Current Issue February 2012, Vol. 13, No. 2

Advancing sleep medicine worldwide

WASM is an international organization comprised of healthcare professionals primarily active in the field of sleep medicine. The goal of the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) is to advance knowledge about sleep and sleep disorders among health care personnel and among the public worldwide. WASM was founded to improve sleep health worldwide and to encourage prevention and treatment of sleep disorders.

We at the WASM are working toward increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of sleep and the adverse consequences resulting from lack of sleep, due either to enforced lifestyle or to sleep disorders themselves. The WASM aims to act as a link between various sleep associations and cultures, i.e., as an international nexus among sleep clinicians and researchers in the advancement of worldwide sleep health. A special goal of the Association is to foster dissemination of expertise in sleep medicine everywhere in the world.

• The official World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) standards for recording and scoring periodic leg movements in sleep (PLMS) and wakefulness (PLMW) developed in collaboration with a task force from the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG)
  March 2006 (Vol. 7 | No. 2 | Pages 175-183)

  Marco Zucconi, Raffaele Ferri, Richard Allen, Paul Christian Baier, Oliviero Bruni, Sudhansu Chokroverty, Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Stephany Fulda, Diego Garcia-Borreguero, Wayne A. Hening, Max Hirshkowitz, Birgit Högl, Magdolna Hornyak, Martin King, Pasquale Montagna, Liborio Parrino, Giuseppe Plazzi, Mario G. Terzano

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• Snoring, penile erection and loss of reflexive consciousness during REM sleep behavior disorder
  October 2010 (Vol. 11 | No. 9 | Pages 953-955)

  Delphine Oudiette, Laurène Leclair-Visonneau, Isabelle Arnulf

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• Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
  January 2011 (Vol. 12 | No. 1 | Pages 70-75)

  Alessandra Naimaier Bertolazi, Simone Chaves Fagondes, Leonardo Santos Hoff, Eduardo Giacomolli Dartora, Ilsis Cristine da Silva Miozzo, Maria Emília Ferreira de Barba, Sérgio Saldanha Menna Barreto

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• Yawning cannot cause significant temperature decreases in humans
  January 2011 (Vol. 12 | No. 1 | Page 102)

  Hannu Elo

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• Is obstructive sleep apnea a problem in Parkinson’s disease?
  March 2010 (Vol. 11 | No. 3 | Pages 247-252)

  Valérie Cochen De Cock, Maher Abouda, Smaranda Leu, Delphine Oudiette, Emmanuel Roze, Marie Vidailhet, Thomas Similowski, Isabelle Arnulf

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