Helping patients who say they cannot sleep. Practical ways to evaluate and treat insomnia.

Abstract:

:Why do some people spend most of the night tossing and turning while others drop off as quickly as a cat in the sun? There are many possible explanations for problems with falling and staying asleep and, sometimes, patients actually get a lot more sleep than they think they do. Each type of insomnia has its own set of symptoms, which can be used, along with appropriate diagnostic tools, to help in identification. In this article, Dr. Attarian describes differential diagnosis and summarizes the best treatment approaches to the common causes of insomnia.

journal_name

Postgrad Med

journal_title

Postgraduate medicine

authors

Attarian HP

doi

10.3810/pgm.2000.03.935

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-03-01 00:00:00

pages

127-30, 133-7, 140-2

issue

3

eissn

0032-5481

issn

1941-9260

journal_volume

107

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