Sleep, Circadian Rhythmicity and Response to Chronotherapy in University Students: Tips from Chronobiology Practicals

Montagnese, Sara; Zarantonello, Lisa; Formentin, Chiara; Zancato, Christian; Bonetto, Maria Beatrice; Biscontin, Alberto; Cusumano, Paola; Costa, Rodolfo

doi:10.5334/jcr.202

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“…The light of the hospital room is turned on at 6:00 a.m. and the inpatients receive photic stimulation every morning. 35 When the awakening-sleep rhythm was reconstructed, the patients became able to participate in occupational therapy constantly. The rehabilitation was scheduled in a regular week plan.…”

Section: Rehabilitations For Reconstruction Of Awakening-sleep Rhythm and Memory Consolidationmentioning

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A clinical practice for the hippocampal neurogenesis by chronobiological therapy

Shiozawa

Watanabe

2021

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Background: In 1965 Altman achieved the hippocampal neurogenesis in rats. In addition, when enough activities are provided in the daytime, and it is suggested that the consolidation of the memory during sleep will be achieved by hippocampal neurogenesis. Aims: We show a recovery method about dementia of neurodegenerative diseases on this article. We introduce our clinical practice of the chronobiological therapy regarding 6 dementia cases. Method: We provided the chronobiological therapy based on awakening-sleep rhythm by daily medical care. We examined autonomic nervous disorders and fluctuating cognition using physical examination. We performed the medication to promote the changes from sleep to awakening-activities in morning. In daytime, our occupational therapy was set, and awakening-activities was made stable. At night we gave the medication to make an active state decreased and stabilize deep sleep. The clinical evaluation was carried out by psychological examination. And Voxel-based Specific Regional Analysis System for Alzheimer’s Disease (VSRAD) of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which had been already established, was performed. The conventional study in VSRAD showed the state that the brain atrophy was progressive. Results: About Z-score showing the hippocampal atrophy in VSRAD we accomplished the improvement of 1.28 points from 0.03 about six dementia cases by the chronobiological therapy. These improvements were accompanied by the better changes of the cognitive functions. Conclusion: We speculate that the hippocampal neurogenesis may be derived by reconstructing awakening-sleep rhythm using the chronobiological medicines. If neurogenesis is more dominant than neurodegeneration, dementia associated with the neurodegeneration can be treated.

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Section: Rehabilitations For Reconstruction Of Awakening-sleep Rhythm and Memory Consolidationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A clinical practice for the hippocampal neurogenesis by chronobiological therapy

Shiozawa

Watanabe

2021

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Personalising circadian hygiene educational initiatives aimed at university students—“He who has ears to hear, let him hear”

Giusti,

Domenie,

Zarantonello

et al. 2024

Journal of Sleep Research

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SummaryThe aim of the present study was to characterise “early drop‐outs” (n = 3185) out of a group of university students (n = 7766) engaged in an ongoing circadian education initiative, to evaluate its efficacy and direct its developments. The initiative is aimed at improving sleep timing/quality through one of two sets of circadian hygiene advice covering the timing of sleep, meals, exercise and light exposure, and it has already been shown to have a positive effect on sleep timing. This second, interim analysis confirmed the high prevalence of disturbed night sleep and social jetlag amongst students at Padova University. Three‐thousand, one‐hundred and eighty‐five (41.0%) students were early drop‐outs. These were more commonly males (46.4 versus 37.6%; χ2 = 58, p < 0.0001), had later sleep–wake habits, more daytime sleepiness and worse night sleep quality. Chronotype distribution was also different, with a slight but significantly higher proportion of extremely evening/evening types amongst early drop‐outs (χ2 = 10, p < 0.05). These results suggest that the more evening the student, the lower their likelihood of choosing/being able to follow circadian advice.

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Sleep, Circadian Rhythmicity and Response to Chronotherapy in University Students: Tips from Chronobiology Practicals

Cited by 2 publications

References 48 publications

A clinical practice for the hippocampal neurogenesis by chronobiological therapy

A clinical practice for the hippocampal neurogenesis by chronobiological therapy

Personalising circadian hygiene educational initiatives aimed at university students—“He who has ears to hear, let him hear”

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