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  • Chapter 14 - Menstrual-related hypersomnia

  • from Section 2 - Sleep Disorders and Excessive Sleepiness
  • Edited by Michael J. Thorpy, Michel Billiard
  • Book:
    Sleepiness
    Published online:
    04 February 2011
    Print publication:
    27 January 2011, pp 147-153

  • Summary

    This chapter reviews the psychometric properties, validation, and strengths and weaknesses of the most common measurement tools used for the subjective evaluation of sleepiness. Subjective measures of sleepiness described in the chapter include visual analogue scales (VAS), Stanford sleepiness scale (SSS), Karolinska sleepiness scale (KSS), Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) pediatric sleep questionnaire, sleepiness subscale (PSQ-SS) and pediatric daytime sleepiness scale (PDSS). Children present with a variety of sleep disorders associated with excessive sleepiness. Subjective sleepiness is critical as it is often the initial symptom of underlying sleep pathology, and a major presenting complaint that clinicians must understand and address. More work is needed on potential cultural and racial differences in subjective sleepiness and in relation to specific types of measurement. It has been shown that subjective sleepiness is accompanied by EEG changes including selective slowing of specific frequency bands.

  • Time-of-day variations in different measures of sleepiness (MSLT, pupillography, and SSS) and their interrelations

  • HEIDI DANKER-HOPFE, SUSANNE KRAEMER, HANS DORN, ANDREA SCHMIDT, INGRID EHLERT, WERNER M. HERRMANN
  • Journal:
    Psychophysiology / Volume 38 / Issue 5 / September 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 September 2001, pp. 828-835
    Print publication:
    September 2001

  • The aim of the present study is to analyze how well physiological measures of sleepiness derived from pupillography and the Multiple Sleep Latency Test correlate with a subjective measure, the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) score. The results are based on data from 12 healthy participants, who underwent these tests every 2 hr from 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. Sleep latencies were correlated with four different variables derived from pupillography and the SSS score. The results indicate that the physiologically based variables correspond very well. This is reflected by similar patterns of time-of-day variations, a good agreement at the group level, and correlations at the individual level, whereas the SSS shows a quite different pattern of variation. The two physiological measures of sleepiness seem to reflect the same aspect of the level of tonic central nervous activation, which is not correlated with the subjective feeling of sleepiness.