Fibromyalgia (FM) and transformed migraine (TM) are common chronic pain disorders. The authors estimated the prevalence of FM in 101 patients with TM, and analyzed its relationship to depression, anxiety, and insomnia. FM was diagnosed in 35.6% of cases. Patients with FM had more insomnia, were older, and had headaches that were more incapacitating than patients without FM. Insomnia and depress...

Franz Kafka: An emblematic case of co-occurrence of sleep and psychiatryc disorders Medical literature robustly supports a close link between sleep disorders and psychiatric disorders. Recently, the co-occurrence of sleep dysfunctions and psychotic experiences (particularly insomnia with paranoia) has been reported, although the causal relationship is still unclear [1]. Moreover, Reeve et al. [...

Insomnia is the most common psychiatric symptom that older adults report to their physicians. The vast majority of the existing literature on insomnia and psychiatric co-morbidity has focused on depression; little research has been conducted on the association between anxiety and insomnia in late life. It is essential to investigate this link because anxiety disorders are common among older peo...

OBJECTIVE Behavioral insomnia and feeding difficulties are 2 prevalent conditions in healthy young children. Despite similarities in nature, etiology, prevalence, and age distribution, the association between these 2 common disorders in young children has not been examined thus far. PATIENTS AND METHODS Children aged 6 to 36 months with either behavioral insomnia or feeding disorders were rec...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Disrupted sleep is one of the prominent but often overlooked presenting symptoms in the clinical course of psychotic disorders. The aims of this study were to examine the prevalence of sleep disturbances, particularly insomnia and nightmares, and their prospective associations with the risk of suicide attempts in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. METHODS A natur...

Bedtime struggles, delayed sleep onset, and problematic night wakings are extremely common in the pediatric population, and have a significant impact on quality of life of both children and caregivers. This article reviews the research and clinical nosology of childhood insomnia, prevalence, and etiologic factors in infants, children, and adolescents. Clinical presentation, evaluation, and trea...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are particularly common in the primary care setting, and are intimately interlinked with depression. OBJECTIVE This article aims to review the relationship between sleep and depression, with an emphasis on the foundation and clinical salience of this relationship. DISCUSSION Depression is the most common cause of insomnia, and insomnia is highly prevalent in depre...

Background and Aims: Insomnia is a risk factor for the development of arterial hypertension, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiac rhythm disorders, myocardial infarction. At same time, insomnia one most frequent non-cardiac complaints in patients with cardiovascular diseases. The aim work was to study presence possible relationships between level blood lipids.