Observational studyDepression and anxiety2025
PTSD Symptom Severity Associated With Sleep Disturbances in Military Personnel: Evidence From a Prospective Controlled Study With Ecological Recordings.
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- Post-traumatic stress disorder: pathogenesis, epidemiological characteristics, animal models, and potential therapeutic strategies.Military Medical Research · 2026Review
- Intraindividual sleep variability in young adult women with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and hazardous alcohol use after sexual assault.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Veteran status as an underappreciated confound in narcolepsy mortality.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Article
- Physiological markers of Trauma-related nightmares among military personnel suffering from PTSD: A multicenter home-recording study.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Article
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Abstract
Sleep disturbances, including insomnia and trauma-related nightmares (TRNs), are the core symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military personnel. Furthermore these nocturnal manifestations are directly related to the persistence of daytime PTSD symptoms and are known to exacerbate comorbid conditions such as depression, suicidality, and daytime impairments. This prospective study examined the variability of PTSD-related sleep disruptions and its relationship to symptom severity using ecological recordings over several nights. One hundred thirty PTSD-diagnosed service members and 65 healthy military controls recorded sleep data at home for five nights using a polysomnographic headband to measure total sleep time (TST), sleep onset latency (SOL), wake after sleep onset (WASO), sleep efficiency index (SEI), and sleep stages. PTSD severity and comorbid symptoms were assessed by clinical evaluations. Compared to controls, PTSD participants had higher SOL and WASO (+14.1 min and +9.1 min,
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