Insomnia occurring in the context of medical conditions and as a consequence of medication use represents a clinically important and frequently underrecognized category of sleep disturbance that affects a substantial proportion of patients with chronic disease and complicates the management of numerous common medical conditions. The traditional clinical approach to insomnia comorbid with medical conditions […]
Among the diverse factors capable of initiating and perpetuating insomnia, the behavioral patterns that collectively constitute poor sleep hygiene and the irregular sleep schedules that disrupt the biological timing of sleep represent perhaps the most clinically prevalent and most readily modifiable contributors to chronic sleep difficulty. The extraordinary sophistication of the human sleep regulatory system, […]
Insomnia is the most prevalent sleep disorder in the world, affecting between ten and thirty percent of adults with clinically significant symptoms that meet formal diagnostic criteria and up to fifty percent of the general adult population with at least occasional difficulty falling or staying asleep. Among the numerous factors capable of initiating, perpetuating, and […]