Torbjorn Akerstedt
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Recent Articles
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De Rosa O, DOnofrio P, Conte F, De Luca P, Schiavone C, Lustro A, et al.
Sleep Med
. 2025 Mar;
129:274-282.
PMID: 40069981
Introduction: The ever-growing diffusion of video games (VG) prompts to investigate their effects on health. While different studies exist on the topic, their results are difficult to interpret, probably because...
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Akerstedt T
Sleep Adv
. 2024 Nov;
5(1):zpae076.
PMID: 39525614
This is a personal review of a research life focused on sleep in everyday life. It finds that irregular work hours shorten sleep duration and increase sleepiness, both subjectively and...
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Custer R, Lynch K, Barisano G, Herting M, Akerstedt T, Nilsonne G, et al.
bioRxiv
. 2024 Nov;
PMID: 39484474
Increased waste clearance in the brain is thought to occur most readily during late-stage sleep (stage N3). Sleep deprivation disrupts time spent in deeper sleep stages, fragmenting the clearance process....
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Akerstedt T, Eriksson J, Freyland S, Widman L, Magnusson Hanson L, Miley-Akerstedt A
Healthcare (Basel)
. 2024 Jul;
12(14).
PMID: 39057537
Background: Sickness absence has been linked to short and long, as well as poor, sleep in a few studies. Such studies have started from a baseline measurement and followed up...
5.
Xiong Y, Tvedt J, Akerstedt T, Cadar D, Wang H
Psychiatry Res
. 2024 Feb;
333:115760.
PMID: 38301285
The nature of the relationship between sleep problems and dementia remains unclear. This study investigated the relationship between sleep measures and dementia in older adults (≥ 65) using data from...
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Schwarz J, Freidle M, van Leeuwen W, Akerstedt T, Kecklund G
Front Psychol
. 2023 Dec;
14:1264881.
PMID: 38078262
Laboratory based sleep deprivation studies demonstrate that lack of sleep impairs well-being and performance ability, but suggest that these effects are mitigated in older adults. Yet, much less is known...
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DOnofrio P, Jernelov S, Rosen A, Blom K, Kaldo V, Schwarz J, et al.
Brain Sci
. 2023 Oct;
13(10).
PMID: 37891794
Background: Reports of poor sleep are widespread, but their link with objective sleep (polysomnography-PSG) is weak in cross-sectional studies. In contrast, the purpose of this study was to investigate the...
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Tan X, Akerstedt T, Trolle Lagerros Y, Akerstedt A, Bellocco R, Adami H, et al.
Age Ageing
. 2023 Sep;
52(9).
PMID: 37676841
Objective: Given the importance of sleep in maintaining neurocognitive health, both sleep duration and quality might be component causes of dementia. However, the possible role of insomnia symptoms as risk...
9.
Akerstedt T, Schwarz J, Theorell-Haglow J, Lindberg E
Sleep Med
. 2023 Jul;
109:219-225.
PMID: 37478658
Survey studies indicate that reports of disturbed sleep are prevalent and may be prospectively linked to several major diseases. However, it is not clear what self-reported disturbed sleep represents, since...
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Akerstedt T, Schwarz J, Lindberg E, Theorell-Haglow J
Sleep Adv
. 2023 May;
3(1):zpac028.
PMID: 37193394
The relationship between sleep duration and sleepiness has seen much research, but no data are available on the association between polysomnographically (PSG) determined total sleep time (TST) (or other PSG...