Improvement of the night sleep quality by electrocutaneous subthreshold stimulation synchronized with the slow wave sleep

Dokl Biol Sci. 2017 May;474(1):132-134. doi: 10.1134/S0012496617030139. Epub 2017 Jul 13.

Abstract

Changes in sleep characteristics were studied under the non-wake-up stimulation with current pulses of less than 1 μA on average, applied to the palmar surface skin receptors during Δ-sleep. A significant increase in duration of the first and second cycles of deep sleep has been found, as well as a shorter latent period before the Δ-sleep onset and a longer time of the rapid sleep (REM phase). The sleep structure improvement was accompanied by the reduced reactive anxiety and depression and an increase in subjective physical efficiency.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anxiety / physiopathology
  • Depression / physiopathology
  • Electroencephalography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Sleep / physiology*
  • Sleep, REM / physiology*