Sleep Disorder
The collective term sleep disorder refers to conditions that affect sleep quality, timing, or duration and impact a person’s ability to properly function while they are awake. These disorders can contribute to other medical problems, and some may also be symptoms for underlying mental health issues.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW204
Diagnosis: Sleep Disorder
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Age Onset: children and adults
Brain Area: hippocampus-plaque increases lead to cell death
Symptoms: A “blanket term” for insomnia, apnea, narcolepsy, hypersomnia, sleepwalking, night terrors and sleeping sickness
Progression: sleep-disordered breathing, restless legs syndrome, bruxism-tooth grinding, sleep paralysis, shift-work
Causes: increased medication, changes in circadian rhythm, physiological problems, stress, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s, allergies
Medications: for narcolepsy use modifinil
Therapies: hypnosis, music-inducing relaxation
Youtube Video:
The Rise of Sleep Disorders And What We Can Do About It
Amazon or Library Book: Sleep: How To Unleash Deep Sleep
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Support Group: sleepassociation.org; (American Sleep Association)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Melatonin: A Review of the Evidence for Use in Hospital Settingsby Josephine A Adattini on January 22, 2025
New onset insomnia is often experienced by patients during hospitalization due to environmental disruptions, pain and increased patient care activities. Patient distress arising from poor sleep quality and quantity often results in the prescribing of hypnotics. Melatonin use in hospital settings is common and is increasingly used for off label indications including primary insomnia in those aged < 55 years, prevention of delirium and to facilitate benzodiazepine discontinuation. A literature...
- Factors Influencing Obstructive Sleep Apnea Among Employees With Metabolic Syndrome: An Example of a District Hospital in Northern Taiwanby Yi-Fen Wang on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS / IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: In light of the high percentage (65.2% in this study) of MS employees affected by OSA, regular health screenings should include a home sleep apnea test for high-risk employees to assess their risk of developing OSA. In addition, promoting a healthy lifestyle to improve MS and prevent OSA is needed.
- Relationship between freezing of gait in Parkinson disease and locus coeruleus dysfunction: a neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging studyby Yanyan Yang on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicated that the FoG is associated with noradrenergic dysfunction caused by LC degeneration.
- Altered effective connectivity in Parkinson's disease patients with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study and support vector machine analysisby Ai-Di Shan on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: The altered z-DC in the right precentral gyrus and the anomaly causal effects from the precentral motor cortex to the ipsilateral striatum represented by the caudate nucleus might play vital roles in the pathogenesis of PD-pRBD. It was speculated that the attenuation of FC from the precentral motor cortex to the subcortical striatum might be associated with nocturnal muscle dyskinesia and behavioral abnormalities in PD-pRBD patients. This disruption pattern may be a prospective...