Browsing by Subject "Sleep"
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Association of perceptions of artificial light-at-night, light-emitting device usage and environmental noise
(2022)Exposure to artificial light-at-night (ALAN) is increasing globally, and there are concerns around how ALAN may impact sleep, psychological and physical health. However, there is a lack of evidence in the literature on how ... -
Associations between cognitive function, actigraphy-based and self-reported sleep in older community-dwelling adults: Findings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(Wiley, 2020)Objective: Cognitive impairment is prevalent in older ages. Associations with sleep are well established; however, ambiguity remains in which sleep characteristics contribute to this impairment. We examined cross-sectional ... -
Discrepancies in self-reported and actigraphy-based sleep duration are associated with self-reported insomnia symptoms in community-dwelling older adults
(2021)Objectives: To establish agreement between self-reported and actigraphy-based total sleep time (TST). To determine the impact of self-reported sleep problems on these measurements. Design: Cross-sectional study using data ... -
Investigation of the role of sleep and physical activity risk for chronic disease prevalence in older Irish adults
(2022)Background: Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Many of these diseases have modifiable risk factors, including physical activity and sleep, and may be preventable. This study investigated independent ... -
Parent-Infant Sleep as Co-Occupation: A Meta-Ethnography of Parent Experiences and Perspectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2024)Sleep is a key component of health and wellbeing for both adults and infants and has implications for daytime functioning and quality of life. Infants' sleep patterns in the first two years involve unpredictable, short ... -
Perceptions of light pollution and its impacts: Results of an Irish citizen science survey
(2020)Background: Light pollution is increasingly an area of concern for health and quality of life research. Somewhat surprisingly, there are relatively few descriptions of perceptions of light pollution in the literature. The ... -
Removal of Synaptic Ca2+-Permeable AMPA Receptors during Sleep.
(2011)here is accumulating evidence that sleep contributes to memory formation and learning, but the underlying cellular mechanisms are incompletely understood. To investigate the impact of sleep on excitatory synaptic transmission, ...