Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome. Fatal family insomnia

Gerstman-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome is a hereditary prion pathology that bears a family character. Compared with Kreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, people of a younger age get sick (on average, Schlet earlier).  The duration of the incubation period of Gerstman-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome varies between 5 ~ 30 years. Typical is the gradual loss of reflexes from the lower extremities, swallowing disorders,…

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Sleeping pills. Idiopathic insomnia

The most widely used drugs in this group are benzodiazepines . Recently, a new class of hypnotics, imidazopyridines, for example, zolpidem, has been used to treat insomnia. Drugs are not prescribed daily, but only several times a week, in order to help the patient, exhausted by insomnia, sleep. The choice of sleeping pills is determined…

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Sleep disturbances. Insomnia. Psychophysiological insomnia

Sleep disorders are common. It has been estimated that approximately 10 million Americans have visited a doctor at least once for sleep. Such patients complain of three types of disorders: insomnia, drowsiness during the day, and pathological events occurring in a dream — movements, sensations, or complex behavioral reactions.  In the international classification of…

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What to do before going to bed to sleep well?

Full sound sleep is necessary for normal life. But sometimes there are disturbances associated with sleep. For example, insomnia or sensitive light sleep. How to cope with a similar condition? What to do before going to bed to quickly fall asleep and not wake up several times in the middle of the night?   What should be…

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