disorders of sleep

Disorders of sleep.

Sleep surgery also known as sleep apnea surgery are surgery procedures that performed in order to treat disorders of sleep disordered breathing.

Membership is open to physicians, researchers and other health care professionals who specialize in the study, diagnosis and treatment of disorders of sleep and daytime alertness.

The National Commission Report said that about 40 million Americans suffer from chronic disorders of sleep and wakefulness, such as narcolepsy, sleep apnea and insomnia.

Dr. Czeisler's specialty is sleep disorders, and in a scientific paper in 1991 he pointed out similarities in disorders of sleep and the body clock among the elderly and astronauts.

Some 40 million Americans suffer from chronic disorders of sleep and wakefulness, according to experts from the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in White Plains.

While they might be regarded as disorders of sleep, and will be discussed in the chapters on sleep problems, they are so prevalent, so much a part of normal life, that, like sleepwalking, they deserve a place in any account of normal sleep and dreaming.