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The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep
Rocking movements appear to affect human sleep. Recent research suggested a facilitated transition from wake to sleep and a boosting of slow oscillations and sleep spindles due to lateral rocking movements during an afternoon nap. This study aimed at investigating the effect of vestibular stimulatio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29391413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19880-3 |
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author | Omlin, Ximena Crivelli, Francesco Näf, Monika Heinicke, Lorenz Skorucak, Jelena Malafeev, Alexander Fernandez Guerrero, Antonio Riener, Robert Achermann, Peter |
author_facet | Omlin, Ximena Crivelli, Francesco Näf, Monika Heinicke, Lorenz Skorucak, Jelena Malafeev, Alexander Fernandez Guerrero, Antonio Riener, Robert Achermann, Peter |
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description | Rocking movements appear to affect human sleep. Recent research suggested a facilitated transition from wake to sleep and a boosting of slow oscillations and sleep spindles due to lateral rocking movements during an afternoon nap. This study aimed at investigating the effect of vestibular stimulation on sleep onset, nocturnal sleep and its potential to increase sleep spindles and slow waves, which could influence memory performance. Polysomnography was recorded in 18 males (age: 20–28 years) during three nights: movement until sleep onset (C1), movement for 2 hours (C2), and one baseline (B) without motion. Sleep dependent changes in memory performance were assessed with a word-pair learning task. Although subjects preferred nights with vestibular stimulation, a facilitated sleep onset or a boost in slow oscillations was not observed. N2 sleep and the total number of sleep spindles increased during the 2 h with vestibular stimulation (C2) but not over the entire night. Memory performance increased over night but did not differ between conditions. The lack of an effect might be due to the already high sleep efficiency (96%) and sleep quality of our subjects during baseline. Nocturnal sleep in good sleepers might not benefit from the potential facilitating effects of vestibular stimulation. |
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spelling | pubmed-57947572018-02-12 The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep Omlin, Ximena Crivelli, Francesco Näf, Monika Heinicke, Lorenz Skorucak, Jelena Malafeev, Alexander Fernandez Guerrero, Antonio Riener, Robert Achermann, Peter Sci Rep Article Rocking movements appear to affect human sleep. Recent research suggested a facilitated transition from wake to sleep and a boosting of slow oscillations and sleep spindles due to lateral rocking movements during an afternoon nap. This study aimed at investigating the effect of vestibular stimulation on sleep onset, nocturnal sleep and its potential to increase sleep spindles and slow waves, which could influence memory performance. Polysomnography was recorded in 18 males (age: 20–28 years) during three nights: movement until sleep onset (C1), movement for 2 hours (C2), and one baseline (B) without motion. Sleep dependent changes in memory performance were assessed with a word-pair learning task. Although subjects preferred nights with vestibular stimulation, a facilitated sleep onset or a boost in slow oscillations was not observed. N2 sleep and the total number of sleep spindles increased during the 2 h with vestibular stimulation (C2) but not over the entire night. Memory performance increased over night but did not differ between conditions. The lack of an effect might be due to the already high sleep efficiency (96%) and sleep quality of our subjects during baseline. Nocturnal sleep in good sleepers might not benefit from the potential facilitating effects of vestibular stimulation. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5794757/ /pubmed/29391413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19880-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Omlin, Ximena Crivelli, Francesco Näf, Monika Heinicke, Lorenz Skorucak, Jelena Malafeev, Alexander Fernandez Guerrero, Antonio Riener, Robert Achermann, Peter The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep |
title | The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep |
title_full | The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep |
title_fullStr | The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep |
title_short | The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep |
title_sort | effect of a slowly rocking bed on sleep |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29391413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19880-3 |
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