Sleep and inflammation: partners in sickness and in health

MR Irwin - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of reciprocal connections between the central nervous system, sleep and the
immune system has shown that sleep enhances immune defences and that afferent signals …

Effects of acute sleep loss on physical performance: a systematic and meta-analytical review

J Craven, D McCartney, B Desbrow, S Sabapathy… - Sports Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Sleep loss may influence subsequent physical performance. Quantifying the
impact of sleep loss on physical performance is critical for individuals involved in athletic …

Sleep disturbance, sleep duration, and inflammation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies and experimental sleep deprivation

MR Irwin, R Olmstead, JE Carroll - Biological psychiatry, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Sleep disturbance is associated with inflammatory disease risk and all-cause
mortality. Here, we assess global evidence linking sleep disturbance, sleep duration, and …

Sleep and athletic performance

AM Watson - Current sports medicine reports, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Sleep is an essential component of health and well-being, with significant impacts on
physical development, emotional regulation, cognitive performance, and quality of life. Along …

Sleep health: reciprocal regulation of sleep and innate immunity

MR Irwin, MR Opp - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017 - nature.com
Sleep disturbances including insomnia independently contribute to risk of inflammatory
disorders and major depressive disorder. This review and overview provides an integrated …

Sleep and athletic performance: the effects of sleep loss on exercise performance, and physiological and cognitive responses to exercise

HHK Fullagar, S Skorski, R Duffield, D Hammes… - Sports medicine, 2015 - Springer
Although its true function remains unclear, sleep is considered critical to human
physiological and cognitive function. Equally, since sleep loss is a common occurrence prior …

Why sleep is important for health: a psychoneuroimmunology perspective

MR Irwin - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Sleep has a critical role in promoting health. Research over the past decade has
documented that sleep disturbance has a powerful influence on the risk of infectious …

Understanding sleep disturbance in athletes prior to important competitions

LE Juliff, SL Halson, JJ Peiffer - Journal of science and medicine in sport, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives Anecdotally many athletes report worse sleep in the nights prior to important
competitions. Despite sleep being acknowledged as an important factor for optimal athletic …

Acute sleep deprivation disrupts emotion, cognition, inflammation, and cortisol in young healthy adults

KI Thompson, M Chau, MS Lorenzetti… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chronic sleep deprivation has been demonstrated to diminish cognitive performance, alter
mood states, and concomitantly dysregulate inflammation and stress hormones. At present …

Relationship between duration of sleep and hypertension in adults: a meta-analysis

Y Wang, H Mei, YR Jiang, WQ Sun, YJ Song… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - jcsm.aasm.org
Objectives: Epidemiologic studies have shown that chronic short sleep may be associated
with the development of hypertension; however, the results are controversial. This meta …