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A blossary on different disorders of sleep.

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Narcolepsy, also known as hypnolepsy, is a chronic neurological disorder caused by autoimmune destruction of hypocretin-producing neurons inhibiting the brain's ability to regulate sleep-wake ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Sleepwalkers arise from the slow wave sleep stage in a state of low consciousness and ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

The main symptom of hypersomnia is excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), or prolonged nighttime sleep, which has occurred for at least 3 months prior to diagnosis. Hypersomnia affects approximately 5% ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Nocturnal enuresis' or nighttime urinary incontinence, commonly called bedwetting or sleepwetting, is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control usually occurs. ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare sleep disorder characterized by persistent episodic hypersomnia and cognitive or mood changes. Many patients also experience hyperphagia, hypersexuality and ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Nocturia, also called nycturia, is defined as the complaint that the individual has to wake at night one or more times for voiding. Its causes are varied and, in many patients, difficult to ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which a person, either when falling asleep or awakening, temporarily experiences an inability to move. It is a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

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