Publications by authors named "H Danker-Hopfe"
Background: The objective of this review is to evaluate the associations between short-term exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) and cognitive performance in human experimental studies.
Methods: Online databases (PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and EMF-Portal) were searched for studies that evaluated effects of exposure to RF-EMF on seven domains of cognitive performance in human experimental studies. The assessment of study quality was based on the Risk of Bias (RoB) tool developed by the Office of Health Assessment and Translation (OHAT).
Background: GHB (gammahydroxybutyrate) and its precursors are popular recreational drugs due to their sedative, anxiolytic and sexually stimulating effects. Their use has been steadily increasing in recent years. The detoxification process is complex and prone to high rates of complications while little is known about the pathophysiology.
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- The study investigates the prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) among psychiatric inpatients in Germany and Switzerland, finding that 16.4% of the 317 patients had RLS, with most cases being diagnosed for the first time.
- Key factors associated with RLS included higher prevalence in women and those with family history of RLS, as well as significant differences in sleep quality and daytime sleepiness scores compared to non-RLS patients.
- Logistic regression identified gender, family history, and daytime sleepiness as significant predictors of RLS occurrence, while there were no notable ties between RLS symptoms and psychotropic drug treatments, except for atypical antipsychotics.
Purpose: The quantitative sleep EEG has been considered as electroencephalographic "fingerprint", ie, it is stable within but differs between individuals. So far, however, almost all studies addressing this aspect have been conducted in young men. It was therefore of interest to know whether the sleep EEG fingerprint concept holds true in older samples of both sexes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Quantification of nocturnal EEG activity has emerged as a promising extension to the conventional sleep evaluation approach. To date, studies focusing on quantitative sleep EEG data in relation to age and sex have revealed considerable variation across lifespan and differences between men and women. However, sleep EEG power values from elderly individuals are still rare.
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