Virtual Issues
This collection of papers from SLEEP, selected by Fang Han, MD, and authored by Chinese researchers, illustrates the breadth of content in sleep and circadian research published in the journal from across the basic, translational, and clinical spectrum.
The SLEEP and Big Data Virtual Issue explores how we can mine big data to improve the accuracy of diagnosis of sleep and circadian disorders, identify distinct subgroups of patients or trait clusters, understand and predict treatment responses, and determine parameters as predictors of future physical and mental health.
This collection examines a range of sleep parameters and symptoms in trauma-exposed individuals, including EEG markers, REM sleep behaviors, sleep continuity and duration, as well as sleep-related genetic markers. The articles also span a range of trauma-exposed populations, such as combat-exposed soldiers and veterans and civilians exposed to natural disasters and other traumas.
This collection of articles on REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) demonstrates the breadth and depth of the expanding clinical research on RBD, covering new findings in epidemiology, clinical presentations, electroencephalography, differential diagnosis, association with paraneoplastic disorders and response of RBD to immunotherapy, along with new findings from the urgent research front of RBD.
Addressing the broad topic of insomnia, this selection of articles showcases important knowledge gaps and articles that may have an enduring impact as the insomnia research field moves forward. Also considered are issues such as novelty, sample size, and clarity of the inferences that could be drawn from the findings presented.
This virtual issue demonstrates that narcolepsy research remains a major focus for SLEEP. The articles in this virtual issue address diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, brain imaging, behavioral and gene association studies in adult and pediatric narcolepsy. The authors of these papers have made important and novel contributions to the field of narcolepsy research.
