abstract   background: a significant relationship between psychiatric disorders principally depression and anxiety and insomnia is well-known in general population. ahigh percent of insomnia sufferers report anxiety symptoms. anxiety is also frequently seen in medical patients whom complaints of sleep problems are often prominent.   method: 250 outpatients with various medical complaints partic...

sleep problems are common in childhood, but there are limited studies regarding that in iranian children and awareness of the sleep problems and their complication in iranian parents. we arranged this study in which parents of children attending for a sick visit or routine growth control to assess whether sleep problems are under-reported at general pediatric visits. in a cross - a sectional st...

OVER 30 YEARS AGO, THE FIELD OF PSYCHIATRY FOUND ITSELF STRUGGLING WITH AN IMPRECISE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM THAT RESULTED IN UNRELIABLE DIAGNOSTIC ASSIGNMENTS ACROSS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH SETTINGS. Largely this was due to the absence of explicit operational criteria in the diagnostic manuals published to aid psychiatric research and practice. As a result, diagnostic practice was a highly subjective ...

kleine-levin syndrome is characterized as a periodic hypersomnia crisis as well as dietary and variable significant psychic symptoms. this report describes the finding on an evaluation of a 15- year- old girl with kls. she had amnesia to her episodes. all episodes were correlated with menstrual period.polysomnographic finding of this patient was normal with 5 sleep cycles in sleep architecture ...

in light of the high prevalence of sleep disorders in patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders (ptsd), this study sought to comparing the effect of prazosin and hydroxyzine on sleep quality in this patient group. a total 100 patients suffering from ptsd were assessed (mean age: m = 35.51, sd = 6.41 28% females). next, they were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: ...

OBJECTIVE Sleep disorders are a common and important part of schizophrenia's clinical Picture; however, the number of polysomnography-based studies of schizophrenia is limited and there is a lack of consensus regarding a specific sleep pattern in schizophrenia patients. As such, the aim of the present study was to investigate the sleep architecture in non-medicated schizophrenia patients. MET...

Sleep is defined on the basis of behavioural and physiological criteria dividing it into two states: non rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep which is subdivided into three stages (N1, N2, N3); and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep characterized by rapid eye movements, muscle atonia and desynchronized EEG. Circadian rhythm of sleep-wakefulness is controlled by the master clock located in the suprachias...

AIM In female children with drug-resistant seizures and developmental delay from birth, atypical Rett syndrome caused by mutations in the CDKL5 gene should be considered. Several clinical features resemble classic Rett syndrome. Respiratory and sleep abnormalities are frequently present in Rett syndrome, whereas little is known in patients with CDKL5 mutations. METHOD In four genetically conf...