Publications by authors named "F X Pizza"
Background: Chewing is a fundamental motor activity, but there is no specific assessment tool in Italian for paediatric rehabilitation. The Karaduman Chewing Performance Scale (KCPS) is a performance-based assessment tool that allow to classify chewing performance in childhood.
Objective: To translate, culturally adapt and assess reliability, criterion validity and cross-cultural validity of the KCPS into Italian in a paediatric population.
Narcolepsy is a rare lifelong sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness with variable expression of cataplexy, sleep paralysis, sleep-related hallucinations and disrupted nocturnal sleep. Affected individuals also experience additional impairing symptoms, including (but not limited to) difficulties with attention, memory and concentration, brain fog, mood instability and fatigue, with a substantial impact on everyday life. Diagnostic delays of up to 10 years are common, primarily due to the substantial heterogeneity in clinical presentation of narcolepsy symptoms and presence of significant comorbidities.
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- * Researchers analyzed data from over 1500 patients and found that women reported higher sleepiness on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale compared to men, with specific age-related trends observed in different patient groups.
- * Notably, in women with narcoleptic conditions, an increase in daytime sleepiness was linked to age, while weight gain appeared later, suggesting a complex relationship that warrants further research for targeted treatment approaches.
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- The study aimed to identify new markers for narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) by analyzing different phases of the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), focusing on sleep-wake instability and patterns during wakefulness.
- Researchers extracted 163 features related to sleepiness and microsleep from 177 patients with NT1, NT2, and other hypersomnia types, using automated analysis methods.
- Results showed that NT1 could be effectively distinguished from NT2, Idiopathic Hypersomnia, and Subjective Hypersomnia primarily using 'Lights On' features, indicating potential new markers for diagnosing and understanding NT1.