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• The Train of the "hypo-sleep" syndrome

  18 July 2007

  The "hypo-sleep" syndrome punctuates the patients’ past medical history through a (quite stereotyped) sequence of events.
  These steps follow each other like the different carriages of a train, from the first "tonics" till the unavoidable "pills of happiness", and go through the whole medical system’s circuits.
  The "train of the hypo-sleep syndrome" is the illustration that summarizes, in our opinion, the main evolving stages of tiredness.
  This natural evolution depends on the conjunction (...)

• The alarm system

  17 July 2007

  Tiredness can express through a real sensation of danger that stands for a sign of alarm in a context of decompensation of the sleep balance.

• Interactive screening test

  17 July 2007

  Interactive test for the screening of sleep pathologies
  The test is to be done in two tenses:
  Here are nine items of general screening. If it is necessary, you will be redirected to the diagnosis main lines questionnaire. It is a list of 47 items which you must take time to read with attention (5 min) to select only those that concern you.
  Thank you for giving in your forename, age and gender, to validate (anonymously) the statistic use of the (...)

• Sleep-wake pathologies

  15 July 2007

  There are four reasons to know about sleep : insomnia, sleepiness, the need to adapt to life rhythms, and the understanding of the mecanismes that regulate the sleep-wake rhythms .

• Stress or Life events

  15 July 2007

  In sleep medicine, the notion of stress is, in our opinion, too restrictive.
  All the events of life possess a "somno-toxic" effect but their impact on sleep efficiency is often independent of their objective intensity.
  "There’s nothing wrong with you, it is probably stress..."
  "Yes, I know, you understand, that’s because I have some problems..."
  All events of life possess their own « somno-toxic » effect but their impact on sleep efficiency is often independent of their objective intensity. (...)

• General medicine

  14 July 2007

  Definition of the neologism « hypo-sleep syndrome » designed to place sleep at the center of pathologies described as functional or psychosomatic.

• Interesting websites

  14 July 2007

  Several links to (non commercial) websites recommended by « sommeil-mg.net ».

• Copyleft

  14 July 2007

  
  The content of this website is under copyleft licence, which means it is free from rights of reproduction.

• Sites about sleep

  14 July 2007

  Several french or english websites on sleep to learn more and retrieve other scientific sources.
  SFRS
  The site of the French Society of Sleep Research and Medicine. (SFRMS), the learned society that gathers most of the French specialists of sleep (mostly the hospital neurologists and the lung specialists of the SPLF, the French language society of lung specialty). Sleep, Dreams and arousal
  On this website of the University of Lyon, feel free to consult a (...)

• Introduction

  14 July 2007

  Information and tools to understand sleep better and stay in a good shape.

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