ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2020
Sleep Disturbances and Suicidality in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Overview of the Literature.
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- Factors impacting prazosin efficacy for nightmares and insomnia in PTSD patients - a systematic review and meta-regression analysis.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Suicide and Sleep Disorders: The Role of Insomnia, Nightmares, and Circadian Disruption.Cureus · 2026Review
- An Open-Phase Pilot Trial of an Integration of Prolonged Exposure Therapy and the Coping Long-Term With Active Suicide Program.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2026Article
- Sleep, PTSD, and suicide risk in U.S. veterans.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Article
- Silent regulators of trauma: the microRNA blueprint underlying post-traumatic stress disorder biology.Environmental epigenetics · 2026Review
- Risk Factors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Trajectories for ICU Bereaved Family Members.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2025Article
- Changing outcomes: trauma, disordered sleep, and suicide.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Article
- Cross-sectional exercise-related differences in PTSD symptoms, psychological distress, physical pain, and sleep quality in trauma-exposed adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- [Pharmacological treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder].Der Nervenarzt · 2024Review
- Emulating a randomized clinical trial with real-world data to evaluate the effect of antidepressant use in PTSD patients with high suicide risk.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Sleep Disturbances in Panic Disorder with Comorbid Complex PTSD: A Possible Relationship and Different Psychopathology?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Sleep Latency and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Retired Career Florida Firefighters: Evidence From the Advancing Epidemiology of Retired Firefighters Aging Longitudinally Cohort.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2022Article
- The Many Faces of Sleep Disorders in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An Update on Clinical Features and Treatment.Neuropsychobiology · 2022Review
- Correlation between PTSD and sleep quality in community-dwelling elderly adults in Hunan province of China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Course and predictors of posttraumatic stress-related symptoms among family members of deceased ICU patients during the first year of bereavement.Critical care (London, England) · 2021Observational
- An Emulation of Randomized Trials of Administrating Antipsychotics in PTSD Patients for Outcomes of Suicide-Related Events.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- Would we recover better sleep at the end of Covid-19? A relative improvement observed at the population level with the end of the lockdown in France.Sleep medicine · 2021Article
- Lockdown of 1.3 billion people in India during Covid-19 pandemic: A survey of its impact on mental health.Asian journal of psychiatry · 2020Article
- An Emulation of Randomized Trials of Administrating Benzodiazepines in PTSD Patients for Outcomes of Suicide-Related Events.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Letter to editor: CoVID-19 pandemic and sleep disorders-a web survey in Italy.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
A causal relationship between sleep disturbances and suicidal behavior has been previously reported. Insomnia and nightmares are considered as hallmarks of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In addition, patients with PTSD have an increased risk for suicidality. The present article gives an overview about the existing literature on the relationship between sleep disturbances and suicidality in the context of PTSD. It aims to demonstrate that diagnosing and treating sleep problems as still underestimated target symptoms may provide preventive strategies with respect to suicidality. However, heterogeneous study designs, different samples and diverse outcome parameters hinder a direct comparison of studies and a causal relationship cannot be shown. More research is necessary to clarify this complex relationship and to tackle the value of treatment of sleep disturbances for suicide prevention in PTSD.
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