Insomnia and its impact on physical and mental health

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

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

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiometabolic morbidity; Insomnia; Mortality; Neurocognitive impairment; Physiological hyperarousal; Polysomnography; Poor sleep; Psychiatric morbidity; Psychiatry; Short sleep duration; Sleep disorders

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPERAROUSAL; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; LIFE EVENT; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SLEEP TIME; STRESS; SUICIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; METABOLIC DISEASES; PSYCHOLOGY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; METABOLIC DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84886744269     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-013-0418-8     Document Type: Article

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