They are intense episodic physical manifestations that occur in a dream or are exacerbated during sleep. Mostly, parasomnic disorders are found in children, but can also be detected in adults. Parasomnias include night fears, somnambulism, and bruxism. On the night terrors (nightmares) described in…
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A similar disorder is restless legs syndrome. In this case, people complain of unpleasant, sometimes obscure feelings of discomfort, tingling, “crawling goose bumps” in the legs, which resulted in an overwhelming desire to move them. Such sensations are called dysesthesia . More often they appear…
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As a rule, they appear during sleep in the first third of the night and are not remembered (as opposed to nightmares). They are observed in 1-6% of children and in 1% of adults. During the night of fear the child usually…
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Parents are concerned that some children behave peculiarly at any time of the night. They begin to “butt” head cushions or headboard. Sometimes, relying on their hands, children rhythmically swing back and forth, instead of sleeping at night. These phenomena are common in…
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Parents are often worried about poor sleep in children. Bringing them to a neurologist’s appointment, they tell in detail about a wide variety of sleep disorders that cause them concern or even frighten. But not all sleep disorders in children are manifestations…
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Sleep disturbances caused by night work arise due to the desynchronization of the circadian rhythm and sleep-wakefulness due to the need to be active when the body is not ready for this. At night, all physiological parameters of the body are…
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How should we adjust to the time difference when flying from one time zone to another? For the inhabitants of our country, this is an actual problem, because Russia, stretching from east to west, is located in nine time zones.…
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As the circadian rhythm of a person moves further and further forward as he grows older, the older a person becomes, the earlier he goes to bed in the evening. Duration of sleep is still approximately 8 hours and therefore,…
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The interaction of normal healthy sleep with human biological rhythms is discussed in detail in the relevant chapter of the book. This information is directly related to the understanding of the diurnal (circadian) rhythm. If the text of this chapter seems to…
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– before bedtime you need to stay in bed for only 15 minutes and no more. To do this, calculate the time when you need to go to bed. If you think that for a full sleep you need 7 hours, then…
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