STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the spectrum of sleep disorders in patients with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI) and determine if the severity of sleep disorder is related to severity of chronic TBI. METHODS Patients who underwent evaluation for sleep disorder/s following a TBI were included in this retrospective analysis. Sixty adult patients with TBI (age 20-69 yr; 38 M and 22 F), who prese...

SOMNAMBULISM (SLEEPWALKING) IS A PARASOMNIA CHARACTERIZED BY BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF VARIOUS DEGREES OF COMPLEXITY AND duration occurring during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep.1 Somnambulistic episodes generally arise from sudden but incomplete arousal from slow-wave sleep (SWS; stage 3 and 4 sleep) during the first third of the night2-4 but may also occur out of stage 2 sleep or late...

AIMS Sleep problems in Australian children are common and consequential but have not been investigated in Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (indigenous) children. This study compares sleep in indigenous and non-indigenous children and investigates potential effects on school performance and daytime behaviour. METHODS Subjects included 25 indigenous and 25 non-indigenous children...

Sleep disorders are frequent and disturbing, mostly chronic conditions. Despite the fact practice of sleep medicine is a young field. Sleep disorders were reduced to insomnia and even insomnia was not well studied until 1960ies. This article maps amazing development of sleep disorders treatment from the beginning till current date. The text covers both scientific and clinical perspectives on mo...

Each stage of sleep can affect human health, and not getting enough at any may lead to disorder like parasomnia, apnea, insomnia, etc. Sleep-related diseases could be diagnosed using Convolutional Neural Network Classifier. However, this classifier has been successfully implemented into classification systems due high complexity low accuracy classification. The aim research is increase the redu...

Abstract Study objectives Restless sleep disorder (RSD) is a newly defined in the pediatric age group. Here, we investigated frequency of RSD and characteristics children with NREM (non-rapid eye movements) parasomnias associated RSD. Methods We analyzed all patients for last 1 year, clinical polysomnographic characteristics. Results Twenty-eight age- gender-matched 20 healthy were analyzed. Th...