Sleep

"Sleep" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility.

Descriptor ID	D012890
MeSH Number(s)	F02.830.855 G11.561.803
Concept/Terms	Sleep Sleep Sleep, Slow-Wave Sleep, Slow-Wave Sleep, Slow Wave Slow-Wave Sleep

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Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Psychological Phenomena [F02]
Psychophysiology [F02.830]
Sleep [F02.830.855]
Biological Sciences [G]
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena [G11]
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena [G11.561]
Sleep [G11.561.803]

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publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sleep" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sleep" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 180 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2021 and 2022

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	0	1
2002	1	2	3
2003	2	0	2
2004	4	1	5
2005	1	1	2
2006	2	0	2
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	2	2	4
2010	1	1	2
2011	3	1	4
2012	4	1	5
2013	6	2	8
2014	3	5	8
2015	6	2	8
2016	10	3	13
2017	7	1	8
2018	5	2	7
2019	6	3	9
2020	3	11	14
2021	6	15	21
2022	4	17	21
2023	1	13	14
2024	7	4	11
2025	5	1	6

Below are the most recent publications written about "Sleep" by people in Profiles.

Gaffey AE, Mattocks KM, Yaggi HK, Marteeny V, Walker L, Brandt CA, Haskell SG, Bastian LA, Burg MM. "Sleep Is Not Getting the Attention It Deserves": A Qualitative Study of Patient and Provider Views on Sleep Management in the Veterans Health Administration. Med Care. 2025 Jul 01; 63(7):472-478.

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Gaudette LM, Swift AM, Horger MN, Holmes JF, Spencer RMC. Pediatric sleep electrophysiology: Using polysomnography in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2025 Jun; 73:101562.

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Ding H, Madan S, Searls E, McNulty M, Low S, Li Z, Ho K, Rahman S, Igwe A, Popp Z, Hwang PH, De Anda-Duran I, Kolachalama VB, Mez J, Alosco ML, Thomas RJ, Au R, Lin H. Exploring nightly variability and clinical influences on sleep measures: insights from a digital brain health platform. Sleep Med. 2025 07; 131:106532.

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Freeman JR, Whitcomb BW, Bertone-Johnson ER, O'Brien LM, Dunietz GL, Purdue-Smithe AC, Kim K, Silver RM, Schisterman EF, Mumford SL. Sleep characteristics in association with risk of sporadic anovulation among eumenorrheic women. Chronobiol Int. 2025 Apr; 42(4):500-510.

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St Laurent CW, Lokhandwala S, Allard T, Ji A, Paluch A, Riggins T, Spencer RMC. Relations between 24-h movement behaviors, declarative memory, and hippocampal volume in early childhood. Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 17; 15(1):9205.

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Williams BR, Gamble MC, Singh N, Bryant CD, Logan BA, Logan RW. Sleep and circadian rhythm activity alterations during adolescence in a mouse model of neonatal fentanyl withdrawal syndrome. Neuroscience. 2025 Mar 17; 569:85-91.

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Hauck FR, Moon RY, Kerr SM, Corwin MJ, Heeren T, Colson E, Parker MG, Kellams A. Mothers Falling Asleep During Infant Feeding. Pediatrics. 2024 Dec 01; 154(6).

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Wang S, Hicks MH, Barrett E, Martsenkovskyi D, Holovanova I, Marchak O, Ishchenko L, Fiedler N, Haque U. Sleep Duration, Insomnia, and Associated Factors Among Ukrainians 1 Year After Russia's Full-Scale Invasion. Psychosom Med. 2024 Oct 01; 86(8):690-699.

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Song M, McHill AW, Dieckmann NF, Musil CM, Hayman LL. Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Sleep Duration in US Children: Analysis of 2020-2021 National Survey of Children's Health. J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2025 Jul-Aug 01; 40(4):364-372.

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Borin G, Sato SD, Spencer RMC, Choi JT. Sleep benefits perceptual but not movement-based learning of locomotor sequences. Sci Rep. 2024 07 09; 14(1):15868.

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