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A blossary on different disorders of sleep.

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Restless legs syndrome (RLS) also known as Willis-Ekbom disease (WED) or Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome, is a neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move one's body to stop ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Nocturnal enuresis' or nighttime urinary incontinence, commonly called bedwetting or sleepwetting, is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control usually occurs. ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Nocturia, also called nycturia, is defined as the complaint that the individual has to wake at night one or more times for voiding. Its causes are varied and, in many patients, difficult to ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

A night terror, sleep terror or pavor nocturnus is a parasomnia disorder, causing feelings of terror or dread, and typically occurring in the first few hours of sleep during stage 3 or 4 non-rapid ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Narcolepsy, also known as hypnolepsy, is a chronic neurological disorder caused by autoimmune destruction of hypocretin-producing neurons inhibiting the brain's ability to regulate sleep-wake ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Insomnia, or sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or to stay asleep as long as desired. nsomnia is most often thought of as both a medical sign and a ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

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