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Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is characterized by persistent sleepiness and often a general lack of energy, even during the day after apparently adequate or even prolonged nighttime sleep. EDS can be considered as a broad condition encompassing several sleep disorders where increased sleep is a symptom, or as a symptom of another ...
Frailty syndrome. A woman supporting herself with a walking frame. Specialty. Geriatrics. Frailty is a common and clinically significant grouping of symptoms that occurs in aging and older adults. These symptoms can include decreased physical abilities such as walking, excessive fatigue, and weight and muscle loss leading to declined physical ...
Hypersomnia is a pathological state characterized by a lack of alertness during the waking episodes of the day. [ 3 ] It is not to be confused with fatigue, which is a normal physiological state. [ 4 ] Daytime sleepiness appears most commonly during situations where little interaction is needed. [ 5 ]
Aicardi syndrome. AIDS – neurological manifestations. Akinetopsia. Alexander Disease. Alien hand syndrome. Allan–Herndon–Dudley syndrome. Alternating hemiplegia of childhood. Alzheimer's disease. Amaurosis fugax.
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Fatigue describes a state of tiredness (which is not sleepiness), exhaustion [1] or loss of energy. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Fatigue (in the medical sense) is sometimes associated with medical conditions including autoimmune disease , organ failure , chronic pain conditions, mood disorders , heart disease , infectious diseases , and post-infectious-disease ...
Chronic fatigue with a known cause is twice as common as idiopathic chronic fatigue. [6] Idiopathic chronic fatigue affects between 2.4% and 6.42% of patients, [26] with females more likely to be affected than men. [1] Age at onset is typically over 50 years of age. [13]
Lethargy. Lethargy is a state of tiredness, sleepiness, weariness, fatigue, sluggishness, or lack of energy. It can be accompanied by depression, decreased motivation, or apathy. Lethargy can be a normal response to inadequate sleep, overexertion, overworking, stress, lack of exercise, improper nutrition, drug abuse, boredom, or a symptom of an ...