Insomnia is one of the several types of sleeping disorder. This particular sort of Sleeping Disorder is remarkably marked by the loss of the capability to sleep. The people who are the poor victim of the disease referred to as Insomnia not only experience the problem of the insufficiency of sleep but also cannot remain asleep for a longer period of time. Most of the the people victimized by the said kind of Sleeping Disorder opine that they cannot close their eyes for longer time. As a result of this , they are unable to experience a rest... Read More...

Hypersomnia refers to the particular disease of having excessive quantity of sleepiness . People who are the patients of the disease of Hypersomnia sleeps for excessive period of time. Generally the patients suffering from the disease of Hypersomnia are found to sleep excessively during the daytime. Then are even found to sleep while eating , talking, and sitting. They sleep during such improper times not because they are tired or because they have insufficient sleep at night . Excessive sleepiness is actually one of the major symptoms w... Read More...

Sleep is regulated by an internal clock, which is tuned by the day?night cycles named as "circadian rhythm". When the sun sets, your brain starts to release sleepy chemicals, until eventually you feel the need to retire for the night. In the morning, exposure to daylight prompts your brain to release awake chemicals. Sleep is not a static state of consciousness. We all go through various distinct stages of sleep, over and over, every night. Generally, the brain moves from light sleep to deeper sleep and eventually to rapid eye movement, ... Read More...

The sleep disorder Narcolepsy is a chronic syndrome that has many visible signs and symptoms. A patient who is suffering from the disorder called Narcolepsy is characterized by signs like drowsiness in the daytime with sudden sleep attacks. One of the facts to note about narcolepsy is that when one is suffering from this disorder, he or she finds it extremely difficult to stay up for long hours. No mater what the circumstances are, a Narcolepsy patient feels cannot remain awake for long time periods. Due to this, Narcolepsy can cause major ... Read More...

Chronic pain is generally defined as pain that has lasted 6 months or longer. Recent studies has been defined Chronic pain as pain that persists longer than the temporal course of natural healing, linked with a particular type of injury or disease process. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. It is important to note that pain is subjective in nature and is defined by the perso... Read More...

Anxiety is simply described as a physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. All these components together combine to produce the feelings that we typically recognize as apprehension, fear, or worry. Anxiety is often followed by physical sensations such as heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, headache, or stomach aches. Like wise the body prepares the organism to deal with threat known as an emergency reaction and the blood pressure and heart rate then increases, swe... Read More...

Delayed sleep phase syndrome which is abbreviated as DSPS is also known as phase lag syndrome, and is one of the Circadian Rhythm Sleep disorders. The Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is a sleep disorder which includes a disturbance in the circadian rhythm or the biological clock of the human body. The case of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, even though seems similar to the disorders like jet lag or the after effects of working in shifts is much more complicated. The Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is a never ceasing condition. According to what the... Read More...

Sleeping sickness or Human African Trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease. The parasites are protozoa of the Trypanosoma Genus. They are transmitted to humans by Glossina Genus (tsetse fly) bites. The fly acquires the infection from human beings or from animals harboring the human pathogenic parasites. Tsetse flies are found in Sub-Saharan Africa and certain species alone transmit the disease. Different species breed in different habitats. They are mainly found in vegetation by lakes and rivers, in gallery-forests and in the... Read More...

Sleep disorder Parasomnias are very unpleasant or disrupted conditions that can result from other sleep disorders like REM sleep NREM sleep during full or partial arousals. One of the most important things about Parasomnias is that it has been they can be identified by some undesirable behaviors which can be physical or verbal. This disorder can be characterized by walking during sleep or talking while sleeping. Parasomnias are very closely related to the sleep and that is why it is called one of the sleep disorders. There are several types... Read More...

Medical and psychiatric sleep disorders are sleep disorders associated with medical and psychiatric conditions. The ones with medical conditions are: Alcoholism dependency and abuse commonly disturb sleep. After half an hour of alcohol drinking consumption, subjective sleepiness rises and stays high for four hours. Then, sleep become fragmented as the fallen alcohol level increases arousals. When alcoholics abstain from drinking alcohol, sleep can be significantly disrupted, and the short episodes of sleep they do get are often marke... Read More...

The treatments for Sleep Disorder can be generally grouped into three main categories, viz, 1) behavioral/ psychotherapeutic treatments, 2) medications, and 3) other somatic treatments. None of these General Principles of Treatment is sufficient for all patients with various sleep disorders and problems. To a certain extent, the choice of a specific treatment depends on the patient's diagnosis, medical and psychiatric history, and preferences, as well as the expertise of the treating clinician. On the whole, medications and somatic tre... Read More...

Dyssomnias is of the category of Sleep disorders. In this particular type of disease , people suffer from insufficient sleep. There are even cases of Dyssomnia in which the patients suffer from excessive sleeplessness. The particular case of sleeplessness is referred to as Insomnia by the medical experts. Apart from this, some patients of Dyssomnia even suffer from the problems of wakefulness. Some patients remain wake throughout the long nights only because they find it really difficult to fall asleep. And the kinds of Dyssomnia in whic... Read More...