Please feel free forward to your colleagues and share the news of our journal | Special Issue: Sleep and Sleep Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury Guest Editor: David L. Ripley | This special issue covers sleep disorders following traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is quite common for brain injury to disrupt the pattern of release of neurotransmitters responsible for normal sleep–wake cycle, resulting in insomnia and rapid sleep–wake cycles. Injury to deeper structures in the brain and brainstem that are part of the reticular activating system may result in disorders of consciousness or sleep disorders. Concomitant injuries, such as fractures, may also result in pain or positioning problems that may complicate a patient’s ability to get adequate sleep. Additionally, many of the medications that are administered soon after brain injury may alter sleep function. All of these issues make appropriate treatment of sleep issues extremely challenging. This issue will give readers a greater understanding of the interplay of sleep and TBI. This knowledge has the potential to improve both diagnosis as well as treatment of this class of post-TBI impairment. All content is outlined below, which includes a selection of openly available articles. Further details about this special issue are featured in the press release and the editorial. | Editors’ Choice The following featured articles from this thematic issue area are freely available online: Sleep and sleep disorders following traumatic brain injury: An introduction – Editorial, Openly Available Ripley, David L. Pharmacological management of sleep after traumatic brain injury – Research Article, Openly Available Driver, Sangeeta | Stork, Ryan Nonpharmacological management of sleep disturbances after traumatic brain injury – Research Article, Openly Available Thomas, Alphonsa | Greenwald, Brian D. | Sleep disorders in traumatic brain injury Wolfe, Lisa F. | Sahni, Ashima S. | Attarian, Hrayr Assessment of sleep after traumatic brain injury (TBI) Sampathkumar, Haresh | DiTommaso, Craig | Holcomb, Erin | Tallavajhula, Sudha Objective measures of sleep and wakefulness in patients with moderate to severe brain injury on an inpatient rehabilitation unit. Pearls and pitfalls of actigraph monitoring Makley, Michael J. | Monden, Kimberley R. | Philippus, Angela | Tarwater, Patrick M. | Newman, Jody | Biggs, Jennifer | Spier, Eric | Weintraub, Alan Sleep after TBI: How the TBI Model Systems have advanced the field Bell, Kathleen R. | Bushnik, Tamara | Dams-O’Connor, Kristen | Goldin, Yelena | Hoffman, Jeanne M. | Lequerica, Anthony H. | Nakase-Richardson, Risa | Zumsteg, Jennifer M. Sleep disturbance and cognition in people with TBI Larson, Eric B. Sleep and fatigue after TBI Cronin, Heather | O’Loughlin, Emer Association of sleep with neurobehavioral impairments during inpatient rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury Maneyapanda, Mithra B. | Stork, Ryan | Ingraham, Benjamin | Lonini, Luca | Jayaraman, Arun | Shawen, Nicholas | Ripley, David The interplay between neuroendocrine and sleep alterations following traumatic brain injury Howell, Stefanie | Griesbach, Grace S. | Most Read NRE Articles for November 2018 | Listing articles published only in 2017 and 2018 so you can read the most popular recent content Dance therapy improves motor and cognitive functions in patients with Parkinson’s disease (Research Article in Vol.40, Iss.1, 2017) – Openly Available de Natale, Edoardo Rosario | Paulus, Kai Stephan | Aiello, Elena | Sanna, Battistina | Manca, Andrea | Sotgiu, Giovanni | Leali, Paolo Tranquilli | Deriu, Franca The use of robots in stroke rehabilitation: A narrative review (Review Article in Vol.43, Iss.1, 2018) – Openly Available Weber, Lynne M. | Stein, Joel A systematic review of the effect of physical exercise on cognition in stroke and traumatic brain injury patients (Review Article in Vol.40, Iss.1, 2017) – Openly Available Vanderbeken, Ines | Kerckhofs, Eric Concentration Endurance Test (d2): Normative data for Spanish-speaking pediatric populatio (Research Article in Vol.41, Iss.3, 2017) – Openly Available Rivera, D. | Salinas, C. | Ramos-Usuga, D. | Delgado-Mejía, I.D. | Vasallo Key, Y. | Hernández Agurcia, G.P. | Valencia Vásquez, J. | García-Guerrero, C.E. | García de la Cadena, C. | Rabago Barajas, B.V. | Romero-García, I. | Campos Varillas, A.I. | Sánchez-SanSegundo, M. | Galvao-Carmona, A. | Lara, L. | Granja Gilbert, E.J. | Martín-Lobo, P. | Velázquez-Cardoso, J. | Caracuel, A. | Arango-Lasprilla, J.C. Stroop Color-Word Interference Test: Normative data for Spanish-speaking pediatric population (Review Article in Vol.41, Iss.3, 2017) – Open Available Rivera, D. | Morlett-Paredes, A. | Peñalver Guia, A.I. | Irías Escher, M.J. | Soto-Añari, M. | Aguayo Arelis, A. | Rute-Pérez, S. | Rodríguez-Lorenzana, A. | Rodríguez-Agudelo, Y. | Albaladejo-Blázquez, N. | García de la Cadena, C. | Ibáñez-Alfonso, J.A. | Rodriguez-Irizarry, W. | García-Guerrero, C.E. | Delgado-Mejía, I.D. | Padilla-López, A. | Vergara-Moragues, E. | Barrios Nevado, M.D. | Saracostti Schwartzman, M. | Arango-Lasprilla, J.C. | Sign Ups & Submissions Help Spread the News of NRE! | If you know of any colleagues or fellow researchers who are not yet signed up to receive the newsletter, we invite you to share this mailing with them. They can click on the "sign up for alerts" button below. Members of your research community can contribute original research articles to the journal. 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