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Original Source: Identifying and Treating Arousal Related Deficits in Neglect and Dysphagia
The purpose of this study is to examine how stroke can alter arousal, alertness, neglect and dysphagia, and whether a medication, modafinil, can improve arousal.
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Insomnia and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness EDS
Sleep disorders disrupt sleep during the night, or cause sleepiness during the day, caused by physiological or psychological factors. The common ones include snoring and sleep apnea, insomnia, par...
Visual acuity (VA) is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain. Visu...
Sleep apnea (AP-ne-ah) is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep. Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes. They often...
Polo-like kinase (Plk) is an important cell cycle regulatory kinase that has been implicated in a multitude of cell cycle events. Plks form a family of four different proteins that regulates many as...
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Diet linked to excessive daytime sleepiness in adults
DARIEN, IL - A new study suggests that your level of sleepiness or alertness during the day may be related to the type of food that you eat. Results show that higher fat consumption was associated w...
Sleepiness: Causes, Consequences and Treatment
Few large textbooks focus on a single specific sleep symptom. With Sleepiness: Causes, Consequences and Treatment, 2 well-recognized sleep experts, Michael J. Thorpy and Michel Billiard, succeed in pr...
Diet Linked With Daytime Sleepiness And Alertness In Healthy Adults
A new study suggests that your level of sleepiness or alertness during the day may be related to the type of food that you eat. Results show that higher fat consumption was associated with increased o...
A new study suggests that there is a significant correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and vitamin D, and race plays an important factor. Results show that in patients with normal vitamin D...
When Sleepiness Interferes With Your Life, It's Time to Get Answers
National Sleep Foundation Launches New Website on Excessive Sleepiness WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) launched a new website today to help...
Obesity, Depression Blamed for Daytime Sleepiness 'Epidemic'
By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity has been linked to a host of health problems including heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers, and...
Diet linked to daytime sleepiness and alertness in healthy adults
A new study suggests that your level of sleepiness or alertness during the day may be related to the type of food that you eat.
Excessive daytime sleepiness during pregnancy should raise the alarm
Excessive daytime sleepiness is a common occurrence in pregnant women, particularly during the third trimester, but researchers warn that it might not always be physiologically normal.
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Measurements of sleepiness and fatigue.
Sleepiness and fatigue are terms commonly used in clinical practice and research. At times sleepiness and fatigue are used interchangeably; however, each of them has distinct implications for diagnosi...
Daytime course of sleepiness in de novo Parkinson's disease patients.
Normal subjects show an increase of sleepiness in the morning, early afternoon and before sleep. In the advanced stages of Parkinson's disease (PD) the mean level of sleepiness is quite high, while wi...
Residual sleepiness in sleep apnoea patients treated by continuous positive airway pressure.
Hypoxic brain damage might explain persistent sleepiness in some continuous positive airway pressure-compliant obstructive sleep apnoea called residual excessive sleepiness. Although continuous positi...
Depressive symptoms and sleepiness among latino farmworkers in eastern north Carolina.
ABSTRACT Depression and sleepiness are both risk factors for occupational accidents and unintentional injury. Relatively little is known about the experiences of these risk factors in the immigrant...
Correlating subjective and objective sleepiness: revisiting the association using survival analysis.
The Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) are the most commonly used measures of subjective and objective sleepiness, respectively. The strength of the association betw...
