Factors such as noise from the street, intense light, or heat can make your sleep uncomfortable. If you change your sleeping location, you may also have concerns. Pathological factors Of diseases like flu, fever, headache, and painful conditions can rob you of sleep peacefully. Some disorders,...
your sleep style (especially back sleeping), being overweight or older, or using alcohol or other depressants. While both types of snoring happen when tissues in the back of your throat vibrate, people with sleep apnea tend to:
General insomnia is a classification of sleep disorders in which a person has trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, waking up too early, or combining any of those circumstances. These disorders are either short-term or chronic and fall into primary and secondary categories. Primary insomnia exis...
Bothnight terrorsandsleepwalkingarise during NREM sleep and occur most often in children between the ages of 3 and 5 years old. A night terror can be dramatic: Your child may wake up screaming, but unable to explain the fear. Sometimes children who have night terrors remember a frightening i...
Most sleep disordersthat affect children are behavioral. There are two main types, but some children exhibit a mixture of the two types. Children with this type of insomnia learn to go to sleep in a certain way. Babiesmay depend on rocking ornursingto fall asleep. Older children may need ...
Sleep disorders, such as restless leg syndrome or sleep apnea Psychological conditions, such as bipolar disorder or depression Who is at Risk for Parasomnia? Certain risk factors may increase your chances of developing parasomnia. Children and older adults are more likely to experience parasomnia. Men...
Sleep apnea, the cessation of breathing during sleep, is a common problem that affects both children and adults. The National Institutes of Health estimate that over 12 million Americans have sleep apnea and most often are undetected or misdiagnosed! In fact, conservative estimates suggest that onl...
Some patients with heart failure have central sleep apnea associated with a Cheyne-Stokes pattern of breathing. Central sleep apnea usually occurs in adults with other medical problems. In infants, it usually occurs with prematurity or other congenital disorders. In both patient groups, it is ...
Usually this lasts for two weeks or longer, and has some symptoms as Major depression. There are different types of disorders under Minor Depression: Psychotic depression: This is a bit of major depression and psychosis. Psychosis a mental condition in which when a person loses contact with real...
neurosis, generally outmoded term used to refer to mental disorderscharacterizedbyanxiety,depression, or other feelings of unhappiness or distress. Neuroses typically were associated with a sense of distress and a deficit in functioning to the extent that they threatened to impair a person’s ability...