ReviewSleep medicine reviews2017
Waking up is the hardest thing I do all day: Sleep inertia and sleep drunkenness.
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97 citing papers in PubMed, 213 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness and Safety of Low-Sodium Oxybate in Participants with Idiopathic Hypersomnia: Primary Results from the DUET Study.CNS drugs · 2026Trial
- Adolescent sleep restriction, macronutrient consumption, and self-reported hunger: A randomized clinical trial.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026Trial
- A minimal clinically important difference for the sleep inertia visual analog scale in idiopathic hypersomnia.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Trial
- Variations in Sleep, Fatigue, and Difficulty with Concentration Among Emergency Medical Services Clinicians During Shifts of Different Durations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Trial
- Modafinil Versus Amphetamine-Dextroamphetamine For Idiopathic Hypersomnia and Narcolepsy Type 2: A Randomized, Blinded, Non-inferiority Trial.CNS drugs · 2024Trial
- Rise and shine: The use of polychromatic short-wavelength-enriched light to mitigate sleep inertia at night following awakening from slow-wave sleep.Journal of sleep research · 2022Trial
- Anchoring and Sleep Inertia.Experimental psychology · 2022Trial
- Diagnostic Value of Psychomotor Vigilance Task for Severe Sleep Inertia in Idiopathic Hypersomnia Versus Other Sleep Disorders Without Sleep Inertia.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Boundary-Dependent Sleep-Wake Dysregulation in Idiopathic Hypersomnia.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2026Article
- Protecting episodic memory after sleep loss: Similar benefits of exercise and naps via distinct neural contributions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- iSPHYNCS: Unsupervised Clustering in Questionnaires and Metadata Reveals Distinct Subtypes in the Narcolepsy Borderland.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Association between sleep inertia and cognitive performance among older adults in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Article
- One Step Further: Integrating Evidence-Based Guidelines into Practice to Address Environmental Challenges at the Men's 2026 FIFA World Cup.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- Daily associations of subjective and objective sleep parameters with restorative sleep and morning sleepiness in Japanese working adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Thalamic dynamics orchestrate the recovery of tonic alertness during nocturnal sleep inertia.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Clinical and polysomnographic changes in idiopathic hypersomnia ten years after the diagnosis.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive stimulation and physiological dynamization on sleep inertia.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Idiopathic hypersomnia is a 24-hour disorder.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Review
- Polysomnographic Evidence of Enhanced Sleep Quality with Adaptive Thermal Regulation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Sleep Condition Indicator and the Idiopathic Hypersomnia Severity Scale: Measurement Invariance and an Exploratory Network Approach in a French Sample of University Students.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
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Abstract
The transition from sleep to wake is marked by sleep inertia, a distinct state that is measurably different from wakefulness and manifests as performance impairments and sleepiness. Although the precise substrate of sleep inertia is unknown, electroencephalographic, evoked potential, and neuroimaging studies suggest the persistence of some features of sleep beyond the point of awakening. Forced desynchrony studies have demonstrated that sleep inertia impacts cognition differently than do homeostatic and circadian drives and that sleep inertia is most intense during awakenings from the biological night. Recovery sleep after sleep deprivation also amplifies sleep inertia, although the effects of deep sleep vary based on task and timing. In patients with hypersomnolence disorders, especially but not exclusively idiopathic hypersomnia, a more pronounced period of confusion and sleepiness upon awakening, known as "sleep drunkenness", is common and problematic. Optimal treatment of sleep drunkenness is unknown, although several medications have been used with benefit in small case series. Difficulty with awakening is also commonly endorsed by individuals with mood disorders, disproportionately to the general population. This may represent an important treatment target, but evidence-based treatment guidance is not yet available.
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