Sleep Disorders
What is a sleep disorder?
A sleep disorder is anything that causes clinically significant symptoms in sleep or from sleep or during the day.
How many types of sleep disorder are there?
There are about eighty four defined sleep disorders in the international classification of sleep disorders.
What is the most common sleep disorder?
There's a great deal of debate about what the most common sleep disorder is. The most common sleep disorder in terms of prevalence is the condition called insomnia- the lack of sleep, or not enough sleep, or interrupted sleep that results in daytime symptoms.
Are sleep disorders hereditary?
There are a variety of factors that affect any disorder whether it's a sleep disorder or a non-sleep disorder. Of those factors, part of the picture is usually hereditary or inherited factors or biological vulnerability, social factors and psychological factors. All of these factors play a part in the genesis of sleep disorders.
Are nightmares a sleep disorder?
Nightmares are quite common in children, and if they persist and cause distress during the day and at night, then yes, they are classified as sleep disorders. Nightmares usually occur in a type of sleep we call rapid eye movement sleep, or, in inverted commas, 'dreaming sleep.'
How can you stop nightmares?
The variety of interventions that have been done in children. Interventions such as; hypnotherapy and relaxation training. Explaining to the child that it is a nightmare, and educating the children about the physiology of nightmares usually helps significantly. In adults the current nightmares may be a mean able tool, drugs that contain the compound serotonin work on the serotonin receptors. There's an association between the anxiety disorders, post-traumatic disorders and increasing nightmares.