Military Medicine
July 2, 2026
Kristi E. Pruiksma, Courtney J Bolstad, Matthew S. Brock et al.
Introduction: Insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are the most prevalent sleep disorders in military personnel. People with both sleep problems (co-morbid insomnia and sleep apnea [COMISA]) experience higher rates of medical and psychiatric comorbidities. Few studies have examined the comorbidity of nightmares among those with insomnia, OSA, or COMISA. This secondary data analysis of...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
August 30, 2024
Umaer Hanif, Alyssa Cairns, Vincent Mysliwiec et al.
14 citations
AIM: To assess self-reported parasomnias in patients with sleep disorders and explore relationships with psychiatric illness, comorbidities, subjective sleep assessments, and polysomnographic study results. METHODS: Results from intake questionnaires and polysomnographic assessments, collected from 240 sleep centers across 30 US states between 2004 and 2019, were analyzed retrospectively. Of...
Sleep Health
June 2023
Brian A Moore, Allison Brager, Jason Judkins et al.
Military personnel experience high rates of traumatic experiences. Despite this, few studies have examined the presence of nightmare disorder in military personnel. The primary aim of this study was to examine diagnoses of nightmare disorder across the 4 largest branches of the active-duty US military. Data and service branch densities used to derive the expected rates of diagnoses of nightmare...
Sleep
May 1, 2023
Zahari N. Tchopev, Brent Jacobus, Shana L. Hansen et al.
Abstract Introduction The incidence of nightmares and dreams during clinically indicated polysomnography (PSG) is rarely reported. We sought to (1) describe the incidence of nightmares and dreams during PSG, (2) PSG characteristics of nightmares and dreams, and (3) identify clinical correlates. Methods Ninety-three patients undergoing an initial clinically indicated PSG had a post-PSG and...
Sleep
May 1, 2023
Zahari N. Tchopev, Brent Jacobus, S. Hansen et al.
The incidence and clinical significance of nightmares is difficult to estimate due to varying criteria across studies. The Nightmare Disorder Index (NDI) is a validated measure to evaluate nightmare disorder. However, there is no measure to differentiate trauma-related nightmares compared to trauma associated sleep disorder (TSD), a unique REM parasomnia. The objectives of this study were to...
Sleep
January 5, 2023
Vincent Mysliwiec, Matthew S. Brock, Kristi E. Pruiksma
1 citation
The manuscript by Wong et al. in this issue [1] reports on nightmare-related findings at baseline and 1-year follow-up in a large scale, epidemiological mental health study of youth in Hong Kong from May 2019 to March 2022. Using a frequency of one or more nightmares per week based on the “having bad dreams” (translates to “nightmares” in Chinese) question from the Pittsburgh sleep quality...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
December 1, 2022
Matthew S. Brock, Panagiotis Matsangas, Jennifer L Creamer et al.
Study objectives: Trauma associated sleep disorder is a proposed parasomnia that develops after trauma with clinical features of trauma related nightmares, disruptive nocturnal behaviors, and autonomic disturbances. The purpose of this case series is to better characterize the clinical and video-polysomnographic features of patients meeting clinical criteria for this proposed parasomnia....
May 27, 2020
H. Sanchez, Vincent Mysliwiec, R. Froese et al.
Trauma associated sleep disorder (TASD) is an emerging parasomnia that develops after trauma with clinical features of trauma related nightmares (TRN), disruptive nocturnal behaviors (DNB), and autonomic disturbances. The purpose of this study is to characterize the clinical and polysomnographic (PSG) features of TASD. Clinical history and detailed video-PSG review, to include post-PSG...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
March 15, 2018
Jennifer L Creamer, Matthew S. Brock, Panagiotis Matsangas et al.
Study objectives: Sleep disturbances are common in United States military personnel. Despite their exposure to combat and trauma, little is known about nightmares in this population. The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and associated clinical and polysomnographic characteristics of nightmares in United States military personnel with sleep disturbances. Methods:...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
October 15, 2014
Vincent Mysliwiec, Brian O'Reilly, Jason Polchinski et al.
Study objectives: To characterize the clinical, polysomnographic and treatment responses of patients with disruptive nocturnal behaviors (DNB) and nightmares following traumatic experiences. Methods: A case series of four young male, active duty U.S. Army Soldiers who presented with DNB and trauma related nightmares. Patients underwent a clinical evaluation in a sleep medicine clinic, attended...