Effects of exercise on sleep quality in women - A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: Insomnia affects at least one-third of the global population and is more common in women. Exercise has been reported to improve sleep quality and subsequent use of hypnotics. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to assess the effect of exercise on sleep quality in adult women.

Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Executive Function in Children Who Snore.

Introduction: Mild sleep-disordered breathing (mSDB) in children is associated with both neurobehavioral morbidity and reduced quality of life (QOL). However, the association between symptom burden and QOL with executive function is not well understood, and it is not known whether QOL and symptom burden may help identify children with neurocognitive dysfunction.

Objective: To assess associations among executive function, QOL, and symptom burden in children with mSDB.

Frontal White Matter Changes and Craving Recovery in Inpatients With Heroin Use Disorder.

Importance: Amidst an unprecedented opioid epidemic, identifying neurobiological correlates of change with medication-assisted treatment of heroin use disorder is imperative. White matter impairments in individuals with heroin use disorder (HUD) have been associated with drug craving, a reliable predictor of treatment outcomes; however, little is known about structural connectivity changes with inpatient treatment and abstinence in individuals with HUD.

Objective: To assess white matter microstructure and associations with drug craving changes with inpatient treatment in individuals with HUD (effects of time and rescan compared with controls).

Vestibular epilepsy: clinical and electroencephalographic characteristics with the proposed diagnostic criteria.

Background: Focal seizures may encompass vestibular sensations in their symptomatology. When these manifestations occur in isolation or constitute the predominant symptom, they prompt consideration for diagnosing recurrent paroxysmal vertigo. However, the characterization of "vestibular epilepsy" remains debated and underexplored.

Association between iron intake and excessive daytime sleepiness in the community-dwelling Japanese: the Toon Health Study.

Purpose: Brain iron deficiency is known to cause dopaminergic dysfunction in people with restless legs syndrome. Considering the role that dopamine plays in the wake-promoting system, we speculated that iron deficiency may contribute to the development of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). Therefore, we conducted the present study to examine the association between iron intake and EDS in the general population.

The effect of aerobic exercise on sleep disorder in menopausal women: a systematic review and meta-analyses.

Objective: This study systematically evaluated the effect of aerobic exercise on sleep disorders in menopausal women and proposed a practical program from the perspective of "what to practice," "how much to practice," and "how to practice." We proposed the program from the standpoint of training science.

Methods: Up to March 20, 2023, a total of 16 articles and 19 RCT studies were retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, Springer, Science Direct, China Knowledge Network, Wanfang, and VIP.

Psychological factors and health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia patients.

Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) has been associated with decreased health-related quality of life (HRQoL), which has been linked to psychological variables such as anxiety, depression, coping, and social support. This study aimed to simultaneously analyse the association of these variables with HRQoL in FM patients and explore their mediating role in the relationship between somatic symptoms and HRQoL.

Participants And Procedure: A cross-sectional sample of 134 FM patients (97% women) with no other rheumatologic diseases followed in specialized healthcare services completed self-report questionnaires to evaluate pain, fatigue, sleep, anxiety, depression, coping, social support, and HRQoL.

Commonly encountered symptoms and their management in patients with cirrhosis.

This exhaustive review, explored the multifaceted symptoms and their management in patients with cirrhosis. Patients frequently endure pain, muscle cramps, sleep disturbances, psychological distress, and gastrointestinal issues, significantly impairing their quality of life. Pain is prevalent, often requiring analgesics, while muscle cramps affect up to 68% of patients, treated with supplements like zinc and taurine despite limited evidence.

Psychological Features of Fibromyalgia in the Psychological Health Services.

Patients with health pathologies may exhibit psychological features in addition to medical symptomatology. A sample of 76 Italian women with an age range between 23 and 78 years old (mean = 50.22 ± 10.

Sex-related hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis adaptation during military training.

Reproductive endocrine function adapts to psychological, environmental, and energy-associated stressors. Multistressor environments upregulate hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, causing suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis, but it is not known if this pattern or its magnitude is sex biased. We compared HPG and HPA axis activity in 9 men and 34 women undergoing Army training.

Age- and sex-associated alterations in hypothalamic mitochondrial bioenergetics and inflammatory-associated signaling in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

Mitochondrial dysfunction and associated inflammatory signaling are pivotal in both aging and in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Studies have also shown that hypothalamic function is affected in AD. The hypothalamus may be a target for AD drugs given that mitochondrial alterations are observed in the hypothalamus.

The problem of pain in systemic lupus erythematosus: A comprehensive analysis of pain distribution using the CHOIR body map and PROMIS measures.

Background: Our study investigates the associations between pain distribution, biopsychosocial factors, and Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) measures in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Employing self-reported pain body maps, we aim to characterize the distribution of pain and its impact on biopsychosocial measures.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the electronic health records (EHR) of 332 adult patients with SLE attending pain clinics at an academic medical center.

The role of macrophage and adipocyte mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of obesity.

Obesity has emerged as a prominent global public health concern, leading to the development of numerous metabolic disorders such as cardiovascular diseases, type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), sleep apnea and several system diseases. It is widely recognized that obesity is characterized by a state of inflammation, with immune cells-particularly macrophages-playing a significant role in its pathogenesis through the production of inflammatory cytokines and activation of corresponding pathways. In addition to their immune functions, macrophages have also been implicated in lipogenesis.

The Effect of Kinesio Tape Application on Clinical Parameters in Postmenopausal Women With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Study.

Background With rising life expectancy, women are expected to spend a third of their lives in the postmenopausal stage. Consequently, focusing research on postmenopausal women is considered crucial. Objective This study was conducted to determine the effects of kinesiotaping (KT) and sham KT applied with exercise programs on clinical parameters such as pain, sleep, and quality of life in postmenopausal women with chronic low back pain.

Cognitive function with changing hormonal milieu across menopausal transition stages and related symptoms in midlife and beyond.

The menopausal transition is regarded as the critical window where midlife women experience various health challenges having debilitating impact on their wellbeing. The present cross-sectional study intends to assess cognitive outcome with changing hormonal milieu during menopausal transition and related symptoms in midlife and beyond. For this purpose, cognitive performance of women and menopausal symptoms were studied on the sample of 320 women ranging in age from 45 to 60 years.

VAEEG: Variational auto-encoder for extracting EEG representation.

The electroencephalogram (EEG) exhibits characteristics of complexity and strong randomness. Existing deep learning models for EEG typically target specific objectives and datasets, with their scalability constrained by the size of the dataset, resulting in limited perceptual and generalization abilities. In order to obtain more intuitive, concise, and useful representations of brain activity, we constructed a reconstruction-based self-supervised learning model for EEG based on Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with separate frequency bands, termed variational auto-encoder for EEG (VAEEG).