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Waking up to my sleep disorder
Science, 2021Moments before I presented my first seminar as a postdoc to my lab group, my eyelids grew heavy and my sense of alertness dissolved into a dreamlike state. It was a sleep attack—a result of narcolepsy, which I was diagnosed with 2 years earlier. I apologized for my incessant yawning and continued with my talk despite an overwhelming urge to sleep. It’s
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Sleep-Wake Disorders of Childhood
Continuum, 2017Sleep-wake disorders occur in 10% to 28% of children and differ somewhat in pathophysiology and management from sleep-wake disorders in adults. This article discusses the diagnosis and management of key childhood sleep disorders.The role of sleep in memory consolidation and in the facilitation of learning has been increasingly recognized, even at the ...
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Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders
Continuum, 2020This article provides an overview of circadian physiology and discusses common presentations and treatment strategies for the circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders.Circadian rhythms are present throughout the body, and appreciation for the role that circadian dysregulation plays in overall health is increasing, with mounting associations between ...
Sabra M. Abbott, Phyllis C. Zee
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Age‐related Sleep—Wake Disorders at a Sleep Disorder Center
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1983The specific sleep disorders of 97 patients 61–81 years old were compared with those of 264 middle‐aged (41–60 years old) and 202 young (20–40 years old) patients. Sleep disorder diagnoses were made according to the Diagnostic Classification of the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers based on evaluations consisting of mental and physical ...
F Zorick +4 more
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Update on Disorders of Sleep and the Sleep-Wake Cycle
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1992Wakefulness and sleep are antagonistic states competing for the domain of brain activity. Non-REM sleep and REM sleep are different states of being, sustained by activity in brainstem nuclei, hypothalamus, basal forebrain, and thalamus. Such complex phenomenology is subject to many alterations grouped in the new International Classification of Sleep ...
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Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2015The circadian system regulates the timing and expression of nearly all biological processes, most notably, the sleep-wake cycle, and disruption of this system can result in adverse effects on both physical and mental health. The circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders (CRSWDs) consist of 5 disorders that are due primarily to pathology of the circadian ...
Phyllis C. Zee +2 more
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Sleep-to-wake transition movement disorders
Sleep Medicine, 2011Consciousness and vigilance level are important factors for the manifestation and variability of many disorders, including movement disorders. Usually lumped together into unspecified "Wakefulness," the transition between wakefulness and sleep--the pre-dormitum, and between sleep and wakefulness--the post-dormitum, possess intrinsic cerebral metabolic ...
Roberto Vetrugno, Pasquale Montagna
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Sleep and wakefulness disorders in neurodegenerative diseases
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova, 2018The article reviews the phenomenology of sleep and wakefulness disorders in Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Degeneration of sleep and wakefulness centers, secondary effect of other symptoms of diseases and side-effects of drug therapy lead to a widespread prevalence of sleep and wakefulness disturbances in these patients.
M G Poluektov +3 more
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Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders
Continuum, 2017The endogenous circadian rhythms are one of the cardinal processes that control sleep. They are self-sustaining biological rhythms with a periodicity of approximately 24 hours that may be entrained by external zeitgebers (German for time givers), such as light, exercise, and meal times.
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