Carlos H. Schenck, the lead author of the report and a senior staff psychiatrist at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center in Minneapolis. One example is Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare disorder that causes recurrent bouts of excessive drowsiness and sleep. People with this disorder sleep for stretches of 16 to 24 hours, but when awake, some may become extremely “hypersexual” and uninhibited. “We wanted to call attention to how virtually all known categories of sleep disorders carry a risk for inappropriate sexual behaviors,” said Schenck, who is also author of the book Sleep: The Mysteries, the Problems, and the Solutions.
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More veterans seek treatment for sleep disorders
In fact, studies estimate that approximately 70 to 84 percent of children with ASD might meet the criteria for a comorbid psychiatric disorder. Co-occurring conditions include mental health (anxiety, depression), neurological (seizure disorder), physical (cerebral palsy, atypical gait), and medical (allergies, asthma) conditions. In addition, unusual responses to sensory stimuli, chronic sleep problems , and low muscle tone can occur in individuals with ASD. Most parents have had some experience with a child who has difficulty falling asleep; wakes up frequently during the night, and/or only sleeps a few hours each night. Although temporary sleep difficulties are an expected phase of child development, ongoing and persistent sleep disturbances can have an adverse effect on the child, parents and other family members. Indeed, a childs sleeping problems can quickly become a daily parenting challenge.
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Sleep Disorders, Attention Problems Linked
Traumatic brain injury is also associated with onset of an apnea syndrome. Samantha Camp, sleep lab manager at Metroplex, said there are different types of sleep apnea, which are typically caused by either genetics or obesity. Some people only have it when theyre on their back, some people have it during (rapid eye movement sleep), some people have it the second they fall asleep. It really depends on how theyre sleeping that night, Camp said. It really just depends on the patient. If they got it, they got it. Despite an increase in the number of soldiers seeking treatment for sleep apnea, Camp said its likely because the field is new. Its really only 30 years old or so, Camp said.
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Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
The same group reported improvement in attention deficit scores from 17 to a score of 10, a significant change according to the researchers. In addition, nine of the 16 patients with possible or probable attention deficit disorder, based on having moderate to severe attention deficits scores, improved their attention scores after CPAP. In an interview with WebMD, Risk says sleep apnea is “highly correlated” with attention deficit disorder and that treating apnea can improve attention deficit. However, some apnea patients may continue to have attention deficit problems after CPAP due to “anxiety, depression, or other disorders,” he says. Risk and colleagues also studied smaller groups of people with insomnia. “For those with severe insomnia, we found a high prevalence of anxiety, depression, and neuromuscular disease, such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and neurological disorders,” he says.
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