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AASM Membership Sections Newsletter
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Issue #6
American Academy
of Sleep Medicine
Mikhail Bochkarev, MD, PhD
Dr. Mikhail Bochkarev, MD, PhD, is starting
his second year as a member of the Sleep
Deprivation section. He is a Research
Fellow in the Sleep Medicine Laborato-
ry, Federal Almazov Medical Research
Centre in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He
also works as a sleep disorders specialist
at Saint-Petersburg Clinical Hospital of
the Russian Academy of Sciences. He
received the Fulbright award and was
a visiting postdoctoral fellow working in
shift-work studies in the Center for Sleep
and Circadian Biology at Northwestern
University from 2012-2013. He was
certified as a Somnologist by the Euro-
pean Sleep Research Society in 2014.
Dr. Bochkarev’s primary research inter-
ests concern the effects of sleep loss on
health and performance and the humans’
adaptation to natural conditions of the Far
North. Together with colleagues from the
Research Laboratory for Epidemiology of
Hypertension, he assesses the association
of sleep and cardiovascular diseases in a
study “The Epidemiology of cardiovascular
diseases in 12 regions of Russian Federa-
tion (ESSE-RF)”.
Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MSc
Dr. Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MSc, is
Assistant Professor of Sleep and Chrono-
biology in Psychiatry at the University of
Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medi-
cine. Dr. Basner’s primary research inter-
ests concern the effects of sleep loss on
neurobehavioral and cognitive functions,
population studies on sleep time and wak-
ing activities, and the effects of traffic noise
on sleep and recuperation. Dr. Basner is
Deputy Editor of the Journal SLEEP and
President of the International Commission
of Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN).
Abid Malik, MD
Dr. Abid Malik, MD, is the Medical Director
of the Sleep Disorder Center at Orlando
Health (South Seminole Site), Vice Chair-
man of the Department of Psychiatry at
South Seminole Hospital (part of Orlando
Health) and Assistant Professor of Psy-
chiatry at the University of Central Florida
College of Medicine. Dr. Malik has an
active clinical practice in both Sleep Medi-
cine and Psychiatry. His research interests
include the effect of sleep deprivation on
psychiatric disorders, and vice versa. ■
Chua
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and colleagues recently showed
that physiological effects of sleep depriva-
tion are highly reproducible across a night
of sleep deprivation. The implication of
this study is that if somebody notices de-
cline in performance after a night of sleep
deprivation, they will likely notice similar
decline with future nights of sleep depriva-
tion as well.
Catli
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and colleagues have demonstrated
in an interesting study that yawning fre-
quency may indicate sleep deprivation.
Franco
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and colleagues demonstrated in
a recent, interesting study that consump-
tion of non-alcoholic beer at dinner time
helps to improve the quality of sleep at
night. Authors feel this is due to that fact
that Beer is the only beverage that contains
hops, a plant which has a sedative effect.
References:
1. Sahlem GL, Kalivas B, Fox JB, Lamb
K, Roper A, Williams EN, Williams
NR, Korte JE, Zuschlag ZD, El Sab-
bagh S, Guille C, Barth KS, Uhde TW,
George MS, Short EB. Adjunctive triple
chronotherapy (combined total sleep
deprivation, sleep phase advance, and
bright light therapy) rapidly improves
mood and suicidality in suicidal de-
pressed inpatients: An open label pilot
study. J Psychiatr Res. 2014 Sep 3. pii:
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2. Chua EC, Yeo SC, Lee IT, Tan LC,
Lau P, Tan SS, Ho Mien I, Gooley JJ.,
Individual differences in physiologic
measures are stable across repeated
exposures to total sleep deprivation.
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Print 2014 Sep 1.
3. Catli T, Acar M, Hanci D, Arikan OK,
Cingi C. Importance of yawning in the
evaluation of excessive daytime sleep-
iness: a prospective clinical study. Eur
Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2014 Sep 27
4. Franco L, Bravo R, Galán C, Rodrí-
guez AB, Barriga C, Cubero J. Effect
of non-alcoholic beer on Subjective
Sleep Quality in a university stressed
population. Acta Physiol Hung. 2014
Sep;101(3):353-61. doi: 10.1556/
APhysiol.101.2014.3.10.
Mood and emotion regulation were
affected in adolescents subjected to short
sleep duration (6.5h in bed for 5 nights).
Reference:
Child Psychol Psychiatry.
2014;55(2):180-90. doi: 10.1111/
jcpp.12125. Epub 2013 Jul 30. Sleep restric-
tion worsens mood and emotion regula-
tion in adolescents.
Baum KT1, Desai A, Field J, Miller LE,
Rausch J, Beebe DW.
Increased work-family conflicts in
healthcare workers subjected to sleep in-
sufficiency was seen up to 2 years later.
Reference:
Workplace Health Saf. 2014 Jul;62(7):282-
91. doi: 10.3928/21650799-20140617-04.
Work-family conflict, psychological distress,
and sleep deficiency among patient care
workers. Jacobsen HB, Reme SE, Sembajwe
G, Hopcia K, Stoddard AM, Kenwood C,
Stiles TC, Sorensen G, Buxton OM.
Concerning effects of sleep deprivation
in healthy humans, with evidence of a psy-
chotic-like behavior, including distortions
in perception and cognitive disorganization
were demonstrated.
Reference:
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2014 Jul 2;34(27):9134-40.
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0904-14.2014.
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