sleep

As the title says. How??? I've been getting through so far because I'm prescribed zopiclone which I'm allowed to use a maximum of twice a week. The *very hot* weather this summer has so far happened in short clusters of days, so I've been able to use zopiclone for all the really hot ones...

Research on rodents. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/variants-in-water-channel-gene-tied-to-more-restful-sleep-67529 Paper here

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359104520918364 ETA on sci-hub https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104520918364

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00222/full

full article: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/03/03/better-sleep-prebiotics-could-help

Free fulltext: https://ecronicon.com/ecne/a-critical-review-to-investigate-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-as-sleep-disorder.php

Two threads on this topic have been merged. The thread title has been changed to cover both threads. Sigh. I rely quite a lot on the weight of my duvet to make me sleepy, so when it's too hot for my usual duvet, I'm rather at a loss for getting to sleep. Last summer, I was able to sleep...

This is an article of a paper that is yet to be published. View here. There is much more to the article, discusses a trial with growth hormone. BIAFAC stands for brain injury associated fatigue and altered cognition. It makes me wonder, how many of us had a genuine concussion prior to...

full blog here https://cfs-survivors.org/blog/2019/12/22/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-good-nights-sleep/

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Volume 83, January 2020, Pages 309-314 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159119304507?dgcid=author

PubMed abstract only at the moment, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771749 ETA: Paper now published. Paywall, https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/full/10.5664/jcsm.8114 Not available via Sci hub at time of editing.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sleep-may-trigger-rhythmic-power-washing-brain?fbclid=IwAR04YDRSjisQU_s9kY3aJLeB2KxdExrcE2mULFoE_kbR1fR3CfvZfxBjeVE Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first time...

From Twitter this morning Perhaps part of the ME big picture ? https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30652-X?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S089662731930652X?showall=true Apologies, phone being glitchy this morning so couldn't t copy and paste heading

Not from the same study unfortunately but these recent findings of visual deficits due to sleep deprivation : https://www.physoc.org/news_article/biomarker-to-avoid-safety-risk-for-the-sleep-deprived-eye-movement-test-indicates-sleep-loss/ strike me as similar, on first reading, to those...

There are a number of references to chronic fatigue syndrome in this paper, including in the abstract, so I thought I would post it here, particularly given that Systrom is a co-author. He is now doing some ME/CFS research in the US. Free full text...

Paywall, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ped.13976 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/ped.13976

Source: Handbook of Sleep Disorders in Medical Conditions 2019, Pages 325-343 Date: March 15, 2019 URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128130148000159 Chapter 15 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia ------------------------------------------------------...

https://neurosciencenews.com/infection-sleep-10725/

I'm not a fruit fly :-P but find this article interessting, and wonder if there is a human version. When I was at my worst, I had hypersomnia, hardly "awake" at all. For me, whatever my ME is, clearly affects my sleep-wake cycles...

A note for those who use sleep medication to help combat ME sleep issues - this might be more difficult to answer since the body becomes somewhat dependent on medication when taken chronically. If you could try to answer based on your time with ME before you ever took sleep meds or, if that is...