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A supervised random forest classifier trained on 330 features derived from nocturnal polysomnography achieved areas under the ROC curve approaching or exceeding 0.8 for distinguishing narcolepsy type 2, idiopathic hypersomnia, and controls in a national French reference database.

Sedative-hypnotic drug effects vary with meal timing, metabolism, and drug half-life in patients with insomnia. These pharmacologic factors influence sleep onset and maintenance, particularly in patients with psychiatric comorbidities requiring concurrent medications.

Sleep midpoint variability, duration variability, and social jetlag were each associated with lower receptive vocabulary and visuospatial memory scores in 379 preschool-age children, with executive attention unaffected by any sleep regularity measure.

More than half of women aged 50–80 reported sleep problems in a cross-sectional survey analysis, with symptomatic menopausal women significantly more likely to be affected than those without menopausal symptoms.

Accelerometer-derived sleep-wake cycle metrics independently predicted incident dementia in 53,448 UK Biobank participants, with predictive improvement comparable to APOE genotype contribution when added to age-only models.

Survey responses from 5,797 Fox Insight participants suggest sleep disturbances, autonomic dysfunction, and emotional changes preceded Parkinson’s disease diagnosis by more than a decade in a substantial proportion of respondents.