The overall objective of this study is to identify the best approach for assessing the recovery function of sleep in neurodegenerative diseases associated with abnormal protein aggregation with regard to the conception of future intervention studies. To this end, the investigators will follow an exploratory approach in a preferably broad data set collected in patients with neurodegenerative diseases associated with abnormal protein aggregation and in healthy humans.
First, the investigators want to assess the relationship between sleep parameters (e.g. sleep intensity) and behavioral/cognitive performance and subjective measures (e.g. sleep quality, mood, and sleepiness) in patients with neurodegenerative disorders associated with abnormal protein aggregation. Healthy subjects will be assessed for procedure validation and reference purposes. Second, the investigators want to probe whether associations can be influenced by modulation of sleep parameters by means of auditory stimulation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
200
Auditory stimulation during sleep
University Hospital Zurich, Neurology department
Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
RECRUITINGElectrophysiological markers of brain activity during sleep as measured with EEG
e.g. slow wave activity (SWA)
Time frame: measured during 4 nights
Performance change in behavioral/cognitive tasks
e.g. reaction time
Time frame: measured before and after 4 nights
Change in outcomes of subjective measures
e.g. sleepiness (scale from 1 to 10)
Time frame: measured before and after 4 nights
Outcomes of other physiological measures during sleep
e.g. muscle activity (EMG)
Time frame: measured during 4 nights
Outcomes of other physiological measures during behavioral tasks
e.g. pupil dilation
Time frame: measured before and after 4 nights
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