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Neuroimaging of Sleep and Sleep Disorders

A. Landtblom

Published 2014 in Frontiers in Neurology

ABSTRACT

Sleep physiology is a field of increasing importance because the recent awareness of how sleep affects us all, whether it is good or bad. Sleep disorders have a big impact on daily life and functioning, but this is true, also for other disorders that are not primarily associated with sleep disturbances. Subsequently, several disorders should be investigated and treated for sleep symptoms because these can be frequent. Examples here are Parkinson’s disease with frequent daytime sleepiness and insomnia. Also, epilepsy is frequently connected to disturbed night sleep in a complex way: antiepileptic drugs can be sedative, but seizures can also occur at night and disturb the night sleep. A focus on increased sleep health for persons with epilepsy can improve seizure control and should be included in future follow up of such patients. Of course, the impact of sleep deprivation on driving is a well-known problem that often concerns doctors, for example, in common diseases like obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, OSAS, as well as other chronic conditions, also regarding medications, with an impact on alertness. Naturally, sleep effects in healthy persons are of great importance in the society, concerning both safety and quality of life. Besides medicine, new fields also have emerged that do not primarily link to pathological conditions. The effects of sleep deprivation on economic decision making constitute an example of research that reveals how sleep can affect human behavior.

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