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01-03-2011 | Review

Insomnia: Neurophysiological and NeuropsychologicalApproaches

Author: Célyne H. Bastien

Published in: Neuropsychology Review | Issue 1/2011

Abstract

Insomnia is a symptom, a syndrome and a comorbid disorder. Its diagnosis relies on subjective reports from the afflicted individual and is defined as difficulties in initiating sleep, maintaining sleep, waking up too early or non-restorative sleep. However, insomnia and especially, primary insomnia, has received much attention in insomnia research with the use of objective measures. Insomnia, its peculiarities, most frequent subtypes and two most prominent models will first be briefly introduced. Then, insomnia will be reviewed according to results obtained with the use of neurophysiological measures as basic/traditional as polysomnography to more sophisticated ones such as power spectral analysis, neuroimaging, cyclic alternating patterns and event-related potentials. In addition, a review of the discrepancies between subjective and objective reports of cognitive alterations through neuropsychological testing is offered. The need to combine measures is then highlighted in conclusion.

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Title: Insomnia: Neurophysiological and NeuropsychologicalApproaches
Author: Célyne H. Bastien
Publication date: 01-03-2011
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Neuropsychology Review / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 1040-7308
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6660
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-011-9160-3

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