"Sleep" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility.
| Descriptor ID |
D012890
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.830.855 G11.561.803
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sleep" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sleep" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2013 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2014 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2015 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2016 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2017 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2018 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
| 2019 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2020 | 6 | 16 | 22 |
| 2021 | 6 | 23 | 29 |
| 2022 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| 2023 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2024 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2026 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sleep" by people in Profiles.
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Co-Design of a Sleep Improvement Intervention for Persons Living With Dementia Boarding in the Emergency Department. Acad Emerg Med. 2026 03; 33(3):e70274.
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Relationship Between Heart Rate Variability and Sleep Among Girls and Boys With Abdominal Pain-Related Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2026 Mar; 38(3):e70293.
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Leveraging clinical sleep data across multiple pediatric cohorts for insights into neurodevelopment: the Retrospective Analysis of Sleep in Pediatric (RASP) cohorts study. Sleep. 2026 Feb 10; 49(2).
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Performance of an automated sleep scoring approach for actigraphy data in children and adolescents. Sleep. 2026 Feb 10; 49(2).
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Suvorexant for alcohol use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder: study protocol for a phase II randomized clinical trial. Trials. 2026 Feb 03; 27(1).
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Morning Larks and Night Owls: Considering Chronotype in Evaluation of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2026 Feb 01; 23(2):261-271.
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Genome-wide gene-sleep interaction study identifies novel lipid loci in 732,564 participants. Atherosclerosis. 2026 Jan; 412:120603.
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The Association Between Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Sleep with Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Cirrhosis. Dig Dis Sci. 2026 Apr; 71(4):1522-1529.
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Is bedtime use of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) a sleep aid or disruptor? Examining its daily effects and individual differences. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2025 Oct; 33(5):513-522.
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Optimizing transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation parameters for sleep and autonomic function in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder with or without mild traumatic brain injury. Sleep. 2025 Aug 14; 48(8).