In today’s world, insomnia has become a real epidemic. Millions of people, despite the fact that they work and stay awake all day, wander in bed without sleep all night, sleep in fits and starts or wake up long before the alarm rings. The main cause of insomnia is chronic overwork, stress and depression. Therefore,…
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…
Among the huge number of alcoholic beverages, beer stands out in that it has a rather ambiguous attitude. On the network you can find many materials describing both the positive and extremely negative aspects of the use of this drink. Meanwhile, some beer lovers have such a problem – they cannot fall asleep unless…
Insomnia is a condition that requires attention from the doctor, since the treatment of the patient depends not only on the purpose of the drug, but also on understanding its cause and nature. Patients complaining of insomnia are convinced or feel that they are not sleeping long enough. The concept…
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,…
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…
The nature of insomnia is also very complex and it is not easy to understand it differential-diagnostic. Three forms of insomnia can be distinguished : the patient is hard to fall asleep, wakes up in the middle of the night, wakes up early in the morning. a) In most cases, insomnia is psychogenic , but the…
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…
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…
In today’s complex and hectic world, more and more people are experiencing sleep disorders. Overfatigue, an excess of impressions and information, professional problems and family troubles, fears and illnesses – there are many causes of insomnia, far from all of them people can eliminate. In this case, medicines come to the rescue. There…