Dyssomnia

In medical terminology, dyssomnia is the generic term for sleep behavior that deviates from the norm (sleep disorder) . It can be a

• Too little , for example, difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep (insomnia) or a
• Too much sleep, for example an increased need for sleep (hypersomnia).

The problem with this classification is the fact that there is no scientifically exact quantification for the necessary amount of sleep. In many sleep disorders that occur as a result of an underlying disease, symptoms of insomnias, hypersomnias, parasomnias and sleep-related breathing disorders can occur side by side.

In an earlier version of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD), the ICSD-R used until 2005, insomnic and hypersomnic diseases were included in a group of dyssomnias.

As Protodyssomnien mainly in infants and in children up to preschool strong common behavioral initiating and maintaining sleep are called. More about this in the article sleep training .

See also

• Sleep disorder
• Addiction to sleep
• Sleep efficiency

literature

• S1 guidelines for non-organic sleep disorders (F51) of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (DGKJP). In: AWMF online (as of 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ S3 guideline for non-restful sleep / sleep disorders of the German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (DGSM). In: AWMF online (as of 2009)

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