Stress is a physiological neurohormonal reaction to external and internal influences aimed at eliminating the consequences of the action of “damaging” factors, leading to a violation of the integrative activity of the brain and other body systems, and as a result, to a decrease in certain functional capabilities of a…
The association of epileptic seizures with sleep was noted over a century ago. Daytime forms of seizures (in wakefulness) had 40% of patients, nighttime (during sleep) – 25% of patients. In other cases, seizures occurred independently of sleep or wakefulness. The relationship between the course of epilepsy and the movement of the lunar…
These disorders are diverse and differ significantly in structure from sleep disorders in adults. Their prevalence at the age of 1-5 years is 25%. Most often, children have PARASOMNIES (various phenomena that occur during sleep) and INSOMNII (sleep initiation and maintenance disorders). The most interesting and more common are parasomnias . Dreaming . It is the uttering of…
Very often, waking up, we remain for a long time at the mercy of strange, bizarre, and sometimes frightening images, pictures or events experienced in a dream. Who are these characters that inhabit our dreams? Aliens of the otherworldly, unknown to us world or part of our internal structure, our “I”? And the…
Sleep can be defined as “a special genetically determined state of the human body (and warm-blooded animals, ie mammals and birds), characterized by a natural sequential change of certain polygraphic pictures in the form of cycles, phases and stages” (VM Kovalzon ). This complex definition of sleep testifies, firstly, that sleep is…
One of the main questions that have worried physiologists since the time of I.P. Pavlov is the existence of a “sleep center” in the brain. Direct study of neurons involved in the regulation of sleep-wakefulness has shown that the normal functioning of the thalamus- the cortical system of the brain, which provides the entire…
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a condition characterized by unpleasant, painful sensations in the lower extremities, which appear mainly at rest (more often in the evening and at night) and force the patient to make movements that facilitate them, which lead to sleep disturbance. Medstatistiki argues that in the world from 10 to 25% of all…
Bruxism – paroxysmal contractions of the masticatory muscles that periodically occur in a dream, accompanied by clenching of the jaws and grinding of teeth. Bruxism is observed, according to research, in 1-3% of the population, both adults and children. The clinical picture of the disease is a sudden grinding of teeth that…
Narcolepsy – a disease of the central nervous system which led to a sleep disorder that is characterized by daytime attacks of irresistible sleepiness and sudden sleep in in the normal waking time, as well as bouts of cataplexy , that is, the sudden loss of muscle tone with clear consciousness, insomnia, sleep at night, appearances…
The least common but one of the strangest and most frightening sleep disorders is sleepwalking or somnambulism. Surely many of us in childhood heard stories about “sleepwalkers” who came out the window or simply wandered sleepily down the street in their night clothes. What is it? In medical literature, the term “somnambulism”…