Sleep disorders
Symptoms
- Awakening in the night
- Difficulty falling asleep
- Excessive daytime drowsiness
- Loud snoring
- Episodes of stopped breathing
- Sleep attacks during the day
- Daytime fatigue
- Depressed mood
- Anxiety
- Difficulty concentrating
- Apathy
- Irritability
- Loss of memory (or complaints of decreased memory)
- Lower leg movements during sleep
Exams and Tests
- Polysomnography (recording brain activity, muscle activity and breathing during sleep)
- Multiple sleep latency test -- a daytime test that uses polysomnography during multiple brief nap periods
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