Author: Fiona C Baker
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Sensors Capabilities, Performance, and Use of Consumer Sleep Technology
This article reviews how CSTs can process information about sleep, physiology, and environment. The growing number of sensors in wearable devices and the meaning of the data collected are reviewed.
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Sleep and Women’s Health: Sex- And Age-Specific Contributors to Alcohol Use Disorders
As part of the 2018 Research Conference on Sleep and the Health of Women at the National Institutes of Health, three presentations focused on the intersection between alcohol and sleep in women, including links between disrupted sleep and the risk of AUD.
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Changes in Heart Rate and Blood Pressure During Nocturnal Hot Flashes Associated With and Without Awakenings
Here, we investigated the impact on CV functioning of single nocturnal HFs, considering whether or not they were accompanied by arousals or awakenings.
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Automatic Artifact Detection in Impedance Cardiogram Using Pulse Similarity Index
We proposed a new algorithm for the automatic detection and exclusion of corrupted ICG cardiac cycles by defining a pulse similarity index that quantifies the level of pulse corruption and its diversion from a typical-shaped pulse.
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Wearable Sleep Technology in Clinical and Research Settings
The current state-of-the-art review aims to highlight use, validation and utility of consumer wearable sleep-trackers in clinical practice and research.
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Reducing bedtime physiological arousal levels using immersive audio-visual respiratory bio-feedback: a pilot study in women with insomnia symptoms
The current study evaluated the effect of a novel, acute behavioral experimental manipulation in reducing bedtime physiological hyperarousal in women with insomnia symptoms.
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Does Pain Vary across the Menstrual Cycle? A Review
Animal studies support both pronociceptive and antinociceptive actions of oestradiol and progesterone suggesting that the net effect of these hormones on pain is complex and likely depends on the interaction between hormones and the extent of fluctuation rather than absolute hormone levels.
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Validation of Sleep-Tracking Technology Compared with Polysomnography in Adolescents
Objective- To evaluate the accuracy in measuring nighttime sleep of a fitness tracker (Jawbone UP) compared to polysomnography (PSG).
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What We Know About Primary Dysmenorrhea Today: A Critical Review
This review reports on current knowledge, particularly with regards to the impact and consequences of recurrent menstrual pain on pain sensitivity, mood, quality of life and sleep in women with primary dysmenorrhea.
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Menstrual Cycle-Related Variation in Physiological Sleep in Women in the Early Menopausal Transition
The objective of the study was to assess the impact of menstrual cycle phase on the polysomnogram and electroencephalographic (EEG) features of sleep in midlife women.
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Women with Dysmenorrhoea Are Hypersensitive to Experimentally Induced Forearm Ischaemia During Painful Menstruation and During the Pain-Free Follicular Phase
We investigated whether women with dysmenorrhoea, compared with controls, have increased sensitivity to experimentally induced deep-tissue muscle ischaemia in a body area distant from that of referred menstrual pain.
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Insomnia in Women Approaching Menopause: Beyond Perception
We aimed to quantify sleep disturbance and the underlying contribution of objective hot flashes in 72 women who had, compared to those who had not, developed clinical insomnia in association with the menopausal transition.