Publications by authors named "R Halonen"
Article Synopsis
- Sleep plays a significant role in regulating emotions, but its specific contributions, particularly concerning physiological responses to stress, are not well understood.
- A study involving Finnish participants explored the effects of suppressing specific sleep stages (REM and slow-wave sleep) on stress responses and memory, finding that suppressing slow-wave sleep resulted in a greater physiological stress response.
- The research suggests that REM sleep, specifically its theta brain activity, helps consolidate emotional responses, while the dependence of declarative memory consolidation on sleep stages is less clear.
Precise thermodynamic calculations are essential for understanding the dynamics of cluster systems and new particle formation. However, the widely employed harmonic statistical mechanical approach often falls short in terms of accuracy. In this study, we present an improved statistical model that incorporates vibrational anharmonicity via a novel partition function that requires only one additional system-specific input parameter.
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- Evidence suggests that rapid-eye-movement sleep (REMS) plays a critical role in processing emotions, with systematic reviews focusing on the effects of REMS deprivation (REMSD).
- Animal studies show that longer REMSD leads to negative outcomes such as aggression, increased pain sensitivity, diminished sexual behavior, and impaired fear memory consolidation, while human studies mostly report effects after just one night of deprivation.
- There is a significant lack of research on the effects of chronic REMS suppression, especially considering the potential impact of medications like SSRIs, highlighting a gap in understanding its long-term consequences on emotional health.
Objectives: Evidence of the impact of chronic stress on sleep is abundant, yet experimental sleep studies with a focus on acute stress are scarce and the results are mixed. Our study aimed to fill this gap by experimentally investigating the effects of pre-sleep social stress on sleep dynamics during the subsequent night, as measured with polysomnography (PSG).
Methods: Thirty-four healthy individuals (65% females, M = 25.
Background: Cancer is a major global health problem. Patient-reported outcome (PRO) systems have been developed to support the treatment of patients with cancer. Although clear evidence of the benefits of the routine use of electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) exists, engaging physicians in using these systems has been challenging.
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