Trial reportScientific reports2020
Periocular skin warming promotes body heat loss and sleep onset: a randomized placebo-controlled study.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Thermoregulation in Sleep Disorders-Comprehensive Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Physical factor therapies for insomnia: a narrative review of mechanisms, clinical evidence, and phenotype-guided applications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Investigation of Choroidal Circulation Hemodynamics Using Laser Speckle Flowgraphy After Periocular Skin Warming.Cureus · 2024Article
- Novel perspective of 'poor sleep' in public health: a narrative review.BMJ public health · 2024Review
- Predicting Sleep Quality through Biofeedback: A Machine Learning Approach Using Heart Rate Variability and Skin Temperature.Clocks & sleep · 2024Article
- Enhanced conductive body heat loss during sleep increases slow-wave sleep and calms the heart.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Changes in sleep profile on exposure to sodium chloride and artificially carbonated springs: a pilot study.Journal of physical therapy science · 2023Article
- Periocular Skin Warming Promotes Sleep Onset Through Heat Dissipation From Distal Skin in Patients With Insomnia Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Periocular skin warming was reported to have favorable effects on subjective and objective sleep quality. We hypothesized that enhancing body heat loss by periocular skin warming would reduce sleep onset and improve sleep quality. Eighteen healthy volunteers were asked to maintain wakefulness with their eyes closed for 60 min after applying either a warming or sham eye mask, followed by a 60-min sleep period. Compared to the sham, periocular warming increased the distal skin temperature and distal-proximal skin temperature gradient only during the 30-min thermal manipulation period. In the subsequent sleep period, periocular warming facilitated sleep onset, increased stage 2 sleep and electroencephalographic delta activity during the first half of the sleep period relative to the sham. These results suggest that periocular skin warming may accelerate and deepen sleep by enhancing physiological heat loss via the distal skin, mimicking physiological conditions preceding habitual sleep.
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