Insomnia associated with circadian rhythm disturbances. Treatment of circadian rhythm disturbances

The course of circadian rhythm disturbance . The human biological rhythm driver (the so-called biological clock) is located in the suprachiasmal nucleus of the hypothalamus. The failure of the biological clock leads to circadian rhythm disturbances, which is most often manifested by insomnia. Violations of circadian rhythms are clinically characterized by normal duration and…

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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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