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Age impairments in sleep, metabolic and immune functions by Prinz, Patricia N.

“…Age-related sleep impairments are chronic and common, occurring even in the absence of diagnosable disorders. Additional loss of sleep occurs with clinical…”
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Sleep complaints cosegregate with illness in older adults: Clinical research informed by and informing epidemiological studies of sleep by Vitiello, Michael V, Moe, Karen E, Prinz, Patricia N

“…Objective: The more recent epidemiological studies of sleep complaints have shown that when factors such as physical and psychiatric illness, medication use…”
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Estrogen replacement therapy moderates the sleep disruption associated with nocturnal blood sampling by MOE, Karen E, LARSEN, Lawrence H, VITIELLO, Michael V, PRINZ, Patricia N

“…To determine whether chronic oral estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) (1) improves the sleep of older, non-symptomatic postmenopausal women; and (2) reduces the…”
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Sleep and sleep disorders in older adults by Prinz, P N

“…Complaints of sleep disturbance increase with age. Objective sleep assessments using polysomnography reveal sleep impairments (increased wakefulness and…”
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Circadian temperature and cortisol rhythms during a constant routine are phase-delayed in hypersomnic winter depression by Avery, David H., Dahl, Kitty, Savage, Margaret V., Brengelmann, George L., Larsen, Larry H., Kenny, Margaret A., Eder, Derek N., Vitiello, Michael V., Prinz, Patricia N.

“…Circadian temperature, cortisol, and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) rhythms during a constant routine were assessed in 6 female controls and 6 female…”
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Thyroid Hormones: Positive Relationships With Cognition in Healthy, Euthyroid Older Men by Prinz, Patricia N., Scanlan, James M., Vitaliano, Peter P., Moe, Karen E., Borson, Soo, Toivola, Bert, Merriam, George R., Larsen, Lawrence H., Reed, H. Lester

“…Background. Although the association of clinical hypothyroidism with cognitive deficits is well known, the cognitive effects of thyroid hormones in euthyroid…”
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Growth Hormone in Postmenopausal Women After Long-Term Oral Estrogen Replacement Therapy by Moe, Karen E., Prinz, Patricia N., Larsen, Lawrence H., Vitiello, Michael V., Reed, Shannon O., Merriam, George R.

“…Studies of estrogen effects on growth hormone (GH) and its pulsatile release in postmenopausal women have typically utilized estrogen replacement therapy (ERT)…”
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Healthy elderly women and men have different entrained circadian temperature rhythms by Moe, K E, Prinz, P N, Vitiello, M V, Marks, A L, Larsen, L H

“…Body core temperature was measured in healthy elderly men and women under entrained conditions. Female subjects showed a larger amplitude and a higher peak…”
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Higher plasma IGF-1 levels are associated with increased delta sleep in healthy older men by Prinz, P N, Moe, K E, Dulberg, E M, Larsen, L H, Vitiello, M V, Toivola, B, Merriam, G R

“…Sleep quality declines with age, with less time in deep or slow wave sleep (SWS) and reduced amplitude of the delta waves that characterize it. Age-related…”
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Changes in the sleep and waking EEGs of nondemented and demented elderly subjects by Prinz, P N, Peskind, E R, Vitaliano, P P, Raskind, M A, Eisdorfer, C, Zemcuznikov, N, Gerber, C J

“…Sleep and waking EEGs from 11 healthy nondemented elderly men and from ten inpatients for whom the diagnosis was probable senile dementia of Alzheimer's type…”
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Sleep, EEG and mental function changes in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type by Prinz, P N, Vitaliano, P P, Vitiello, M V, Bokan, J, Raskind, M, Peskind, E, Gerber, C

“…Sleep, EEG and mental function variables were studied in 44 subjects diagnosed as having probable senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and 22…”
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Sleep in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementing Disorders by Vitiello, Michael V, Poceta, J. Steven, Prinz, Patricia N

“…It is estimated that up to 10% of the elderly population have clinically significant cognitive deficits. The neuronal pathologies that underlie the dementing…”
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Sleep Disorders and Aging by Prinz, Patricia N, Vitiello, Michael V, Raskind, Murray A, Thorpy, Michael J

“…DISTURBANCES in the pattern of sleep are common in older adults. These sleep–wake disturbances can be the result of physiologic changes that are apparently…”
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Functional Decline in the Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease by Vitaliano, Peter P, Russo, Joan, Breen, Alan R, Vitiello, Michael V, Prinz, Patricia N

“…At present most reports of functional decline in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) are anecdotal, and few studies have objectively documented the course…”
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Letter matching: effects of age, Alzheimer's disease, and major depression by Kerr, B, Calogero, M, Vitiello, M V, Prinz, P N, Williams, D E, Wilkie, F

“…We compared Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Aged normal, and Young normal controls on a letter-matching task designed to…”
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Effect of alcohol on sleep and nighttime plasma growth hormone and cortisol concentrations by Prinz, P N, Roehrs, T A, Vitaliano, P P, Linnoila, M, Weitzman, E D

“…The acute and chronic effects of alcohol and alcohol withdrawal on sleep patterns and plasma GH and cortisol fluctuations occurring during sleep were studied…”
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History of chronic alcohol abuse is associated with increased nighttime hypoxemia in older men by Vitiello, M V, Prinz, P N, Personius, J P, Nuccio, M A, Ries, R K, Koerker, R M

“…The all-night blood oxygen saturations (SaO2) of 19 older abstaining male alcoholics and 19 healthy age-matched controls were recorded. The alcohol group had…”
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Sleep/wake patterns In Alzheimer's disease: relationships with cognition and function by MOE, KAREN E., VITIELLO, MICHAEL V., LARSEN, LAWRENCE H., PRINZ, PATRICIA N.

“…SUMMARY  Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common dementing disorder of aging, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of unknown etiology. Two of the…”
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Sleep complaints cosegregate with illness in older adults by Vitiello, Michael V, Moe, Karen E, Prinz, Patricia N

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Sleep complaints cosegregate with illness in older adults: Clinical research informed by and informing epidemiological studies of sleep: Special Issue on the Epidemiology of Sleep by VITIELLO, Michael V, MOE, Karen E, PRINZ, Patricia N

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