Improving the Assessment of Hypersomnolence

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disorders of Excessive Somnolence

Treatments: Device: Pupillometry; Other: Auditory Evoked Potential; Behavioral: Hypersomnia Severity Index; Behavioral: Psychomotor Vigilance Task

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02884505

2015-1462

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall purpose of this study is to employ a pragmatic, multidimensional assessment of hypersomnolence that "piggybacks" on routine clinical care in patients with suspected disorders of central nervous system (CNS) hypersomnia, to determine whether these additional objective and subjective assessments are useful in the diagnosis and management of these patients.

Enrollment: 132 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-89
• Referred for polysomnography/multiple sleep latency test at Wisconsin Sleep, the sleep medicine clinic and laboratory of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Exclusion criteria

• unstable medical condition that, in the opinion of the investigators, would make it unsafe for the subject to participate

Trial design

132 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with Hypersomnolence

Description:

Patients referred for polysomnography and multiple sleep latency test

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychomotor Vigilance Task

Behavioral: Hypersomnia Severity Index

Other: Auditory Evoked Potential

Device: Pupillometry