Publications by authors named "Olivier Pallanca"
Article Synopsis
- Inappropriate routines can negatively affect sleep, causing sleep disorders or worsening existing issues.
- An observational study was conducted with 176 patients aged 60 and older who suffer from chronic insomnia to explore their sleep habits and lifestyles.
- The aim of the study was to identify habits that can be modified to help improve insomnia in this older population.
Background: Poor sleep is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, where environmental factors contribute to reduce and fragment sleep. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of earplugs and eye mask on sleep architecture in ICU patients.
Methods: A single-center randomized controlled trial of 64 ICU patients was conducted from July 2012 to December 2013.
Objectives: To examine the frequency and determinants of underperception of naps in older adults referred for a sleep assessment.
Design: Prospective study.
Setting: Outpatient geriatric sleep clinic.
In order to evaluate verbal memory consolidation during sleep in subjects experiencing sleepwalking or sleep terror, 19 patients experiencing sleepwalking/sleep terror and 19 controls performed two verbal memory tasks (16-word list from the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test, and a 220- and 263-word modified story recall test) in the evening, followed by nocturnal video polysomnography (n = 29) and morning recall (night-time consolidation after 14 h, n = 38). The following morning, they were given a daytime learning task using the modified story recall test in reverse order, followed by an evening recall test after 9 h of wakefulness (daytime consolidation, n = 38). The patients experiencing sleepwalking/sleep terror exhibited more frequent awakenings during slow-wave sleep and longer wakefulness after sleep onset than the controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine if sleep talkers with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) would utter during REM sleep sentences learned before sleep, and to evaluate their verbal memory consolidation during sleep.
Methods: Eighteen patients with RBD and 10 controls performed two verbal memory tasks (16 words from the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test and a 220-263 word long modified Story Recall Test) in the evening, followed by nocturnal video-polysomnography and morning recall (night-time consolidation). In 9 patients with RBD, daytime consolidation (morning learning/recall, evening recall) was also evaluated with the modified Story Recall Test in a cross-over order.