Narcolepsy, also known as sudden sleep disorder, is a rare life-long disorder of the central nervous system characterized by the brain’s inability to control sleep-wake cycles. People suffering from narcolepsy have sudden sleeps that are managed with medication. Juliet says because of a lack o...
On the other hand, psychotherapy has also been shown to have benefits for people who go through it. Therapy often leads to better relationships, solutions to specific problems, significant reductions in feelings of distress, improved sleep, and less fatigue. But there are no guarantees as to ...
High altitude (mountain) sicknessdue to brain swelling. Symptoms appear within 6 hours to 4 days after arriving at high altitude: Sudden, intense, throbbing frontal or diffuse headache Shortness of breath Weakness Confusion, inability to sleep Swelling of the face, hands and feet Eclampsiaare seiz...
11 Thus, we propose that SIDS results from an abnormality of the medullary 5-HT system that causes an inability to restore homeostasis following life-threatening challenges, eg, asphyxia, during a sleep period and leads to sudden death in the critical first year of life, when homeostatic ...
the peculiar stresses of Hmong refugee experience transformed its outcome. The power of traditional belief in the nightmare—in the context of the trauma of war, migration, rapid acculturation, and inability to practice traditional healing and ritual—causes cataclysmic psychological stress to male Hmong...
Red flags for melancholic depression include sudden and significant change in behaviour, poor sleep, sudden unexplained appetite loss, sudden inability to work effectively and complaints about being unable to think, unusual ruminations and/or... K Wilhelm - 《Medicine Today》 被引量: 2发表: 2009年...
The most frustrating part was the inability to pinpoint the source; work was a piece of it, but I knew it wasn’t the whole pie. Sweaty palms and shallow breathing would randomly come about while eating dinner with family or during a drive to the store on an otherwise normal, low-stres...
Postictal impairment of wakefulness and arousal probably contributes to the inability of a patient to respond to an external stressor, such as lying prone in bed SUDEP shares many similarities with sudden infant death syndrome, which has been linked to a defect in the 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)...
It has been suggested that SIDS is due to inability to recover from prolonged apnea during sleep. Several mechanisms for recovering from sleep apnea are triggered when the chemoreceptors detect hypoxia and hypercapnia. An early-stage mechanism is arousal from sleep, whereas a lat...
Factors that may be involved are the infant having a poor sleep arousal mechanism, an inability to detect elevated CO2 levels in the blood, or a cardiac channelopathy that affects heart rhythm. Fewer than 5% of infants with SIDS have episodes of prolonged apnea befo...