If you’ve ever suffered even one night of bad sleep, you might relate to feeling so upset about sleeplessness that you want to cry. Insomnia is when that happens night after night. The simplest ...

Thirty-four experts and a literature supervisor got together in order to reach a consensus regarding the definition, diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of insomnia. Insomnia is a subjective ...

I f you struggle with insomnia, a condition that causes trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or both, it can have a profound impact on your quality of life, leading to fatigue, trouble ...

Anyone who has laid awake in bed staring at the clock, mentally calculating how many hours of sleep they will get if they fall asleep right now, knows the struggle of insomnia. The sleep disorder is ...

Insomnia does have considerable documented comorbidity with psychiatric illness. Perhaps as many as 40% of patients with chronic insomnia have a psychiatric disorder, most often depression. In fact, ...

Insomnia is a leading cause of absenteeism, presenteeism (lost productivity when employees are at work), accidents, and errors in the workplace. Overall direct and indirect costs exceed $30 billion ...

This chapter develops the efficacy and safety criteria of the currently available benzodiazepine and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, as well as the characteristics that an ideal hypnotic should have.

Dual orexin receptor antagonists (DORAs) are a type of treatment for chronic insomnia. Studies have found that they may help people fall asleep, stay asleep, or both. Insomnia is a common sleep ...

While insomnia is the most common sleep disorder, a lot of attention in the media is focused on sleep apnea because of its association with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Variations in ...