Proposed sleep debate topics

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  • Sleep walking
  • Transvenous neurostimulation for sleep apnea
  • RLS is a disease/manifestation of psychiatric disorder
  • Has chronobiology any influence on sleep?

Headache:

  • Has chronobiology any influence on sleep? Y/N
  • HLH In cooperation with Alan Rapoport

Dementia: 

  • Does chronic insomnia causes Alzheimers disease? Y/N
  • Does Alzheimer causes sleep changes
  • In cooperation with Alzheimer research group??

Epilepsy:

  • Sleep and drowsiness are causing epileptic fits,
  • NFLE looks like parasomnia but are epilepsy, or
  • discussion is epilepsy causing all parasomnia??

Immunology:

  • If you do not sleep enough the immune system does not work well, resulting in more infectious disease and cancer Y/N

Parkinsons disease:

  • REM sleep behavior disorder should be considerred as a precurser and marker for PD, LBD and MSA, the alfa synnucleaopathies. Should we adopt video polysomnography as a standard test Y/N

Rehabilitation:

  • Can better sleep increase the effect of rehabilitation Y/N

Stroke:

  • Is there any relationship between sleep and stroke Y/N. OSAS causes AFIB which causes embolic stroke, and in stroke most patients develop OSAS due to paralysis of throat musculature etc
  • Should we have another OSAS debate in separate morning or afternoon?