Ntafouli, Maria; Bargiotas, Panagiotis; Bonakis, Anastasios; Lourentzos, Konstantinos; Vagiakis, Emmanouil; Minaritzoglou, Aliki; Dikeos, Dimitris; Bassetti, Claudio L. A. (2023). The Neuropsychological and Emotional Profile of Adults with Parasomnia: A Case Series. Clinical and translational neuroscience, 7(4), p. 35. MDPI 10.3390/ctn7040035
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Although parasomnias are nocturnal phenomena occurring during sleep or during arousals from sleep, there is increasing evidence that they are associated with daytime dysfunction as well. However, systematic studies in this field are scarce. The aim of the current case series was to investigate the sleep–wake, neuropsychological and emotional profiles of patients with parasomnias. Thirty patients with parasomnia (13 NREM, 17 REM) and 30 healthy subjects matched for age, sex and educational status were included. All participants underwent comprehensive neuropsychological, cognitive and behavioral evaluation. We found that parasomnia patients scored higher in all neuropsychological, emotional, sleep–wake and quality of life scales compared to healthy subjects. The presence of a parasomnia was associated with major impact on daytime functioning across several domains with increased levels of fatigue (FSS > 4) in 56%, sleepiness (ESS > 10) in 47%, depressive symptoms (BDI > 20) in 17%, anxiety (PSWQ > 52) in 17%, anger expression out (STAXI A > 16) in 27% and anger expression in (STAXI B > 16) in 23%, as well as a reduced average quality of life score (RAND derived from SF-36). Sleep–wake disturbances were significantly correlated with QoL scores. In the intergroup analysis between REM/NREM, we found that the REM group had worse cognitive performance and lower levels of fatigue/energy compared to NREM patients. These findings suggest that parasomnia is associated with difficulties in several aspects of daytime functioning (cognitive, affective/emotional and physical) and, therefore, parasomnia diagnostic workup should not be limited only to nocturnal phenomena.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ntafouli, Maria, Bargiotas, Panagiotis, Bassetti, Claudio L.A. |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
2514-183X |
Publisher: |
MDPI |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Chantal Kottler |
Date Deposited: |
05 Jan 2024 13:27 |
Last Modified: |
14 Mar 2024 08:48 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/ctn7040035 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/191263 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/191263 |
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