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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Language: en
LA - en SN - 1556-407X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsmc.2015.10.004 ID - ref1 ER -