Sleep, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Dementia

Mar 18, 2017 by in PSYCHIATRY Comments Off on Sleep, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Dementia

Dementia type Sleep disturbances Causes of sleep disturbances AD Insomnia Sundowning Excessive daytime sleepiness Decreased REM sleep time Increased REM latency Increased nocturnal waking Increased daytime napping Medication side effects…

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Cholera

Mar 18, 2017 by in PSYCHIATRY Comments Off on Cholera

Dates Geographical reaches Public health measures and particular events 1817–1825 Asia and East Africa, spreading to Russia and Europe in 1823  1826–1841 Spreading from Mecca to Egypt, Europe and Algeria …

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Sleep in Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Fig. 32.1 Number of articles published between the years 1966 and 2013 dealing with “Parkinson disease” (PD) and with “sleep disorders and PD.” The number of publications on the area…

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The Greco-Roman Period

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Fig. 8.1 Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep Message dreams, as well as “symbolic dreams” [1], which contained more enigmatic imagery, were clearly seen by the ancients as being supernatural…

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The Insomnias: Historical Evolution

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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard (eds.)Sleep Medicine10.1007/978-1-4939-2089-1_25 25. The Insomnias: Historical Evolution Suresh Kumar1, 2 and Sudhansu Chokroverty3   (1) Department of Neurology, Sree Balajee Medical College and Hospital, Chrompet, Chennai, India (2)…

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Evolution of the Classification of Sleep Disorders

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F51 Nonorganic sleep disorders  F51.0 Nonorganic insomnia  F51.1 Nonorganic hypersomnia  F51.2 Nonorganic disorder of the sleep–wake schedule  F51.3 Sleepwalking (somnambulism)  F51.4 Sleep terrors (night terrors)  F51.5 Nightmares  F51.8 Other nonorganic…

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African Sleeping Sickness

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2. WHO. Control and surveillance of African trypanosomiasis. Report of a WHO Expert Committee. Technical Report Series no.°881. Geneva; 1998. 3. Hotez PJ, Fenwick A, Savioli L, Molyneux DH. Rescuing…

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