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A blossary on different disorders of sleep.

Category: Health

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Circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSD) are a family of sleep disorders affecting, among other things, the timing of sleep. People with circadian rhythm sleep disorders are unable to sleep and wake ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Dyssomnias are a broad classification of sleeping disorders that make it difficult to get to sleep, or to remain sleeping. Dyssomnias are primary disorders of initiating or maintaining sleep or of ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

A night terror, sleep terror or pavor nocturnus is a parasomnia disorder, causing feelings of terror or dread, and typically occurring in the first few hours of sleep during stage 3 or 4 non-rapid ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Bruxism is the excessive grinding of the teeth and/or excessive clenching of the jaw while the person is sleeping. It is an oral parafunctional activity; it is unrelated to normal function such as ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental, social and ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

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