AASM Membership Sections Newsletter Issue #3
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American Academy
of Sleep Medicine
the journal
SLEEP
and Secretary
of the International Commis-
sion of Biological Effects of Noise
(
ICBEN).
Abid Malik, MD
is starting his first year as a Mem-
ber of the Sleep Deprivation sec-
tion. Dr. Malik is quintuple board
certified. He is Medical Director
of the Sleep Disorder Center at
South Seminole Hospital (part of
Orlando Health) and Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry, Univer-
sity of Central Florida, College of
Medicine.
Adrienne Tucker, PhD
is starting her first year as a
member of the Sleep Deprivation
Steering Committee. Dr. Tucker
is a post-doctoral research fellow
at the University of Amsterdam.
Her research investigates the
effects of sleep loss on aspects of
cognitive and neural function-
ing relevant for decision-making
and other types of complex task
performance.
Steering Committee
Profiles continued
and psychiatric disorders, explaining 26% of the variance in TBI-re-
lated PTSD and 41% of the variance in TBI-related depression. These
results motivate efforts to research the degree to which appropriate
proactive sleep treatments can prevent the incidence of psychiatric
burden in veterans and other individuals suffering from TBI.
Möller-Levet, CS; Archer, SN; Bucca, G; Laing, EE; Slak, A; Kabiljo,
R; Lo, JC; Santhi, N; von Schantz, M; Smith, CP; Dijk, DJ. Effects of
insufficient sleep on circadian rhythmicity and expression ampli-
tude of the human blood transcriptome.
Oroc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2013
Mar;110(12):E1132-41.
The authors describe that it has been known for some time that
sleep deprivation results in adverse health consequences and this
article finds that 711 genes were up or down regulated by insufficient
sleep. This could be one explanation of how insufficient sleep results in
adverse health consequences.
Rupp, TL; Wesensten, NJ; Balkin, TJ. Trait-like vulnerability to total and
partial sleep loss.
SLEEP
2012
Aug;35(8):1163-72.
The authors showed that subjects vulnerable to acute total sleep de-
privation are also more likely to be vulnerable to chronic partial sleep
restriction (3/h per night for 7 days). Therefore, it may be enough to
expose subjects to acute total sleep deprivation to find out whether
they will also be vulnerable to chronic sleep restriction.
Waggoner, LB; Grant, DA; Van Dongen, HPA; Belenky, G; Vila B.
A combined field and laboratory design for assessing the impact of
night shift work on police officer operational performance.
SLEEP
2012;35(11):1575-1577.
Dr. Lauren Waggoner describes a combined field and laboratory
approach to measure the effects of consecutive night shifts on the
performance of police officers. This paper demonstrates one useful
approach to quantifying the impact of work schedule-driven fatigue.
Recent Publications of Interest continued