The importance of sleep to overall health and well-being is becoming increasingly
appreciated; however, clinicians may not have a sound understanding of the fundamentals …

Although sleep patterns change with age, it is the change in the ability to sleep that
precipitates sleep complaints in older adults. Waking not rested, waking too early, trouble …

Insomnia and psychiatric disorders frequently occur together. Epidemiological studies have
revealed that individuals with insomnia are more likely to have clinically significant …

There are a number of ways to classify sleep disorders, and indeed it may be some small
comfort to the psychiatric community that our brethren in sleep research struggle with …

New medications to induce sleep do not appear very often, but within the past decade,
several such agents have been found to be effective, as well as safer and better tolerated …

INTRODUCTION Insomnia and psychiatric disorders frequently occur together.
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that between approximately 25% and 50% of …

Insomnia is a disorder characterized by chronic sleep disturbance associated with daytime
disability or distress, such as memory impairment and fatigue, that occurs despite adequate …