ArticleScientific reports2018
The Effect of a Slowly Rocking Bed on Sleep.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Sleep induced by mechanosensory stimulation provides cognitive and health benefits in Drosophila.Sleep · 2024Article
- Nocturnal vestibular stimulation using a rocking bed improves a severe sleep disorder in a patient with mitochondrial disease.Journal of sleep research · 2024Article
- Binaural beats at 0.25 Hz shorten the latency to slow-wave sleep during daytime naps.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sleep induced by mechanosensory stimulation provides cognitive and health benefits inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Non-Pharmacological Intervention for Personalizing Sleep Quality through Gentle Rocking Motion.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Closed-Loop Auditory Stimulation to Guide Respiration: Preliminary Study to Evaluate the Effect on Time Spent in Sleep Initiation during a Nap.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Tackling Insomnia Symptoms through Vestibular Stimulation in Patients with Breast Cancer: A Perspective Paper.Cancers · 2023Article
- Peripheral blood flow estimated by laser doppler flowmetry provides additional information about sleep state beyond that provided by pulse rate variability.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Sleep, Sleepiness, and Fatigue on Board Faroese Fishing Vessels.Nature and science of sleep · 2022Article
- Effect of a Recliner Chair with Rocking Motions on Sleep Efficiency.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Sleep-Based Interventions in Alzheimer's Disease: Promising Approaches from Prevention to Treatment along the Disease Trajectory.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Gentle rocking movements during sleep in the elderly.Journal of sleep research · 2020Article
- Neuromodulation of sleep rhythms in schizophrenia: Towards the rational design of non-invasive brain stimulation.Schizophrenia research · 2020Review
- Effect of Rocking Movements on Afternoon Sleep.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Rocking movements appear to affect human sleep. Recent research suggested a facilitated transition from wake to sleep and a boosting of slow oscillations and sleep spindles due to lateral rocking movements during an afternoon nap. This study aimed at investigating the effect of vestibular stimulation on sleep onset, nocturnal sleep and its potential to increase sleep spindles and slow waves, which could influence memory performance. Polysomnography was recorded in 18 males (age: 20-28 years) during three nights: movement until sleep onset (C1), movement for 2 hours (C2), and one baseline (B) without motion. Sleep dependent changes in memory performance were assessed with a word-pair learning task. Although subjects preferred nights with vestibular stimulation, a facilitated sleep onset or a boost in slow oscillations was not observed. N2 sleep and the total number of sleep spindles increased during the 2 h with vestibular stimulation (C2) but not over the entire night. Memory performance increased over night but did not differ between conditions. The lack of an effect might be due to the already high sleep efficiency (96%) and sleep quality of our subjects during baseline. Nocturnal sleep in good sleepers might not benefit from the potential facilitating effects of vestibular stimulation.
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