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Insomnia is a prevalent sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling asleep, frequent awakenings during the night, and waking up too early without being able to return to sleep. People with insomnia often experience these disruptions at least three nights a week for at least one month. Chronic insomnia, which lasts for at least three months, can lead to increased anxiety, which in turn can worsen sleep difficulties, creating a cycle of sleeplessness and stress.
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    • Neuroscience
    • Sleep Medicine
    • Biomedical Engineering

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    • Insomnia is a prevalent mental health condition marked by brain hyperarousal and disrupted sleep stage transitions.
    • Current pharmacological treatments for insomnia present challenges with adverse effects and inconsistent effectiveness.
    • Existing non-invasive brain stimulation techniques lack personalized, dynamic, and precisely targeted capabilities for sleep disorders.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a novel online closed-loop individualized frequency transcranial alternating current stimulation (IF-tACS) protocol for insomnia.
    • To investigate the efficacy of IF-tACS in synchronizing stimulation parameters with individual sleep states and neural oscillations.
    • To assess the impact of IF-tACS on sleep latency, sleep stage transitions, cortical connectivity, and sleep spindle characteristics in individuals with insomnia.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed an IF-tACS protocol that dynamically adjusts stimulation sites and parameters based on real-time sleep states.
    • Synchronized stimulation frequency with predominant individual neural oscillation frequencies: alpha (Wake), theta (N1), and delta (N2).
    • Evaluated the IF-tACS protocol in a cohort of 30 subjects diagnosed with insomnia.

    Main Results:

    • IF-tACS demonstrated preliminary improvements in insomnia symptoms, significantly reducing deep sleep latency by an average of 8.6 minutes.
    • The stimulation successfully restored disrupted cortical connectivity observed at sleep onset.
    • IF-tACS decreased sleep stage transition instability (N3 to N1) by approximately 46.4% and modulated sleep spindle density toward healthier levels.

    Conclusions:

    • Personalized, state-dependent, oscillation-synchronized transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) effectively normalizes sleep patterns in individuals with insomnia.
    • IF-tACS shows potential for enhancing sleep-promoting neural networks, increasing inhibitory control, and stabilizing sleep homeostasis.
    • This novel IF-tACS approach offers a promising non-invasive therapeutic strategy for managing insomnia by targeting specific neural dynamics during sleep.