• 수면정신생리
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.5-9
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• 2009

Relatively little is known about the neurobiology of insomnia, despite its wide prevalence and broad medical impact. Although much is still to be learned about the pathophysiology of the disorder, identification, systematic assessment, and appropriate treatment are clearly beneficial to patients. Recent research, using quantitative EEG, polysomnography (PSG), multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) and neuroimaging techniques, suggests that some broad areas can be identified as possible pathophysiological models. Sleep-wake homeostat model hypothesizes a failure in homeostatic regulation of sleep, an attenuated increase in sleep drive with time awake, and/or defective sensing of sleep need. Circadian clock model hypothesizes a dysfunctional circadian clock, resulting in changes in the timing of sleep-wake propensity that are incompatible with normal sleep. Intrinsic sleep-wake state mechanism model suggests that abnormal function of insomnia comprises the systems responsible for expression of the sleep states themselves. Extrinsic over-ride mechanism (stress-response) model suggests that insomnia reflects the consequences of overactivity of one of the systems considered "extrinsic" to normal sleep-wake control. Many current therapies for insomnia are based on these physiological models. Several attempts have been made to create a physiological model that would explain this disorder and could be used as a foundation for treatment. However, it appeared that no model can fully explain and clarify all aspects of insomnia. Future research should be necessary to expand our knowledge on the biological dimensions of insomnia.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.88-95
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• 2000

목 적 : 수면박탈이 정상성인의 기분상태에 주는 영향을 지속적으로 관찰 평가하고, 박탈시간이 진행함에 따라 변화하는 양상을 파악하며, 기타 기분상태에 영향을 주는 요인을 최소화한 실험적 환경을 마련하여, 수면박탈이라는 단일요인이 기분상태에 주는 영향에 근접하고자 하는 연구를 하였다. 방 법 : 공고를 통해 모집된 20대 초반 미혼 남성 70명 중 체중, 수면일지, 전문의와의 면담, BDI, STAI 검사를 시행하여 이상소견을 보인 17명이 제외되었다. 53명이 수면박탈검사에 참여하였으나, 미세수면을 취한 것으로 판단된 17명이 추가로 탈락되었다. 총 36명이 총 40시간의 수면박탈검사를 완수하였고, 평균연령은 20.8(SD=1.35)세였다. 정상대조군은 43명의 미혼남성으로 공고를 통해 모집되었고, 그 평균연령은 20.6세(SD=1.10)이었다. 검사 1주일 전부터 모든 피험자에게 수면에 영향을 줄 수 있는 요인을 제한 하였다. 피험자들은 이후 외부로부터 빛과 소음이 차단된 방에서 일정 조도의 실내등 불빛 하에 일상적인 활동을 하도록 하였다. 각 피험자들은 40시간의 박탈시간 동안 11차례 GVA(Global Vigor and Affect)를 자가 평가하였고, 관찰중인 전문의는 MARDS(Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale)를 평가하였다. 2일째 밤 10시를 기준으로 모든 검사를 끝마치게 되며, 또 다른 정신과 전문의 1인이 수면박탈자가 누구인지 알지 못한 채, 이들의 기분상태를 정상대조군과 비교하였다. 결 과 : 기분상태는 20시간이 넘어서면서 유의하게 부정적으로 변화하였다. 특히, 수면박탈이 20시간을 경과할 때, 가장 가파른 경사로 기분상태가 부정적으로 변화하였다. 수면박탈 40시간째의 집단은 정상대조군과 비교했을 때, 유의하게 우울한 기분을 지니고 있었다. 결 론 : 정상성인의 수면박탈이 기분상태에 주는 영향을 평가하기 위해, 실험과정에 있어 기분에 영향을 줄 수 있는 수면 이외의 다른 요인들을 최대한 배제하여 실험을 하였다. 수면박탈은 기분에 부정적인 영향을 미치며, 수면박탈시간이 경과함에 따라 기분상태는 더욱 악화되었다.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2008

Sleep is an essential process maintaining the life cycle of the human. In parallel with physiological, cognitive, subjective, and behavioral changes that take place during the sleep, there are remarkable changes in the electroencephalogram (EEG) that reflect the underlying electro-physiological activity of the brain. However, analyzing EEG and relating the results to clinical observations is often very hard due to the complexity and a huge data amount. In this article, I introduce several linear and non-linear tools, developed to analyze a huge time series data in many scientific researches, and apply them to EEG to characterize various sleep states. In particular, the spectral analysis, detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), and synchrony analysis are administered to EEG recorded during nocturnal polysomnography (NPSG) processes and daytime multiple sleep latency tests (MSLT). I report that 1) sleep stages could be differentiated by the spectral analysis and the DFA ; 2) the gradual transition from Wake to Sleep during the sleep onset could be illustrated by the spectral analysis and the DFA ; 3) electrophysiological properties of narcolepsy could be characterized by the DFA ; 4) hypnic jerks (sleep starts) could be quantified by the synchrony analysis.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.82-90
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• 1995

