In this data article, records on demographic data, family problem issues, as well as results of medical tests from five major classes of psychotic disorder namely: bipolar; vascular dementia, minimal brain dysfunction; insomnia; and schizophrenia, were collected on 500 psychotic patients carefully selected from the pool of medical records of Yaba Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, for the pe...

THE TRANSITION FROM WAKEFULNESS TO SLEEP IS MARKED BY A PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, REDUCTION OF STIMULUS RECEPTION, CESSATION OF BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE, AND AN ABSENCE OF MEMORY.1 Accordingly, for the sleeper, the exact point of sleep onset is elusive. One interesting finding to emerge from research on human sleep is that many people with insomnia overestimate their sleep-onset latency (SO...

BACKGROUND Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major cause of chronic liver disease. In smaller studies, sleep apnea has been previously associated with NAFLD. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and independent associations of sleep disorders in patients with NAFLD using recent population-based data. METHODS Three cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examinati...

Psychiatric disorders constitute 15.4% of the disease burden in established market economies. Many psychiatric disorders are associated with sleep disturbances, and the relationship is often bidirectional. This paper reviews the prevalence of various psychiatric disorders, their clinical presentation, and their association with sleep disorders. Among the psychiatric disorders reviewed are affec...

Insomnia during acute alcohol withdrawal (AWD) as well as persisting insomnia during postacute withdrawal is associated with relapse. Rates of insomnia in clinical samples of alcohol-dependent patients range from 36% to 91%, but the prevalence of AWD-related insomnia in the general population is unknown. The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of insomnia as a symptom of acute ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine prevalence and heritability of insomnia during middle/late childhood and adolescence; examine longitudinal associations in insomnia over time; and assess the extent to which genetic and environmental factors on insomnia remain stable, or whether new factors come into play, across this developmental period. DESIGN Longitudinal twin study. SETTING Academic medica...