Trial reportJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2010
The effect of vestibular stimulation in a four-hour sleep phase advance model of transient insomnia.
Trial report in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of Closed-Loop Feedback Techniques in Sleep Studies-Related Issues and Future Directions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Pooled it
- Efficacy of electrical vestibular stimulation (VeNS) on adults with insomnia: A double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2025Trial
- A possible method to predict response to non-pharmacological insomnia therapy.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2011Trial
- Interplay Between Vestibular Dysfunction and Sleep Disorders.Current medical science · 2025Review
- Effect of Vestibular Rehabilitation on Sleep Quality and Depression in the Elderly With Chronic Dizziness: A Prospective Study.Journal of audiology & otology · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of multi-modal home-based videoconference interventions on sleep in older adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Somnomat: a novel actuated bed to investigate the effect of vestibular stimulation.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2016Article
- Vestibular Stimulation for Stress Management in Students.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2016Article
- Provocative motion causes fall in brain temperature and affects sleep in rats.Experimental brain research · 2014Article
- Enhancement of sleep slow waves: underlying mechanisms and practical consequences.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2014Article
- Individuals with peripheral vestibulopathy and poor quality of sleep are at a higher risk for falls.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngologyArticle
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
STUDY
objectivesTo determine if vestibular stimulation is an effective therapy for transient insomnia in a sleep phase advance model.
designMulti-site, double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, sham-controlled trial
settingThis study was carried out at 6 sites in the United States.
participants198 healthy normal sleepers.
interventionsBilateral electrical stimulation of the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear via electrodes on the skin of the mastoid process at a frequency of 0.5 Hz vs. sham stimulation.
resultsWe did not find a significant effect of treatment on our primary outcome variable, latency to persistent sleep onset (LPS). However, our planned analysis identified that the mean latency to sleep onset on the multiple sleep latency test was a significant covariate. This led us to carry out post hoc analyses, which showed a significant effect of treatment on LPS in those subjects with a mean MSLT sleep onset latency > or = 14 minutes.
conclusionsVestibular stimulation did not have a therapeutic effect in a model of transient insomnia in the overall population studied. However, this study provides preliminary evidence that vestibular stimulation may shorten sleep onset latency compared with sham therapy in the subset of subjects with mean MSLT sleep onset latency > or = 14 minutes.
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