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Healthy sleep and sleep disorders.
Key points
- Sleep disorders are changes in sleeping patterns or habits.
- Psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals are often called on to treat sleep disorders.
- Signs and symptoms of sleep disorders include excessive daytime sleepiness, irregular breathing or increased movement during sleep, difficulty sleeping, and abnormal sleep behaviors.
- Although some sleep disorders bear little relation to psychiatric disorders or treatment, connections between many other sleep disturbances and psychiatric disorders have been well established.
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Main topics
Childhood Sleep Disorders
In this section, I review some of the common sleep disorders of childhood and how they affect families.
Common Sleep Disorders
The four most common sleep disorders are insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea (sleep-disordered breathing), restless legs syndrome (RLS), and narcolepsy.
Your Guide to Healthy Sleep Introduction
Think of everything you do during your day.
Classification of sleep disorders
The complaints of insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness are covered later in this section.
Timing of sleep
The most important of these is the regularity of the waking time.
Structure of sleep (sleep architecture)
External influences and some internal stimuli have less influence on the brain during sleep than during wakefulness.
About sleep
Sleep disorders are changes in sleeping patterns or habits. Signs and symptoms of sleep disorders include excessive daytime sleepiness, irregular breathing or increased movement during sleep, difficulty sleeping, and abnormal sleep behaviors.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals are often called on to treat sleep disorders. Although some sleep disorders bear little relation to psychiatric disorders or treatment, connections between many other sleep disturbances and psychiatric disorders have been well established.
Sleep and age
Physiological Basis of Sleep and Wakefulness
Sleep Disorders
Childhood Sleep Disorders
Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Your Guide to Healthy Sleep
Classification of sleep disorders
All sleep topics
16 topics- Childhood Sleep Disorders11
- Classification of sleep disorders
- Common Sleep Disorders10
- Dreams & Nightmares7
Dyssomnias6- Healthy Sleep495
- Nature of Sleep and its Disorders19
Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep4
Parasomnias9- Physiological Basis of Sleep and Wakefulness20
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep3- Sleep and Sleep Disorders13
- Sleep Disorders38
- Sleep-Related Respiratory Disorders11
- Timing of sleep
- What Is Sleep - Introduction10
In-depth guides
A–Z index
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- Sleep and Sleep Disorders
- Sleep Apnea
- Sleep Disordered Breathing
- Sleep Disorders
- Sleep Disorders in Dementia
- Sleep hygiene
- Sleep Terror Disorder
- Sleep-Related Respiratory Disorders
- Sleep-Wake Transition Disorders
- Sleepwalking Disorder
- Specific Clinical Patterns in Aging
- Structure of sleep (sleep architecture)
- Substance-Induced Sleep Disorder
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Latest sleep news
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14 October 2015
New symptom may help ID sleep apnea in older women
2 September 2015
The timing of sleep just as important as quantity
1 September 2015