Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for more information

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Biological Rhythms
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Campbell, S. S.
Right arrow Articles by Boulos, Z.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Campbell, S. S.
Right arrow Articles by Boulos, Z.
Right arrowPubmed/NCBI databases
Medline Plus Health Information
*Sleep Disorders
Social Bookmarking
 Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report

V. Age-Related Disturbances

Scott S. Campbell

Laboratory of Human Chronobiology, New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical College, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605

Michael Terman

Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032

Alfred J. Lewy

Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Sciences University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97201

Derk-Jan Dijk

Institute of Pharmacology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

Charmane I. Eastman

Biological Rhythms Research Laboratory, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612

Ziad Boulos

Institute for Circadian Physiology, 1 Alewife Center, Cambridge, MA 02140

Sleep maintenance insomnia is a major complaint among the elderly. As a result, an inordinate proportion of sleeping pill prescriptions go to individuals over 65 y of age. Because of the substantial problems associated with use of hypnotics in older populations, efforts have been made to develop nondrug treatments for age-related sleep disturbance, including timed exposure to bright light. Such bright light treatments are based on the assumption that age-related sleep disturbance is the consequence of alterations in the usual temporal relationship between body temperature and sleep. Although studies are limited, results strongly suggest that evening bright light exposure is beneficial in alleviating sleep maintenance insomnia in healthy elderly subjects. Less consistent, but generally positive, findings have been reported with regard to bright light treatment of sleep and behavioral disturbance in demented patients. For both groups, it is likely that homeostatic factors also contribute to sleep disturbance, and these may be less influenced by bright light interventions.

Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 10, No. 2, 151-154 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/074873049501000207


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
J Biol RhythmsHome page
T. H. Monk
Aging Human Circadian Rhythms: Conventional Wisdom May Not Always Be Right
J Biol Rhythms, August 1, 2005; 20(4): 366 - 374.
[Abstract] [PDF]


Home page
Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol.Home page
E. K. Baehr, C. I. Eastman, W. Revelle, S. H. L. Olson, L. F. Wolfe, and P. C. Zee
Circadian phase-shifting effects of nocturnal exercise in older compared with young adults
Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol, June 1, 2003; 284(6): R1542 - R1550.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Home page
Psychosom. Med.Home page
S. Ancoli-Israel
""Sleep Is Not Tangible"" or What the Hebrew Tradition Has to Say About Sleep
Psychosom Med, September 1, 2001; 63(5): 778 - 787.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Home page
Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol.Home page
D. W. Rimmer, D. B. Boivin, T. L. Shanahan, R. E. Kronauer, J. F. Duffy, and C. A. Czeisler
Dynamic resetting of the human circadian pacemaker by intermittent bright light
Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol, November 1, 2000; 279(5): R1574 - R1579.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Home page
Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol.Home page
X. Song and B. Rusak
Acute effects of light on body temperature and activity in Syrian hamsters: influence of circadian phase
Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol, May 1, 2000; 278(5): R1369 - R1380.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Home page
Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol.Home page
S. Benloucif, M. I. Masana, and M. L. Dubocovich
Responsiveness to melatonin and its receptor expression in the aging circadian clock of mice
Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol, December 1, 1997; 273(6): R1855 - R1860.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Home page
J Biol RhythmsHome page
S. S. Campbell, C. I. Eastman, M. Terman, A. J. Lewy, Z. Boulos, and D.-J. Dijk
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report: I. Chronology of Seminal Studies in Humans
J Biol Rhythms, June 1, 1995; 10(2): 105 - 109.
[Abstract] [PDF]


Home page
J Biol RhythmsHome page
M. Terman, A. J. Lewy, D.-J. Dijk, Z. Boulos, C. I. Eastman, and S. S. Campbell
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report: IV. Sleep Phase and Duration Disturbances
J Biol Rhythms, June 1, 1995; 10(2): 135 - 147.
[Abstract] [PDF]