sleep medicine
Aids nighttime rest
Sleep medicine is the medical specialty concerned with diagnosing and treating sleep disorders—insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome, and similar conditions.
A sleep medicine specialist may oversee sleep studies, prescribe therapies, or recommend devices like CPAP machines: She was referred to sleep medicine after years of chronic fatigue.
- parasomniasDisruptive sleep-related behaviors
- night terrorsFrightening partial-arousal episodes
- oximetryBlood oxygen level measurement
- insomniaPersistent inability to rest
- circadian rhythmsInternal daily biological cycles
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