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Circadian re-set repairs long-COVID in a prodromal Parkinson's parallel: a case series.
J Med Case Rep
October 2024
Organic Clinic, 3-1-57 Honmachi, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0021, Japan.
Background: In this case series, results from daily visual exposure to intense polychromatic light of 2000 to 4000 LUX is presented. Bright light treatment is a standard procedure for treating seasonal affective disorder and prodromal Parkinson's disease with high success. With the post-encephalitic symptoms of long-COVID closely approximating those of prodromal Parkinson's disease, we treated insomnia and sleep-related parameters in these patients, including total sleep, number of awakenings, tendency to fall back to sleep, and fatigue, to determine whether mending sleep could improve quality of life.
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Sci Rep
May 2020
The Research Institute for Time Studies, Yamaguchi University, 1677-1 Yoshida, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, 753-8511, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common brain disorder that can cause sleep problems, especially in people taking certain medications.
- Researchers found that bright light therapy (BLT) helps improve sleep for PD patients who are on these medications.
- The improvement in sleep may be related to fixing the body's natural sleep-wake cycles, which can be messed up in PD patients taking medication.
Bile acid abnormality induced by intestinal dysbiosis might explain lipid metabolism in Parkinson's disease.
Med Hypotheses
January 2020
Department of Neurology, NHO Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan; Organic Clinic, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.
Intestinal dysbiosis refers to an imbalance in the intestinal flora. The concept of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), a condition of abnormal proliferation of the small intestine microbiota, has been proposed as a form of small intestine dysbiosis. In Parkinson's disease patients, weight loss and metabolic disorders such as lipid abnormalities are frequently encountered.
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