Objectives : Insomnia is significantly influenced by the pre-sleep arousal, self efficacy, sleep hygiene, depression and anxiety. The authors tried to explore how these factors are related with the clinical features of sleep. Methods : Fifty three patients diagnosed as insomnia by DSM-IV criteria were studied. They filled up the pre-sleep arousal scale(PSAS), sleep efficacy scale(SES), sleep hygiene awareness and practice scale, BDI, and state and trait anxiety scales. Results: 1) The mean values of sleep-related variables were as follows : Sleep latency,136.89 minutes ; frequences of awakening during a night, 2.28 ; minutes to get back to sleep, 42.70 ; total sleep time, 180.19 minutes ; duration of illness, 72.00 months. 2) The mean scores of scales were as follows : PSAS(cognitive), 22.40 ; PSAS(somatic), 17.32 ; SES, 20.16 ; sleep hygiene knowledge, 25.96 ; caffein knowledge, 59.78 ; sleep hygiene practice, 42.12 ; BDI. 18.2 ; state anxiety, 41.24 ; trait anxiety ; 44.50. 3) In the subjects with superimposed depression, the mean frequency of awakening during a night and the mean pre-sleep arousal scale score were higher than in those without depression. 4) Frequency of awakening were correlated positively with a PSAS(a tight tense feeling in your muscle) and sleep hygiene awareness. PSAS(cognitive) were correlated positively with a PSAS(somatic). BDI correlated positively with a PSAS item(a jittery, nervous feeling in your body)and a SES item (not allow a poor night's sleep to interfere with daily activities). Anxiety scales were correlated positively with sleep hygiene practice scale sleep, and PSAS were correlated negatively with SES. Conclusions : The mean scores of PSAS, SES, sleep hygiene awareness and practice scale, BDI, state and trait anxiety scales of insomniacs were correlated either positively or negatively in insomnia patients. These factors seem to contribute to the development and maintainence of insomnia.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.171-182
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• 2000

This study was performed to investigate the effect of kangaroo care on body weight, physiological responses and behavioral states in premature infants. The subjects were 32 premature infants, fifteen for the kangaroo care group and seventeen for the control group, who hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit at a university-affiliated hospital. The kangaroo care was applied 8 times during the twenty five days with 40 minutes for each session. The kangaroo care provides the skin-to-skin contact during which a premature infant wearing a diaper and a hat is placed on its mother's chest. As for the measures, body weight was measured everyday. The levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine and 17-OHCS were measured twice, before beginning the first intervention and after finishing the last intervention. While each session of the care is undergoing, such physiological responses were measured periodically as heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, core temperature and skin temperature. The results were as follows : 1. The weight gain was significantly greater in the kangaroo care group than that in the control group during the period of performing the kangaroo care. 2. No significant difference was revealed between the two groups in heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation and core temperature. The kangaroo care group also showed significant increases in the skin temperature. 3. The differences in the levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine and 17-OHCS were not significant between the kangaroo care and the control groups. The level of norepinephrine in the two groups was significantly increased over time. 4. Sleep pattern changed significantly in the kangaroo group from a very restless sleep to a very quiet sleep. These results suggest that kangaroo care is an effective nursing intervention for premature infants in gaining weight, achieving stable physiological responses and facilitating a quiet sleep.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.432-438
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• 2018

Worldwide, caffeine is among the most commonly used stimulatory substances. Unfortunately, significant caffeine consumption is associated with several adverse effects, ranging from sleep disturbances (including insomnia) to cardiovascular problems. This study investigates whether treatment with the Evodia rutaecarpa aqueous extract (ERAE) from berries and its major molecular component, evodiamine, can reduce the adverse caffeine-induced sleep-related and excitation effects. We combined measurements from the pentobarbital-induced sleep test, the open field test, and the locomotor activity test in mice that had been dosed with caffeine. We found that ERAE and evodiamine administration reduced the degree of caffeine-induced sleep disruption during the sleep test. Additionally, we found that evodiamine significantly inhibits caffeine-induced excitation during the open field test, as well as decreasing hyperlocomotion in the locomotor activity test. Additional in vitro experiments showed that caffeine administration decreased the expression of ${\gamma}$-aminobutyric acid $(GABA)_A$ receptor subunits in the mouse hypothalamus. However, evodiamine treatment significantly reversed this expression reduction. Taken together, our results demonstrate that ERAE and its major compound, evodiamine, provide an excellent candidate for the treatment or prevention of caffeine-induced sleep disturbances and excitatory states, and that the mechanism of these beneficial effects acts, at least in part, through the $GABA_A$-ergic system.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.240-247
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• 2006

