— ezActi2 —developed to facilitate scalable applications in analyzing circadian rest-activity rhythms.","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135871395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luke J. Klugherz, Bhanu Prakash Kolla, Meghna P. Mansukhani
{"title":"Pharmacological Treatments for Insomnia","authors":"Luke J. Klugherz, Bhanu Prakash Kolla, Meghna P. Mansukhani","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00265-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00265-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationships Between Sleep Disorders, Burnout, Stress and Coping Strategies of Health Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Literature Review","authors":"C. Kwee, L. M. Dos Santos","doi":"10.1007/s40675-023-00266-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-023-00266-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37449,"journal":{"name":"Current Sleep Medicine Reports","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49432087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}