Physiological Models of Chronic Insomnia

Nonpharmacologic Management of Chronic Insomnia.

Insomnia affects 10% to 30% of the population with a total cost of $92.5 to $107.5 billion annually. Short-term, chronic, and other types of insomnia are the three major categories according to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, 3rd ed. The criteria for diagnosis are difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or early awakening despite the opportunity for sleep; sym...

Neurobiological Mechanisms in Chronic Insomnia

This article states that insomnia can or should be defined in physiologic terms; insomnia is better understood from a neurobiological perspective. A review of the neurobiology of sleep and wakefulness is provided with a special emphasis on the implications for insomnia. A complete understanding of insomnia requires the neurobiological characterization of insomnia be informed by modern cognitive...

Physiological and pharmacological factors of insomnia in HIV disease.

[Cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia].

AIM To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I) in chronic insomnia treatment. METHOD 236 patients with ICD- 10 nonorganic insomnia were assigned to group CBT-I (6 sessions, 6-10 patients). From this pool, 72 participants with no history of other psychiatric or sleep disorders conditions were selected. Eventually, 51 patients (40 female, mean age: 54.6+/-13.9y, mean insom...

Insomnia with physiological hyperarousal is associated with hypertension.

Previous studies have suggested that insomnia with objective short sleep duration is associated with a higher risk of hypertension, and it has been speculated that the underlying mechanism is physiological hyperarousal. In this study, we tested whether insomnia with physiological hyperarousal measured by Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), a standard test of sleepiness/alertness, is associated ...