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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Neurologic Manifestations > Sleep Wake Disorders > Dyssomnias
Nervous System Diseases > Neurologic Manifestations > Sleep Wake Disorders > Dyssomnias
Mental Disorders > Sleep Wake Disorders > Dyssomnias

Preferred term

Dyssomnias  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Adjustment Sleep Disorder
  • Adjustment Sleep Disorders
  • Eating-Drinking Syndrome, Nocturnal
  • Eating-Drinking Syndromes, Nocturnal
  • Environmental Sleep Disorder
  • Environmental Sleep Disorders
  • Extrinsic Sleep Disorder
  • Extrinsic Sleep Disorders
  • Limit Setting Sleep Disorder
  • Limit-Setting Sleep Disorder
  • Limit-Setting Sleep Disorders
  • Nocturnal Eating Drinking Syndrome
  • Nocturnal Eating-Drinking Syndrome
  • Nocturnal Eating-Drinking Syndromes
  • Sleep Disorder, Extrinsic
  • Sleep Disorders, Adjustment
  • Sleep Disorders, Environmental
  • Sleep Disorders, Extrinsic
  • Sleep Disorders, Limit-Setting
  • Syndrome, Nocturnal Eating-Drinking
  • Syndromes, Nocturnal Eating-Drinking

Scope note

  • A broad category of sleep disorders characterized by either hypersomnolence or insomnia. The three major subcategories include intrinsic (i.e., arising from within the body) (SLEEP DISORDERS, INTRINSIC), extrinsic (secondary to environmental conditions or various pathologic conditions), and disturbances of circadian rhythm. (From Thorpy, Sleep Disorders Medicine, 1994, p187)

History note

  • 2000

In other languages

  • dyssomniat

    Finnish

  • dyssomnia
  • ulkosyntyinen unihäiriö
  • ulkosyntyiset unihäiriöt
  • Dyssomnier

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020920

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