Sleep-wake rhythm disturbances and perceived sleep in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome

[Kalliope]

Sleep-wake rhythm disturbances and perceived sleep in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome
Study by among others professor Wyller. He is a controversial researcher as he doesn't use strict criteria on his patients and as he has a biopsycosocial approach to ME. He has a trial on music therapy as treatment for ME and applied for funds for a trial on Lightning Process (sic) as another treatment.

Still, this study could be of interest nevertheless.
The study included 120 adolescent CFS-patients and 39 healthy individuals.

- The activity measures showed that the CFS patients stayed significantly longer in bed, had a significantly delayed mid-sleep time and a more varied sleep-wake rhythm during weekdays compared with healthy individuals. On the KSQ, the CFS patients reported significantly more insomnia symptoms, sleepiness, awakening problems and a longer sleep onset latency than healthy individuals. These results might indicate that disrupted sleep-wake phase could contribute to adolescent CFS; however, further investigations are warranted.

 

[anni66]

Sleep-wake rhythm disturbances and perceived sleep in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome
Study by among others professor Wyller. He is a controversial researcher as he doesn't use strict criteria on his patients and as he has a biopsycosocial approach to ME. He has a trial on music therapy as treatment for ME and applied for funds for a trial on Lightning Process (sic) as another treatment.

Still, this study could be of interest nevertheless.
The study included 120 adolescent CFS-patients and 39 healthy individuals.

- The activity measures showed that the CFS patients stayed significantly longer in bed, had a significantly delayed mid-sleep time and a more varied sleep-wake rhythm during weekdays compared with healthy individuals. On the KSQ, the CFS patients reported significantly more insomnia symptoms, sleepiness, awakening problems and a longer sleep onset latency than healthy individuals. These results might indicate that disrupted sleep-wake phase could contribute to adolescent CFS; however, further investigations are warranted.

Is this not evidence of dysfunctional HPA axis ?

 

[Snowdrop]

Is this not evidence of dysfunctional HPA axis ?

It was thought that circadian rhythm was controlled by the brain. Apparently this is not true.

Was just reading today about the Nobel prize in physiology being given to scientists researching CR.

This might be relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/health/nobel-prize-medicine.html

 

[CFS_for_19_years]

- The activity measures showed that the CFS patients stayed significantly longer in bed, had a significantly delayed mid-sleep time and a more varied sleep-wake rhythm during weekdays compared with healthy individuals. On the KSQ, the CFS patients reported significantly more insomnia symptoms, sleepiness, awakening problems and a longer sleep onset latency than healthy individuals. These results might indicate that disrupted sleep-wake phase could contribute to adolescent CFS; however, further investigations are warranted.

My impression is that disrupted sleep patterns are the result of ME/CFS, not the cause of ME/CFS.

 

[Mithriel]

The usual back to front rubbish because it is easier to describe sleep with a questionnaire than actually do any science into the causes of ME. These people are second rate minds doing second rate research.