Disorders of Sleep
- Created by: Prabin Sunar
- Created on: 07-01-13 17:42
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- Disorders of sleep
- Insomnia
- Secondary Insomnia
- Maybe a symptom of an underlying medical cause
- Primary Insomnia
- Occurs on it's own. Not related to medical conditions
- Diagnosis of insomnia has implications to treatment as if it's secondary you want to treat the CAUSE.
- research in this area is complicated as more than one factors are likely to be contributing and research cannot isolate it completely.
- Insomnia can lead to the immune system underfunctioning studies have shown..
- Patients with insomnia showed problems with ceoncentraton, memory and problem solving COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
- These can increase the likelihood of accidents. Studies show that sleep deprivation is the same as alcohol consumption.
- Secondary Insomnia
- Insomnia
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