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The aim of this article was the translation into Portuguese of the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISC), a tool for screening sleep disorders in infants and toddlers (0-3 years). After obtaining the consent from the a...

There is a clear association between primary headaches and sleep disorders, especially when these headaches occur at night or upon waking. The primary headaches most commonly related to sleep are: migraine, cluster heada...

Objectives: Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) still remains unrecognized by the medical community, health-care providers and patients despite its high prevalence and association with other major health conditions. The aim...

Economic demand has modified the temporal organization of work and established the system of shift work. The inability of the individual worker to maintain an adequate quantity and quality of sleep after a day of shift w...

There are emerging links between disturbed sleep and mental illness. These associations may have particular relevance for military populations which are often faced with extremely stressful situations and profound sleep ...

Together with the environment, genetic factors can significantly influence sleep and its architecture. Monozygotic twins have greater similarity in terms of latency and duration of sleep cycles than dizygotic twins, in a...

Objective: Paradoxical sleep deprivation increases grooming behaviors in rats. Discordant data on the change promoted by such deprivation on the experimentally defined anxiety levels have made difficult to assess if the ...

Objectives: An association, responsible for affecting circadian rhythms and sleep homeostasis, between PER3 gene variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) and sleep times has been described in humans. The aim of this study wa...

Objectives: The Night Eating questionnaire (NEQ) is regarded as an important tool for the assessment of the severity of the Night Eating Syndrome. The objective of this study was to validate a new Brazilian Portuguese ve...

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to analyze the relationship between job satisfaction and work ability and to identify factors associated with job dissatisfaction. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of...