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A blossary on different disorders of sleep.

Category: Health

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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

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

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

Exploding head syndrome (EHS) is a form of hypnagogic auditory hallucination and is a rare and relatively undocumented parasomnia event in which the subject experiences a loud bang in their head ...

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

Hypnophobia, also termed clinophobia or somniphobia, is the often irrational and excessive fear of sleep. It may result from a feeling of control loss, or from repeating nightmares or anxiety over ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Insomnia, or sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or to stay asleep as long as desired. nsomnia is most often thought of as both a medical sign and a ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

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