Publications by authors named "Ting-Hui Yang"
Article Synopsis
- A study assessed sleep quality over three months in Taiwanese cardiac surgery patients, finding that poor sleep was common before and after surgery, with most patients reporting issues initially.
- Significant improvements in sleep quality were noted at one and three months post-surgery, along with a notable decrease in daytime sleepiness.
- Factors like distress symptoms, cardiac function, and medications were linked to sleep quality, indicating the need for patient education on better sleep practices and medication management to enhance recovery.
Background: Fatigue is associated with multidimensional factors in heart failure patients. Investigating longitudinal changes in fatigue and its association in patients undergoing cardiac surgery is needed to create interventions for improving fatigue during recovery.
Aims: This study examined the trajectory of fatigue and its associated factors over time in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
Objective: We investigated the variation in dimensionality (D2) of neuromagnetic activity over the primary sensorimotor cortex (SM1) in healthy adults performing motor tasks of different difficulty.
Methods: Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to record neuromagnetic activity during self-paced, brisk unimanual finger extension at a rate of 1 and 2 Hz using the index finger of the dominant and non-dominant hands in 16 healthy subjects. Motor task difficulty was rated by the relative difference in time measurement between 1 and 2 Hz finger movements of both hands.