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Sleep and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Journal article

Sleep and Traumatic Brain Injury.

  • Baumann CR Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Frauenklinikstrasse 26, Zurich 8091, Switzerland. Electronic address: christian.baumann@usz.ch.
  • 2016-03-15
Published in:
  • Sleep medicine clinics. - 2016
Excessive daytime sleepiness
Histamine
Insomnia
Pleiosomnia
Traumatic brain injury
Animals
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
Humans
Sleep
Sleep Wake Disorders
English Post-traumatic sleep-wake disturbances are frequent and often chronic complications after traumatic brain injury. The most prevalent sleep-wake disturbances are insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and pleiosomnia, (i.e., increased sleep need). These disturbances are probably of multifactorial origin, but direct traumatic damage to key brain structures in sleep-wake regulation is likely to contribute. Diagnosis and treatment consist of standard approaches, but because of misperception of sleep-wake behavior in trauma patients, subjective testing alone may not always suffice.
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  • English
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