The ASKME survey is a validated 30-item questionnaire that includes five separate areas of sleep knowledge: 1) basic sleep principles, 2) circadian sleep/wake control, 3) normal sleep architecture, 4) common sleep disorders and 5) the effects of drugs and alcohol on sleep.
Behaviorally, the sleep-promoting effects of melatonin are distinctly different from those of common hypnotics and are not associated with alterations in sleep architecture.
In this review, the sleep characteristics of patients with JME were summarized based on the features of circadian rhythm, the possible cause of the early morning seizures, the common subjective and objective sleep disorders, the alterations in sleep architecture, and the effect of sleep deprivation and sodium valproate (VPA).
Idiopathic nightmares are a common disturbance of REM sleep but studies of comorbid pathologies and sleep architecture suggest that NREM sleep is also affected.
The most common side effects following administration of antiepileptic drugs involve alterations in sleep architecture and varying degrees of daytime sleepiness.
Sleep duration and sleep architecture change with age in healthy individuals, with SWS becoming less common with age.
Acute physiologic consequences of OSA, the most common of the SRBDs, include intrathoracic pressure changes, intermittent hypoxemia, frequent cortical arousals, and disrupted sleep architecture.
Trouble sleeping is common in the elderly population and is attributed to changes that aging brings in the sleep architecture and circadian rhythm.
Rationale: Poor sleep is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and environmental factors contribute to sleep deprivation and alterations of sleep architecture.
In his comments, Palat had written that my "sleep architecture" suggested "difficulty with sleep maintenance".
