Sleep Disturbances in General Medical Disorders

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Sleep Disturbances in General Medical Disorders

Congestive heart failure • Ischemic heart disease • Nocturnal angina • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Bronchial asthma, including nocturnal asthma • Peptic ulcer disease • Reflux esophagitis • Rheumatic…

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Basic Circadian Timing and Sleep-Wake Regulation

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Basic Circadian Timing and Sleep-Wake Regulation

Fig. 6.1 Efferent neural projections from the SCN to different brains regions and their involvement in the regulation of physiological functions. ARC arcuate nucleus; BNST bed nucleus of the stria terminalis;…

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Nature, Evaluation, and Treatment of Insomnia

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Nature, Evaluation, and Treatment of Insomnia

∙ The predominant complaint is a dissatisfaction with sleep quality or duration, associated with one or more of the following symptoms: 1. Difficulty initiating sleep 2. Difficulty maintaining sleep, characterized…

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Sleep, Coma, Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Sleep, Coma, Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Fig. 43.1 The two main components of consciousness: wakefulness and awareness. In most pathological and physiological states, the two components are linearly correlated along the spectrum of consciousness. In some cases,…

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Sleep in Extreme Environment

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Sleep in Extreme Environment

Fig. 58.1 Effects of microgravity on fluid redistribution of upper trunk and face in the first few days in space (From the Internet domain of nasa.gov website)   2. Low back…

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Fatigue in Clinical Practice

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Fatigue in Clinical Practice

Patients choose a number from 1 to 7 that shows their degree of agreement with every statement, where 1 indicates strongly disagree and 7 indicates strongly agree    • My motivation…

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Maintenance of Wakefulness Test

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Maintenance of Wakefulness Test

  Maintenance of wakefulness test Multiple sleep latency test Overnight polysomnogram required prior to test No Yes Recording montage EEG (C3-A2,C4-A1,01-A2,02-A1), EOG (left and right), EMG (submetal), EKG EEG (C3-A2,C4-A1,01-A2,02-A1),…

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Sleep and Alternative Medicine: I

Oct 7, 2017 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Sleep and Alternative Medicine: I

Symptoms CAM Nervousness, trembling, headaches, heart palpitations, gastrointestinal spasms and distress, epileptic seizures, and attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, during menopause Valerian Nervous tension Skull cap, valerian Depression St. John’s wort Sleep…

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