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Dyssomnias are primary disorders of initiating or maintaining sleep or of excessive sleepiness and are characterized by a disturbance in the amount, quality, or timing of sleep. Patients may complain of difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, intermittent wakefulness during the night, early morning awakening, or combinations of any of these.
Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping. [1] [11] They may have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep for as long as desired.
Sleep apnea is a serious disorder that has symptoms of both insomnia and sleep deprivation, among other symptoms like excessive daytime sleepiness, abrupt awakenings, and difficulty concentrating. [131] It is a sleep related breathing disorder that can cause partial or complete obstruction of the upper airways during sleep. [132]
Sleep apnea is a condition in which the tongue and soft palette slide back into the throat, obstructing a person’s breathing. It’s scary to wake up gasping for air, especially for children.
The most common sleep-related symptom of bipolar disorder is insomnia, in addition to hypersomnia, nightmares, poor sleep quality, OSA, extreme daytime sleepiness, etc. [27] Moreover, animal models have shown that sleep debt can induce episodes of bipolar mania in laboratory mice, but these models are still limited in their potential to explain ...
Night terror, also called sleep terror, is a sleep disorder causing feelings of panic or dread and typically occurring during the first hours of stage 3–4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep [1] and lasting for 1 to 10 minutes. [2]
Tongue-ties affect nearly 5 percent of all newborns. What are the signs a baby has a tongue-tie? And how is tongue-tie treated? Yahoo Life asked parents and experts to share their own stories.
[9] [10] It is a difficulty transitioning from sleep to wake. [10] Individuals experiencing sleep drunkenness report waking with confusion, disorientation, slowness and repeated returns to sleep. [9] [11] It also appears in non-hypersomniac persons, for example after a night of insufficient sleep. [9]