OBJECTIVES To review the clinical characteristics, comorbidities, and management of insomnia in childhood and adolescence. SOURCES This was a non-systematic literature review carried out in the PubMed database, from where articles published in the last five years were selected, using the key word "insomnia" and the pediatric age group filter. Additionally, the study also included articles and...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the most commonly perceived barriers to treatment seeking among individuals in the United Kingdom diagnosed with primary insomnia. Although there are effective treatments, the rate of insomnia in the United Kingdom is 22%, which is substantially higher than in other parts of Europe and in the United States. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Treatment and research c...

Research has found that repetitive thought processes, such as worry and rumination, play an important role in several disorders; however, these cognitive processes have not yet been examined in insomnia. This study explores rumination and worry in insomnia by examining: 1) whether those high and low on rumination and worry differ on subjective sleep measures, and 2) whether rumination and worry...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the joint effect of insomnia and objective short sleep duration on hypertension risk. DESIGN Representative cross-sectional study. SETTING Sleep laboratory. PARTICIPANTS 1,741 men and women randomly selected from central Pennsylvania. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS Insomnia was defined by a complaint of insomnia with a duration > or = 1 year, while poor s...

Chronic insomnia is one of the most prevalent central nervous system disorders. It is characterized by increased arousal levels, however, the neurobiological causes and correlates of hyperarousal in insomnia remain to be further determined. In the current study, magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used in the morning and evening in a well-characterized sample of 20 primary insomnia patients (12...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of occult sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and describe the relationship between classic SDB symptoms (e.g., loud snoring) and occult SDB in older veterans with insomnia. METHODS We analyzed baseline survey and in-home sleep study data for 435 veterans (mean age = 72.0 years [SD 8.0]) who had no known history of SDB, met International Classificatio...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to examine the association of insomnia symptoms with demographic and physical and mental conditions in a large population-based study. METHODS Cross-sectional data on insomnia and comorbid conditions were gathered from 47,700 individuals aged 20-89 in Norway. Comorbid conditions included anxiety and depression and the following physical conditions: a...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances such as sleep fragmentation, sleep disordered breathing (SDB), periodic limb movements (PLM), excessive daytime somnolence (EDS) and insomnia are prevalent in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, studies in the Asian population are limited. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study involving 46 Malaysians with PD using polysomnography (PSG) and standardized translat...

Although sleep complaints are common in depression and anxiety, there is little agreement as to how they should be organized and assessed. It is also unclear whether sleep complaints show specificity with certain disorders or whether they are nonspecific symptoms. The authors examined the structure of sleep complaints and the relations of these complaints to depression and anxiety in 3 samples:...