Diseases

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

Disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition.

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Abstract

Disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition.

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27 entry terms
  • DIMS (Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep)
  • Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep
  • Chronic Insomnia
  • Early Awakening
  • Insomnia
  • Insomnia Disorder
  • Nonorganic Insomnia
  • Primary Insomnia
  • Psychophysiological Insomnia
  • Rebound Insomnia
  • Secondary Insomnia
  • Sleep Initiation Dysfunction
  • Sleeplessness
  • Transient Insomnia
  • Awakening, Early
  • Dysfunction, Sleep Initiation
  • Dysfunctions, Sleep Initiation
  • Insomnia Disorders
  • Insomnia, Chronic
  • Insomnia, Nonorganic
  • Insomnia, Primary
  • Insomnia, Psychophysiological
  • Insomnia, Rebound
  • Insomnia, Secondary
  • Insomnia, Transient
  • Insomnias
  • Sleep Initiation Dysfunctions

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

do not confuse with SLEEP DEPRIVATION, being deprived of sleep or prevented from sleeping; usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE

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History Note

2000(1966)

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  1. C10w.886.425w.800.800w
  2. F03w.870.400w.800.800w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007319. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007319
  2. Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia
  3. Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1869874