Journal of Sleep And Sleep Disorder Research

Ongoing Special Issue - 2

Welcome to our special issue, 'Night terror and sleep-related hyper motor epilepsy are related conditions underlined by sleep/wake dissociation - What we know and what may suspect about their biological roots'. We invite authors to submit original papers that offer significant and novel contributions to this critical area of research. We encourage submissions that demonstrate a rigorous and innovative approach to the topic.

Special Issue By: Dr. Peter Halasz

Title: Night terror and sleep-related hyper motor epilepsy are related conditions underlined by sleep/wake dissociation - What we know and what we may suspect about their biological roots

Topics of interest include

• Fearful arousals
• Disorders of arousal
• Sleep/wake dissociation
• Salience network
• Fight-flight reaction
• Cannon-Selye stress response

The importance and need for this special issue:

Fearful hyper motor arousals are symptoms of disorders of arousal (DOA) and sleep-related hyper motor epilepsíes (SHE). However, their pathophysiologies are not completely cleared up. With neuroimaging methods, a dissociated state between sleep and wakefulness has been evidenced, as the condition of their origin. Recently several publications referred to the strong coupling between the salience network anterior cingular hub and the arousal-fueled activation part of the dissociated state; and this region plays determining role also in the seizure onset zones of the fearful hypermotor seizures of SHE. From another point of view, the salience network’s biological role seems to be related to the Canon /Selye acute stress response, and to the posttraumatic stress disorder and may provide a common biological root for the fearful arousals. That way the fearful arousal phenomenon, as a cross-road, may provide a research window the explore the inner brain mechanisms behind the fearful arousal.

Accordingly, the fearful arousal from NREM sleep nowadays is intertwined with several topics; providing the possibility to extend our view to open a broader approach to them.

These aspects could be:

• the biological significance of sleep arousals, as a defense response
• to understand more about the sleep dissociation
• the nature and executive mechanisms of fearful arousals and their pathological (epileptic ) variants
• they explore the existence of a common danger signalizing system during sleep-related the salience network and their epileptic variants
• the relations of stress with the salience network – is the stress history of human beings influence the salience network sensitivity?

Ongoing Special Issue - 1

Special Issue On - Sleep Disorders in The Younger Population with Neuro-Genetic Disorders

Special issue By - Dr. Karim Sedky

This special issue calls for original papers with important and novel contributions related to –“Neuro-Genetic Disorders”

Topics of interest include

• Craniofacial abnormalities
• Down’s syndrome
• Prader Willi
• Fragile X
• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Sleep-disordered breathing

We look for high-quality publications on - "Sleep Disorders in The Younger Population with Neuro-Genetic Disorders".

The importance and need for this special issue:

The emerging challenges and solutions provided by Modern methods are extremely interesting and are of great hope for the future. This platform brings forth outstanding research information in the specified field which helps researchers to have a perfect source specifically designed for research on "Neuro-Genetic Disorders" with much emphasis on immunity and cure

This resource not only affects the way the trending research is evolving but also creates tremendous new support for the now-working researchers to put forth their work at a worthy and specifically targeted readership for the desired proper usage of the knowledge dissipated by you.

This research area has many new challenges in the future and many challenges still remain to be resolved, and we hope that this issue will help to open new horizons for research on Neuro-Genetic Disorders.