Sleep symptoms in syndromes of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease : A proof-of-principle behavioural study

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Sleep disruption is a key clinical issue in the dementias but the sleep phenotypes of these diseases remain poorly characterised. Here we addressed this issue in a proof-of-principle study of 67 patients representing major syndromes of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), in relation to 25 healthy older individuals. We collected reports on clinically-relevant sleep characteristics - time spent overnight in bed, sleep quality, excessive daytime somnolence and disruptive sleep events. Difficulty falling or staying asleep at night and excessive daytime somnolence were significantly more frequently reported for patients with both FTD and AD than healthy controls. On average, patients with FTD and AD retired earlier and patients with AD spent significantly longer in bed overnight than did healthy controls. Excessive daytime somnolence was significantly more frequent in the FTD group than the AD group; AD syndromic subgroups showed similar sleep symptom profiles while FTD subgroups showed more variable profiles. Sleep disturbance is a significant clinical issue in major FTD and AD variant syndromes and may be even more salient in FTD than AD. These preliminary findings warrant further systematic investigation with electrophysiological and neuroanatomical correlation in major proteinopathies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

eNeurologicalSci - 17(2019) vom: 14. Dez., Seite 100212

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sani, Tara P [VerfasserIn]
Bond, Rebecca L [VerfasserIn]
Marshall, Charles R [VerfasserIn]
Hardy, Chris J D [VerfasserIn]
Russell, Lucy L [VerfasserIn]
Moore, Katrina M [VerfasserIn]
Slattery, Catherine F [VerfasserIn]
Paterson, Ross W [VerfasserIn]
Woollacott, Ione O C [VerfasserIn]
Wendi, Indra Putra [VerfasserIn]
Crutch, Sebastian J [VerfasserIn]
Schott, Jonathan M [VerfasserIn]
Rohrer, Jonathan D [VerfasserIn]
Eriksson, Sofia H [VerfasserIn]
Dijk, Derk-Jan [VerfasserIn]
Warren, Jason D [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alzheimer’s disease
Frontotemporal dementia
Journal Article
Progressive aphasia
Semantic dementia
Sleep

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Date Revised 29.01.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ensci.2019.100212

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM304294888