TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Sleep and traumatic brain injury JO - Sleep medicine clinics A1 - Baumann, Christian R. SP - 19 EP - 23 VL - 11 IS - 1 N2 - Post-traumatic sleep-wake disturbances are frequent and often chronic complications after traumatic brain injury. The most prevalent sleep-wake disturbances are insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and pleiosomnia, (ie, increased sleep need). These disturbances are probably of multifactorial origin, but direct traumatic damage to key brain structures in sleep-wake regulation is likely to contribute. Diagnosis and treatment consist of standard approaches, but because of misperception of sleep-wake behavior in trauma patients, subjective testing alone may not always suffice.

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