Insomnia and narcolepsy
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Inadequate sleep hygiene factors
* varying food, alcohol and drug ingestion
best Rx = regular living habits and reduction of drugs
Hypnotic dependent sleep disorder
Stimulatn dependent sleep disorder
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Alcohol dependent sleep disorder
Insomnia due to medical condition
* Fatal familian insomnia
Fatal familial insomnia (FFI)
within a few months there is a total lack of sleep.
in later stages of the disorder, there are motor disturbances and loss of weight.
Eventually unarousable coma.
FFI = inherited
SFI = spontaneously (Sporadic fatal insomnia)
Enviromental sleep disorder
Klein- levine syndrome
- patients are more often male than female
- patients sleep 18-20 hours a day
- when awake, patients often engages in binge-eating, goes to the bathroom and returns to sleep
Behaviorally indued insufficient sleep syndrome
Problems Barbiturates (sleep promoting drugs)
* addiction
* over-dosage
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