https://www.psychdb.com/ 2026-07-31T02:43:48-0700 https://www.psychdb.com/ https://www.psychdb.com/lib/tpl/bootstrap3/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-05-05T10:38:00-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/sleep/2-benign-sleep-phenomena?rev=1620236280&do=diff Benign Sleep Phenomena Primer Benign Sleep Phenomena includes sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations, hypnopompic hallucinations, and hypnagogic jerks. In isolation, these occurrences are benign and not pathological. Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations text/html 2024-02-01T15:40:51-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/sleep/2-insomnia-disorder?rev=1706830851&do=diff Insomnia Disorder Primer Insomnia Disorder is the dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality, with complaints of difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep. Put simply, insomnia is defined as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, even when a person has the chance to do so text/html 2023-06-07T17:36:08-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/sleep/3-hypersomnolence-disorder?rev=1686184568&do=diff Idiopathic Hypersomnia (Hypersomnolence Disorder) Primer Idiopathic Hypersomnia (ICSD-3) or Hypersomnolence Disorder (DSM-5), is a broad diagnosis and includes symptoms of excessive quantity of sleep, deteriorated quality of wakefulness, and sleep inertia. Individuals with this disorder fall asleep quickly and have a high sleep efficiency (>90%). They may have difficulty waking up in the morning, sometimes appearing confused, combative, or ataxic. This prolonged impairment of alertness during … text/html 2022-07-07T12:07:12-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/sleep/4-narcolepsy?rev=1657220832&do=diff Narcolepsy Primer Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by sleepiness with recurrent daytime naps or lapses into sleep. Sleepiness typically occurs daily. Narcolepsy also generally produces cataplexy, which most commonly presents as brief episodes (seconds to minutes) of sudden, bilateral loss of muscle tone precipitated by emotions, typically laughing and joking. Narcolepsy-cataplexy is almost always due to loss of hypothalamic hypocretin (orexin)-producing cells, causing hypocretin de… text/html 2023-06-07T17:28:53-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/sleep/home?rev=1686184133&do=diff Sleep Disorders Primer Sleep Disorders include insomnia disorder, hypersomnolence disorder, narcolepsy, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep arousal disorders, nightmare disorder, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder, breathing-related sleep disorders, circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, restless legs syndrome, and substance/medication-induced sleep disorder. These disorders all result in daytime distress and impairment.<ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-… text/html 2021-05-16T17:53:21-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/sleep/substance-medication?rev=1621212801&do=diff Substance/Medication-Induced Sleep Disorder Primer Substance/medication-induced sleep disorder is a sleep disorder characterized by a severe change to sleeping patterns enough to warrant independent clinical attention and judged to be primarily caused by the pharmacological effects of a substance (i.e., a drug of abuse, a medication, toxin exposure). Depending on the substance involved, one of four types of sleep disturbances is reported. Insomnia type and day time sleepiness type are most com…