
Dr. Christian Benedict (Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Research and Pharmacology at Uppsala University, Sweden) talks about how to study sleep and its relevance for our overall health. In this first part, Christian introduces us to different definitions of sleep. Together, we try to decipher the concept of sleep quality or in other words how to judge if somebody had a good night’s sleep or not. Christian also summarizes the research around the optimal duration of sleep and discusses the relevanceof spending time in different sleep stages.
Chapters:
(0:00:12) Intro
(0:03:41) Christian Benedict’s career path
(0:13:06) What is sleep?
(0:24:09) Sleep stages & sleep quality
(0:34:06) Sleep quantity/duration
(0:42:08) Outro & Teaser to Part 2
Studies that Christian refers to:
Aversive tobacco smoke during non-REM sleep
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25392505/
Epileptic patients and sleep deprivation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29106402/
Correlations between time in different sleep stages and daytime alertness are not that good, contradictory evidence
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10678518/
Epworthsleepiness scale and sleep stages are not well correlated
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19110886/
People struggling with sleep do not necessarily differ in PSG-derived sleep stage outcomes from normally sleeping people
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29402512/
Peer feedback can impact your retrospective judgement of your last night of sleep
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24417326/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33204201/
American Society for Sleep Medicine, 7-9 hours, probably 6 and 10 hours are also fine
https://www.thensf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NSF-SleepDurationTiming_Background-1200x1312-1.jpg
Shorter or longer than these 6-10 hours is mostly associated with poor health outcomes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11825133/
Christian’s work on interindividual responses in brain health outcomes to sleep loss
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36088460/
Studies showing that people who think they cope well with sleep loss are actually not doing well
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29383809/
How to contact Christian Benedict:
Email: Christian.benedict@farmbio.uu.se
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-benedict-a25b1615a/