Pain is one of the leading causes decline in quality life. When pain syndromes occur, a person may experience unpleasant sensory sensations and concomitant disorders, which can lead to aggravation sleep disturbances. According experimental studies, increased sensation with reduced duration occurs due opioid, serotonergic, noradrenergic, dopaminergic antinociceptive systems dysfunction. In clini...

Objectives: To determine the incidence of sleep disturbances, including insomnia in healthcare professionals dealing with COVID-19 patients. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted at inpatient infectious disease units, emergency department and ICU (for patients), Pakistan Institute Medical Sciences (PIMS) from February 2022 to April 2022. All individuals participating were professio...

OBJECTIVE Insomnia can be broadly defined as difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep, or sleep that is not refreshing or of poor quality with negative effect on daytime function. Insomnia can be a primary condition or comorbid to an underlying disorder. Subjective measures of insomnia used in population studies, usually based on complaints of unsatisfactory sleep, put the prevalence at about...

Introduction: Sleep disorders (SD) are common dialysis patients and can impact their quality of life. In previous studies, black ethnicity was associated with higher incidence of SD but a few data are available in African patients. This study aimed to describe prevalence and risk factors of SD among Senegalese dialysis patients. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study between February 15t...

Loss of hypocretin neurons leads to sleep attacks and cataplexy in a rare sleep disorder known as narcolepsy. The hypocretin system stabilizes states of wakefulness and sleep through complex neural pathways. Insomnia, on the other hand, is a common sleep disorder characterized as difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep. Current treatment options for insomnia are limited to cognitive-behavior...

Introduction In addition to psychological distress, neurological and neurocognitive manifestations, the COVID19 pandemic its medium- long-term consequences combine other risk factors alter sleep. Objectives To screen for sleep disorders identify epidemiological clinical correlated with this disorder in post patients. Methods This is a descriptive analytical cross-sectional study that took place...

Mood disorders and insomnia are often comorbid conditions, sharing a complex and bi-directional relationship. Complicating the situation, mood stabilizers can disrupt sleep in a variety of different ways depending on a drug’s mechanism of action, dosage level, and timing of administration. The treatment of comorbid depression and insomnia can be achieved through the use of a sedating antidepres...

This study evaluated the association between insomnia and menopausal status and the influence of socioeconomic and psychosocial variables on this association in a cross-sectional analysis of 2,190 university employees (the Pró-Saúde Study). A self-administered questionnaire was used, covering menopausal status, complaints of insomnia, common mental disorders, stressful life events, social suppo...