Sleep Problems: Diagnosis, Biomarkers, Interventions, and Treatments

Download or read book Sleep Problems: Diagnosis, Biomarkers, Interventions, and Treatments written by Haitham Jahrami and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep medicine is a burgeoning field, owing to the fact that several sleep disorders may cause and/or exacerbate serious conditions like psychiatric disorders, cardiovascular disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and obesity and lead to an overall reduction of quality of life. Also, poor sleep increases community costs due to increased motor vehicle accidents and loss in productivity. Furthermore, while chronic sleep deprivation leads to a significant loss of quality of life, short-term sleep deprivation is a powerful therapeutic option for depression - which emphasises the very complex and still not fully understood interaction between the physiology of sleep and psychiatric disorders.