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Shutterstock. A new study found that attachment to a pet is linked to lower levels of anxiety, but one pet tends to help just a little more than the others. The study was published in JAMA Network ...
Kleine–Levin syndrome. Kleine–Levin syndrome ( KLS) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by persistent episodic hypersomnia accompanied by cognitive and behavioral changes. These changes may include disinhibition, sometimes manifested through hypersexuality, hyperphagia or emotional lability, and other symptoms, such as derealization.
Trichotillomania. Trichotillomania ( TTM ), also known as hair-pulling disorder or compulsive hair pulling, is a mental disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair. [ 2][ 4] A brief positive feeling may occur as hair is removed. [ 5] Efforts to stop pulling hair typically fail.
Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder causes a person's sleep–wake cycle to move around the clock every day, to a degree dependent on the length of the cycle. This is known as free-running sleep. [citation needed] People with the disorder may have an especially hard time adjusting to changes in "regular" sleep–wake cycles, such as vacations ...
First, they recommend encouraging your dog to rest – dogs need 18-20 hours of sleep a day as a general rule, but they’ll probably need more after a stressful event. “Facilitate high quality ...
Fatal insomnia is an extremely rare neurodegenerative prion disease that results in trouble sleeping as its hallmark symptom. [ 2] The majority of cases are familial ( fatal familial insomnia [FFI]), stemming from a mutation in the PRNP gene, with the remainder of cases occurring sporadically ( sporadic fatal insomnia [sFI]).
Excessive daytime sleepiness ( EDS) is characterized by persistent sleepiness and often a general lack of energy, even during the day after apparently adequate or even prolonged nighttime sleep. EDS can be considered as a broad condition encompassing several sleep disorders where increased sleep is a symptom, or as a symptom of another ...
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that impairs the ability to regulate sleep–wake cycles, and specifically impacts REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. [ 1] The pentad symptoms of narcolepsy include excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), sleep related hallucinations, sleep paralysis, disturbed nocturnal sleep (DNS) and cataplexy. [ 1]