Frequent arousals during sleep degrade the quality of sleep and result in sleep fragmentation. Visual inspection of physiological signals to detect the arousal events is cumbersome and time-consuming work. The purpose of this study is to develop an automatic algorithm to detect the arousal events. The proposed method is based on time-frequency analysis and the support vector machine classifier using single channel electroencephalogram (EEG). To extract features, first we computed 6 indices to find out the informations of a subject's sleep states. Next powers of each of 4 frequency bands were computed using spectrogram of arousal region. And finally we computed variations of power of EEG frequency to detect arousals. The performance has been assessed using polysomnographic (PSG) recordings of twenty patients with sleep apnea, snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). We could obtain sensitivity of 79.65%, specificity of 89.52% for the data sets. We have shown that proposed method was effective for detecting the arousal events.

• 인지과학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2002

쾌-불쾌, 각성-수면의 2차원 감정상태 공간에서 임의의 좌표값을 지정하면 Parke와 Waters［1］의 근육 기반 얼굴모형에 근거하여 그것에 해당하는 표정을 자동 합성할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하였다. 얼굴 변형의 준거 설정을 위하여 정찬섭, 오경자, 이일병과 변혜란［2］의 표정 DB에 수록된 표정 자료 및 내적감정상태 모형을 사용하였다. DB 내 표정 자료들은 감정 모형에 근거하여 차원값 및 범주로 기술된 내적상태 정보를 포함하고 있었다. 내적상태 변화에 따른 표정의 변형 규칙을 찾기 위해 표집된 표정들에 대해 21개 얼굴 근육의 변화량을 측정하였다. 내적감정상태와 얼굴 근육들의 관계 구조를 파악하기 위해 수집된 자료들을 대상으로 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 이러한 과정을 거쳐 얻어진 변형 규칙은 꽤-불쾌 및 각성-수면 차원값으로 주어지는 내적상태에 대한 자연스러운 표정을 합성해내었다. 이같은 결과는 방대한 양의 자료 및 개별 근육의 변화를 포착하는 회귀분석으로부터 도출된 규칙이 얼굴표정을 합성하는데 유용하고 강력한 도구가 될 수 있음을 시사한다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.231-236
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• 2012

We studied the effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, donepezil and galantamine, and an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blocker, memantine, on sleep-wake architecture in rats. Screw electrodes were chronically implanted into the frontal and parietal cortex for the electroencephalography (EEG). EEG was recorded with a bio-potential amplifier for 8 h from 09:30 to 17:30. Vibration was recorded to monitor animal activity with a vibration measuring device. Sleep-wake states such as wake (W), slow-wave sleep (S) and paradoxical or rapid eye movement sleep (P), were scored every 10 sec by an experimenter. We measured mean episode duration and number of episode to determine which factor sleep disturbance was attributed to. Donepezil and memantine showed a significant increase in total W duration and decreases in total S and P duration and delta activity. Memantine showed increases in sleep latency and motor activity. Changes of S and P duration in memantine were attributed from changes of mean episode duration. Galantamine had little effect on sleep architecture. From these results, it is showed that galantamine may be an anti-dementia drug that does not cause sleep disturbances and memantine may be a drug that causes severe sleep disturbance.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.21-32
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• 2008

Purpose: This study was to identify the effects of the hand acupressure therapy on sleep quality and mood state of adults having insomnia. Methods: The study was a one group pretest-posttest design. The subjects for this study were 15 insomniac adults. All the subjects were assessed for their sleep quality and mood state using PSQI(Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) and POMS(Profile of Mood States). The pellet stimulating hand acupressure therapy was applied using New Seoam Press Pellets 1 Ho for 4 weeks. Data were analyzed by the SPSS 12.0 version program with descriptive statistics and wilcoxon signed-rank test. Results: The mean total score of PSQI was 6.67 and the POMS was 6.68. There were significant decreases in subject's total PSQI score(p=.000) and in total POMS score(p=.008) after the therapy. Conclusion: These results suggest that pellet stimulating hand acupressure therapy is effective for sleep quality and mood state of adults having insomnia.