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Hypersomnia
Hypersomnia, a complaint of excessive daytime sleep or sleepiness, affects 4% to 6% of the population, with an impact on the everyday life of the patient Methodological tools to explore sleep and wakefulness (interview, questionnaires, sleep diary, polysomnography, Multiple Sleep Latency Test, Maintenance of Wakefulness Test) and psychomotor tests (for example, psychomotor vigilance task and Ox...
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This article includes discussion of idiopathic hypersomnia (IH), which is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, difficulty awakening (sleep drunkenness), and undisturbed overnight sleep without cataplexy or known cause of excessive sleepiness. Excessive sleepiness (hypersomnolence) of unknown etiology, which cannot be explained by another disorder, would be considered idiopathic hypers...
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Volitional sleep deprivation and obstructive sleep apnea are the most common causes of hypersomnia. The remaining causes are primarily due to p r imary cen t r a l ne rvous sys t em abnormalities, the most common of which is narcolepsy, a primary disorder of the neural control of wakefulness and sleep.
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STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the prevalence and natural history of sleepiness following traumatic brain injury. METHODS This prospective cohort study used the Sickness Impact Profile to evaluate sleepiness in 514 consecutive subjects with traumatic brain injury (TBI), 132 non-cranial trauma controls, and 102 trauma-free controls 1 month and 1 year after injury. RESULTS Fifty-five percent of...
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Primary hypersomnia, a rare clinical syndrome, was diagnosed in a 14-year-old boy. The syndrome showed partial response to high dose fluoxetine therapy (120 mg/day) which recruited insomnia, an adverse effect of the drug, for therapeutic purposes. Response was enhanced with intermittent methylphenidate in association with a lower dose of fluoxetine. A possible pharmacokinetic interaction develo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1950
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4652.522