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Posted on Jan 7, 2011

Sleep Terrors

Sleep terrors are more than just scary nightmares; these episodes can result in a person leaping out of bed and running around screaming about an imagined danger or threat. People who have sleep terrors encounter dreams that seem so alarming and so realistic that they truly feel as though they are in danger....
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010

Sleep Walking

Sonmambulism is commonly known as sleep walking, and although there have been plenty of comical portrayals of this sleep disorder this is a rare disorder that can greatly affect people negatively. People who walk in their sleep risk injury to themselves and the people around them, and have sometimes been...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2010

Common Treatments For Sleep Disorders

Those individuals who experience sleep disorders know all to well that their lives are disrupted by the condition. They may even have had negative impacts on their jobs, on performance at school or in a relationship. They may even have been in trouble with the law if they fell asleep at the wheel and caused...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2010

Narcolepsy

Many people are familiar with the concept of Narcolepsy since it has been referred to in movies and stories, many times in a comical sense. The common image is of a person in the middle of a conversation who suddenly drops to the ground, having gone from a state of alertness to an immediate state of complete...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2010

Sleep Disturbances Common To Women

Did you know that women are twice as likely as men are to have sleep disorders? Women have frequent sleep problems during their reproductive years. There are many factors that can influence a woman’s ability to have normal sleep patterns including hormone levels, the stress in their lives, their...
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Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Questions And Answers About Sleep Disorders

People are often curious about sleep disorders or else they suspect that they may have a sleep disorder and therefore they have lots of questions about sleep disorders. OK, now when you have a sleep disorder of course it won’t take a genius to know you’ll have trouble sleeping! But there are...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2010

Paradoxical Insomnia

When people think of sleep disorders they most commonly think of insomnia, a problem characterized by the sufferer not being able to get the kind of sleep he would like. Sometimes the issue may be not falling asleep easily, while other people will wake up before they want to and not be able to get back to...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2010

Recurrent Hypersomnia

Recurrent Hypersomnia is an extremely rare sleep disorder that involves intensely long periods of sleep that cannot be avoided. People with this disorder may take to bed for up to eighteen hours a day, and they will sleep consistently during these times. This disorder is not a byproduct of depression or drug...
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Posted on Aug 1, 2010

The Incurable Sleep Disorder Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a mystery for many reasons but recently scientists have uncovered animal research data that may indicate that molecular brain malfunctions may have a role in the development of narcolepsy. 200,000 Americans are affected by Narcolepsy, a brain/sleep disorder that is characterized by...
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Posted on Jun 27, 2010

What Are Parasomnias

Disruptive sleep-related disorders are called parasomnias. They are undesirable physical or veral behaviors or experiences that people have that are associated with sleep or the sleep-awake transition phase. There are two phases of parasomnias. The primary and the secondary phases are the two different...
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Posted on May 30, 2010

Night Terrors Is A Sleep Disorder

Night terrors is also known as sleep terrors, sleep terror disorder, pavor nocturnus and DSM-IV AXIS I: 307.46. Another sleep disorder known as Hallucinatory sleep disorder (HSP) is often mistaken for night terrors because it has some similarities to night terrors. Night terrors can run in families. They are...
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Posted on May 29, 2010

Restless Legs A Common Sleep Disorder

Thanks to the media restless legs syndrome (RLS) is becoming recognized by more individuals. RLS disturbs the sleep of not only the person who has it but their bed partner as well because the individual besides RLS can also have spastic limb movements that can disturb the sleep of both individuals. The...
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Posted on May 27, 2010

How Sleep Disorders Affect Your Family

Having a rare sleep disorder is certainly no fun; you often don’t get adequate sleep, and since the sleep disorder is rare it can sometimes be difficult to get proper treatment. Since many rare sleep disorders are quite disruptive, your sleep disorder may actually be harder on the family members living...
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Posted on May 21, 2010

How Sleep Disorders Effect You

Sleep disorder are more than just annoying. You need sleep in order to function sufficiently throughout the day. Without a good night’s sleep you may not be able to perform whatever duties you are responsible for because your cognitive ability will be adversely affected. You may also be physically...
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Posted on May 18, 2010

You May Not Know

Many people who have a rare sleep disorder aren’t even aware of their condition. After all, the activity involved with the sleep disorder – whether it is wandering around, eating, acting out aggressively – often occur while the person is asleep, so unless they piece the clues together they...
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