Increased acute anxiety is a commonly reported behavioral consequence of sleep
deprivation in humans. However, rodent studies conducted so far produced inconsistent …

Intermittent hypoxia (IH) is a frequent occurrence in clinical settings. In the last decades,
evidence has emerged implicating the gas exchange alterations and sleep disruption …

This work evaluated the importance of sleep on mood and cognition after 24 h of exposure
to hypoxia. Ten males, aged 23–30 years, were placed in a normobaric chamber simulating …

BACKGROUND: Social stress leads to oxidative stress in the central nervous system,
contributing to the development of mental disorders. Loss of parvalbumin in interneurons is …

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of paradoxical sleep deprivation
(PSD) for 96h on the learning/memory processes in rats submitted to the plus-maze …

Oxidative stress is thought to be involved in the development of behavioral and
histopathological alterations in animal models of psychosis. Here we investigate the causal …

Objectives Mood disorders are common in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), though the
interactions are not well-understood. The objective of this study was to evaluate the …

The aim of this investigation was to evaluate genetic damage induced in male rats by
experimental sleep loss for short-term (24 and 96 h) and long-term (21 days) intervals, as …

Introduction The neuroendocrine background of acute sleep fragmentation in obstructive
sleep apnea and sleep fragmentation involvement in psychiatric comorbidities, common in …

Sleep architecture alterations, among which sleep fragmentation is highly prevalent,
represent risk factors for a variety of diseases, ranging from cardiovascular to brain …