Sleep disorder
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A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning. A test commonly ordered for some sleep disorders is the polysomnogram.
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See also
- Chronotypes
- International Classification of Sleep Disorders
- Junk sleep
- National Sleep Foundation
- Noise health effects
- Polysomnography
- Polysomnographic technician
- Reversed vegetative symptoms
- Sleep hygiene
- Sleep medicine
- Sleep study
- Sundowning (dementia)
- White noise machine
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