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• Sleep-wake diary

  17 November 2007

  The sleep-wake diary offers a synthetic view over the rhythm of rest and activity, as well as sleep-related events.
  Analyzing it helps to understand the ways to naturally reestablish the balance of the sleep clocks and to measure the progress of the results.

• Ocular fatigue

  15 November 2007

  The eye is a self-regulated neurological tool. Its functioning is very sensitive to tiredness.

• Eyelids and tiredness

  15 November 2007

  Blepharospasm (spasm of the eyelids) is, in our opinion, an early sign of a sleep disorder which can lead to errors of diagnosis.

• Stiff neck

  13 November 2007

  Introduction.
  The neck is essentially made of a network of small muscles which work together in order to manage to support the skull’s weight (1 to 2 kg).
  That synergy does not depend from will, there exists an automatic system which purpose is to harmonize those muscles’ contractions with the head’s movements.
  Just like shrouds supporting a bridge, the system depends on a good distribution of the forces. In the context of the hypo-sleep syndrome, it all looks as though tiredness was (...)

• Sleep apnea

  26 October 2007

  Snoring can be a sign of a Sleep Apnea Syndrome (SAS).

• Hypersomnia

  23 October 2007

  Excessive sleepiness caused by hypersomnia

• Alcohol, drugs and sleeping pills

  21 October 2007

  Some active substances possess a sedative power, but the ideal sleeping pill does not exist (yet).

• Lack of sleep

  21 October 2007

  According to a survey made by the TNS Sofres (a French survey enterprise) in 2006 for the Institute for Sleep and Vigilance, "27% of the French people are disturbed by a problem of sleepiness.
  One adult in ten, one teenager in five has a chronic sleep lack." Voluntary sleep deprivation Phase shift syndromes Delayed phase syndrome Advanced phase syndrome Hypernycthemeral syndrome
  The first cause of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is often the least investigated in (...)

• Light therapy

  21 October 2007

  Light is a part of the sleep synchronizers. It is the main "time giver" implicated when it comes to adapting to jetlag

• Normal and pathological hypnograms

  15 October 2007

  General map of the "iconography" section: Assembly for Polysomnography; Sleep characteristics; Normal and pathological hypnograms (you are here); Normal adult sleep Normal child sleep Insomnia Hypersomnia Respiratory events during sleep; Periodic limb movements; Spectral analysis and final report.
  Normal adult sleep
  Graphic layout of a normal adult sleep.
  Each sleep cycle lasts about 100 minutes and is made of slow wave sleep (deeper and (...)

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