Conveners
Brückensymposium: Sleep and Mental Health
- Kerstin Hoedlmoser (University of Salzburg)
Description
Sleep problems are among the most frequent symptoms in various psychiatric disorders. During the past years, the prevalence of sleep disturbances has been increasing with this being rather consistent in most industrialized societies. We want to introduce and discuss the tight and bivariate relationships between sleep and mental health. First, Mrs. Azza will discuss recent findings on the effects of specific sleep parameters for the reactivation of emotional memories that might play a protective role in trauma formation. Mr. Junghanns will present findings on disturbed sleep and overnight memory consolidation in those alcohol patients with an early relapse after psychotherapy. In the third contribution, Mr. Göder will report on the relationship between sleep spindle characteristics and psychotic symptoms. He, will discuss sleep spindles (a hallmark of NREM2 sleep) as a biological marker of psychotic disorders. Last but not least Mrs. Hödlmoser will demonstrate longitudinal data discussing how the development of sleep spindles might be involved in the development and/or persistence of mood and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.
Intrusive memories developed after trauma are thought to rely on an insufficient memory integration of the event hampering its adaptive consolidation. Sleep plays an essential role in the processing and integration of emotional memories, but at the same time is often disturbed after trauma. Recent evidence found a correlative link between sleep disturbances and posttraumatic symptoms. The...
Einleitung/Fragestellung:
Eine Nacht mit wenig oder gar keinem Schlaf hat spürbare Auswirkungen auf die Tagesbefindlichkeit und die körperliche wie auch kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit am Folgetag. Um diese Beeinträchtigungen objektiv zu messen stehen eine Reihe von standardisierten Testverfahren zur Verfügung, die sich zwar in klinischen Studien bewährt haben, jedoch für den Einsatz in...
There are strong links between sleep and psychosis. Sleep disturbances are commonly observed in schizophrenia patients but studies investigating psychotic symptoms in subjects with sleep disorders are missing.
We studied 24 subjects with insomnia disorder (41±13 years), 47 participants with obstructive sleep apnea (47±11 years) and 33 healthy controls (41±13 years). Sleep in patients with...
Changes in sleep might be involved in the development and/or persistence of mood and anxiety disorders. Most recently, it has been shown that spindle activity is associated with emotion regulation (ER) in youths suffering from affective disorders. However, less is known about the direction of effects between sleep spindles and ER in healthy young subjects. Therefore, we analyzed longitudinal...
