Effect of graduated drug therapy for moderate-to-severe chronic insomnia on the severity of disease: an observational study in Germany.

Study Objectives: Severe chronic insomnia is a common sleep disorder that is mostly persistent and needs to be treated. Pharmacologic treatment options and guidelines are sparse, particularly for long-term treatment. Our study aimed to investigate a graduated therapy scheme for moderate-to-severe chronic insomnia in practice, considering the effects on self-reported sleep quality and quality of life.

Nocturnal positive pressure ventilation improves relationship satisfaction of patients with OSA and their partners.

Objective: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ventilation is considered the therapeutic standard for obstructed sleep apnea (OSA). Therapy success may also be affected by the patient's bed partner. A questionnaire was developed and tested that measures the attitude of the bed partner towards CPAP therapy and relationship effects.

Comparative study of the SleepImage ring device and polysomnography for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea.

Unlabelled: We aim to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the SleepImage Ring device in identifying obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) across different severity in comparison to standard polysomnography (PSG). Thirty-nine patients (mean age, 56.8 ± 15.

Neural correlates of visual and tactile path integration and their task related modulation.

Self-motion induces sensory signals that allow to determine travel distance (path integration). For veridical path integration, one must distinguish self-generated from externally induced sensory signals. Predictive coding has been suggested to attenuate self-induced sensory responses, while task relevance can reverse the attenuating effect of prediction.

Impact of Gender on Insomnia.

There is a distinct preponderance of female insomniacs when compared to male insomniacs. The aim of this study was to examine possible gender differences in the causes for insomnia, and the phenotypes of insomnia, and to investigate whether gender-specific insomnia diagnosis and treatment could be relevant in clinical practice. Data were collected from 121 insomniac patients by a medical specialist in the framework of normal clinical practice in Germany.

Visuo-tactile heading perception.

Self-motion through an environment induces various sensory signals, i.e., visual, vestibular, auditory, or tactile.

The Interplay Between Poor Sleep and Work-Related Health.

Objectives: Sleep disorders can arise from work. Employees who experience work overload are more likely to develop sleep problems. Poor sleep leads to decreased performance, sick leave, and accidents.

Influence of Tactile Flow on Visual Heading Perception.

The integration of information from different sensory modalities is crucial for successful navigation through an environment. Among others, self-motion induces distinct optic flow patterns on the retina, vestibular signals and tactile flow, which contribute to determine traveled distance (path integration) or movement direction (heading). While the processing of combined visual-vestibular information is subject to a growing body of literature, the processing of visuo-tactile signals in the context of self-motion has received comparatively little attention.

Preserved Contextual Cueing in Realistic Scenes in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Foveal vision loss has been shown to reduce efficient visual search guidance due to contextual cueing by incidentally learned contexts. However, previous studies used artificial (T- among L-shape) search paradigms that prevent the memorization of a target in a semantically meaningful scene. Here, we investigated contextual cueing in real-life scenes that allow explicit memory of target locations in semantically rich scenes.

Perspectives on trauma-informed care from mothers with a history of childhood maltreatment: a qualitative study.

Women who experienced abuse or neglect as children are more likely to have health problems during pregnancy and postpartum, but can be reluctant to seek help due to a lack of trauma-informed services. As part of a larger mixed method study, this component aimed to obtain qualitative data from trauma-exposed new mothers about their health care preferences during the perinatal period with the ultimate goal to design personalized, supportive interventions. Fifty-two trauma-exposed mothers completed a semi-structured interview at seven months postpartum about health care preferences including ideas for programs that promote wellness, thoughts about the influences of being a new mother and possible names for a program serving trauma-exposed mothers.

Mindfulness yoga during pregnancy for psychiatrically at-risk women: preliminary results from a pilot feasibility study.

Prenatal psychopathology may have an adverse impact on mother and baby, but few women receive treatment. We offered a 10-week mindfulness yoga (M-Yoga) intervention to psychiatrically high-risk pregnant women as an alternative to pharmacological treatment. Participants (N = 18) were primiparous, 12-26 weeks pregnant, and had elevated scores (>9) on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Screen at baseline.

Tuberculosis transmission in nontraditional settings: a decision-tree approach.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) transmission in nontraditional settings and relationships (non-TSR) often eludes detection by conventional contact investigation and is increasingly common. The U.S.

Added epidemiologic value to tuberculosis prevention and control of the investigation of clustered genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the US National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network to study the utility of genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates for prevention and control. From 1998 to 2000, four sites performed conventional contact investigations and epidemiologic investigations of cases with genotypically matched M. tuberculosis isolates, called cluster investigations.