Insomnia with short sleep duration: Nosologic, diagnostic, and treatment implications

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 309-322

  Vgontzas, Alexandros N ^a   Fernandez Mendoza, Julio ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiometabolic; Insomnia; Morbidity; Mortality; Neurocognitive; Physiologic hyperarousal; Short sleep duration

Indexed keywords

DOXEPIN; TRAZODONE;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-5; DSM-III-R; DSM-IV-TR; EPISODIC MEMORY; HEALTH; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERTENSION; ICSD-2; INSOMNIA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHASTHENIA; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84883498872     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2013.04.009     Document Type: Review

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