Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Disorders of Sleep
- Explanations for insomnia
- Disorder characterised
by difficulty
falling/maintaing sleep -
not time, but how
refreshed they feel
after sleep
- Primary insomnia -
insomnia not caused by
another health condition
- Idiopathic insomnia -
occurs at a young
age, normally for life
- Brain abnormality
controlling
sleep/wake cycle
- Sleep State misperception -
thinks they've slept for less
than they really have
- Dement - insomniacs
overestimated time
taken to fall asleep x4
- Due to
cognitive
distortions
in thinking
- Zammit et al - cognitive
impairment - decreased
concentration, memory &
problem solving
- Psychophysiological
insomnia
- Anxiety
induced
insomnia.
Vicious cycle
trying harder to
sleep, not
being able to
- Dauvillers - 72.7% primary
insomniacs had familial
insomnia issues,
compared to 24.1% control
- Hyperarousal of the
brain makes falling
asleep difficult
- Secondary insomnia -
insomnia due to an
existing issue, i.e
medication, psychiatric
condition or
environmental
problems
- Parasomnias
- Sleep aponea - temporary
inability to breathe. CO2
builds up in blood, sensed
by chemoreceptors which
wakes you up
- Asthma may increase risk
- Restless leg syndrome -
uncontrollable urge to move legs,
causing extended wakefulness -
dopamine release thought to
effect muscles
- Possible causes: anemia & kidney failure
- Melatonin
levels drop with
age - very little
production by
60
- Depression can
often cause insomnia
- Lichtein et al -
Depression must
precede insomnia
to show secondary
causality
- PER3 - clock gene,
influences sleep
characteristics
- Riemann et al
- imbalances
in brainstem
network can
be inherited
- Zammit et al -
tiredness
causes ~ 1,500
road traffic
deaths a year
- Breslau et al -
increased risk of drug
& alcohol abuse
- Spielman & Glovinsky -
genetic factors
predispose you,
environmental factors
bring about insomnia.
Diathesis stress
- Expectations of
sleep problems
can itself bring
on insomnia -
self-fulfilling
prophecy
- Morin et al -
women
diagnosed
with
insomnia
more than
men
- Difficult to isolate
factors in research,
often multifactorial
causes of insomnia -
hard to conduct
meaningful research
- Dement - insomnia is not
a sleep disorder, it is a
symptom of several factors
- Attribution therapy gets
individuals to think
differently about the
causes of their insomnia
- Getting
insomniacs to
fall asleep in
front of the TV
an effective
method of
increasing
sleep
- Other sleep disorders
- Narcolepsy
- Lehrmann &
Weiss - sudden
attacks disguise
sexual fantasies
- Lacks
scientific
credibility -
not
recognised
- Antibodies
attack &
destroy body
cells that
produce
hypocretin -
low levels
- Hypocretin can be
used in treatment,
or normal cells can
be transplanted
- HLA variant
(autoimmune
response)
common in
narcoleptics
- Not in all cases
- Lin et al - mutant gene on chromosome 12 of dogs
affecting HLA production. Also found in humans
- Mignot - narcolepsy not an inherited disorder - not in MZ twins
- Brain injury, diet or stress possible factors
- Malfunction of
REM system
narcoleptics
match REM sleep
characteristics -
paralysis,
hallucinations
(daytime REM
sleep)
- Vogel - REM patterns beginning
of a narcoleptic episode
- Siegel - same brain activity in a narcoleptic
dog during an attack as in REM sleep
- There is generally little support
- Sleep walking
- Sleep walker is asleep but
engaged in conscious actions
- EEG shows delta waves
(SWS) and beta waves
(consciousness) present
- Awakened
by arousal is
incomplete
- Usually in
stages 3/4 -
deepest sleep
- Jules lowe - killed his father
and claimed he was sleep
walking. Had history of sleep
walking and was never
violent. Acquitted of murder.
Suffering insane automatism.
- Most common in
children but can
suffer at any age
- Most tend to outgrow
behaviour at puberty
- May be more common
in children due to
increase nREM sleep
- Oliviero - motor activity
in SWS isn't fully
developed in children
- Bassetti - 50% sleepwalking
patients had HLA variant (HLA
DQB1*5) compared to 24% in a
control. May be a possible
genetic link
- Lecendreux et al -
50% concordance in
MZ twins, 15% DZ
- Broughton -
10x more
prevalent in
first degree
relatives,
compared to
population
- Zadre et al - Sleep
deprivation led to
an increase in
sleep walking
between 50%-90%
- diathesis stress
- Individual differences