In easy words, insomnia is typically defined as the inability to sleep. The word insomnia itself comes from the Latin word “in somus” which means no sleep. Insomnia or inability to sleep is mainly specified by difficulty in initiating sleep, frequent awakenings, and difficulty in returning to sleep. From a condition, it becomes a disorder …
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Insomnia or difficulty in sleeping is one of the most prevalent problems, causing distress or impairment of normal functioning of the human body and mind. Insomnia can present itself as a sole disorder or can co-occur with other health issues.1 Approximately 10-30% of the population is affected every year with sleeping difficulties.2 Several behavioral and …
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Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep problem in which the brain is not able to control the sleep-wake cycle. It makes you feel extremely tired, and in severe cases, uncontrollable sudden attacks of sleep during the daytime. The sudden attacks of sleep occur at inappropriate times, like working, talking to someone, driving, having a meal or …
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Every human being spends almost one-third of life sleeping. Despite being such an important component of life, there is still a lot of enigmas about the relation between the brain, the process of sleeping, and the disorders related to sleep.1 Poor or insufficient sleep can be associated with several dysfunctions in body systems such as …
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A range of conditions described by abnormal breathing during sleep is grouped in sleep-disordered breathing. In most cases, it is associated with narrowing or obstruction of the upper respiratory airway and is usually presented either as abnormal respiratory patterns (episodic occurrence of apneas and hypoapneas) or insufficient ventilation of the airway during sleep. The Greek …
Sleep is a state of physical and mental inactivity, making the person become relatively slow and unaware of the surroundings. It is a homeostatic process maintaining the balance between active and periodic physiological mechanisms in the body essential for physical, mental and general well being. The quantity and quality of sleep is affected by several …
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Sleep is commonly considered as a type of brain activity that helps to recover and reenergize the mind and body. Sleep researchers generally state that humans spend one third of their lives sleeping. A good night sleep is characterized by the absence of voluntary movements, synced with biological clock of the body, specific postures that …
Optimal sleep is complex and poorly understood. Optimal sleep can be defined as “the daily amount of sleep that allows a subject to be fully awake (i.e. not sleepy) and able to sustain normal levels of performance during the daytime” as well as “the amount of sleep required to feel refreshed in the morning”. However, …
Normally, one tends to believe that when a person sleeps, the brain and the body are in a type of a shutdown mode. However, this is not the case. Sleep constitutes an active period in which the human body goes through some very important processes which lead to restoration as well as the strengthening of …
According to a study which polled 1,015 people belonging to three different generations, it was revealed that more than half of the people polled sleep naked. The percentage for the women participants in the study stood at 56% while that of men was at 60%. If analyzed in terms of generations, it gave even more …
