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
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Support Group: sleepassociation.org; (American Sleep Association)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Association between the clustering of adverse childhood experiences and sleep quality in middle-aged and older Chinese adultsby A L Cheng on May 8, 2024
Objective: To examine the association between the clustering of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and sleep quality in middle-aged and older Chinese adults. Methods: Data were from the Life History Survey in 2014 and the third wave follow-up survey in 2015 of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). A total of 10 824 participants aged 45 years and above were included in this study. According to the number of ACEs, the participants were divided into four groups: 0, 1, 2-3 and≥4...
- Quality of sleep in individuals with systemic sclerosis and its correlation with functional disability and quality of life: a cross-sectional studyby Gabriela da Silva Santos on May 8, 2024
CONCLUSION: This study showed that poor sleep quality is a very common finding among systemic sclerosis patients, and it negatively affects both the quality of life and the degree of disability. Sleep quality is an unmet need in patients with systemic sclerosis Poor sleep quality is very common in patients with systemic sclerosis Poor sleep quality correlated with worse quality of life and greater disability.
- Investigating light sensitivity in bipolar disorder (HELIOS-BD)by Amber Roguski on May 8, 2024
Many people with bipolar disorder have disrupted circadian rhythms. This means that the timing of sleep and wake activities becomes out-of-sync with the standard 24-hour cycle. Circadian rhythms are strongly influenced by light levels and previous research suggests that people with bipolar disorder might have a heightened sensitivity to light, causing more circadian rhythm disruption, increasing the potential for triggering a mood switch into mania or depression. Lithium has been in clinical use...
- Sleep quality depends not only on radicular pain but also on other factorsby Fulvio Alexandre Scorza on May 8, 2024
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