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Sleepiness

open access: yes, 2011
Written and edited by leading clinicians and researchers in sleep medicine, this is the first book to focus on the causes, consequences and treatment of disorders of excessive sleepiness. Extensive coverage is provided for all known causes of sleepiness, including sleep deprivation, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, narcolepsy and other hypersomnias of
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Examining signs of driver sleepiness, usage of sleepiness countermeasures and the associations with sleepy driving behaviours and individual factors [PDF]

open access: yesAccident Analysis and Prevention, 2015
The impairing effect from sleepiness is a major contributor to road crashes. The ability of a sleepy driver to perceive their level of sleepiness is an important consideration for road safety as well as the type of sleepiness countermeasure used by ...
Christopher N Watling   +2 more
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Driver sleepiness

Journal of Sleep Research, 1995
SUMMARY Falling asleep at the wheel accounts for a sizeable number of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. The risk of driver death and serious injury is high. Circadian factors are profound and seem to be of equal (if not more) importance to the duration of the drive. Unfortunately, only the latter tends to be built into legislation.
, Horne, , Reyner
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Sleepiness

Clinical Pediatrics, 2006
Abstract In Chapter 1, I mentioned that the cortex is unable to switch off and rest to any marked extent, outside sleep. On the other hand, many brain structures below the cortex, largely controlling vital body functions and common to all mammals, continue to function fairly normally throughout sleep, as in wakefulness. Unlike the cortex,
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Sleepiness

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Sleepiness in Narcolepsy

Sleep Medicine Clinics, 2017
Narcolepsy represents the best understood disorder of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). EDS presents in 100% of patients with narcolepsy; it is usually the first and the most disabling symptom, which varies in aspects, such as onset age, severity, and clinical characteristics.
Jun, Zhang, Fang, Han
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Sleepiness in Adolescents

Sleep Medicine Clinics, 2017
Sleepiness and sleep deprivation among adolescents are increasingly being recognized as a public health concern. Many of the determinants of this growing problem lie beyond the biomedical scope of explanation. In this article, the authors begin with a review of the prevalence and consequences of sleepiness in adolescents and then present the approach ...
Roah A, Merdad   +2 more
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Sleepiness

Seminars in Neurology, 2016
Sleep medicine can be a particularly rewarding clinical area for neurologists. After all, the driving organ of sleep is the brain. Many of the sleep disorders are primary brain disorders, whereas other sleep disorders (and their medications) influence brain function.
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