Sleep Disorders 101

A recent survey of over 40,000 people worldwide has confirmed the best place to sleep: people averaging 7 to 8 hours average overnight will be better than people sleeping more or less at night.

Sleep disorder cases are increasing. Sleep apnea was not a common illness several decades ago. A big budget is used to study better techniques for sleep disorders. Success rarely happens. However, the introduction of smartphones into the medical industry has brought a new era of medicine. Penetration of large-scale smartphone platforms and their routine activities creates innovative application opportunities, especially in health monitoring. As you know, most smartphones are equipped with advanced cameras, sensors, and microphones. Combined with appropriate software, these devices can perform very complex functions, once part of dedicated hardware and software. This is the case for new diagnostic applications developed by researchers.

Three major types of sleep disorders are used in the International Sleep Disorder Classification (ICSD). These categories are Sleep Disorder, Sleeping Sleep and Medical - Mental Sleep Disorder. Sleep disorder is a disease that causes insomnia and excessive drowsiness. These are the main diseases related to sleep disorders. These diseases include primary insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and various circadian rhythm disorders. Insomnia is caused by unwanted body phenomena occurring during sleep. Usually, they are awakening, partial arousals and disturbances to the transition of the sleep stage. These diseases include sleepwalking, sleep phobia (nocturnal phobia), rem behavioral disorder, and rhythmical dyskinesia. ICSD is a revision of the original classification scheme, which is necessary for sleep-wake disorder diagnostic classification (DCSAD).

Partial arousal during sleep, exercise or behavior related to sleep or sleep may affect sleep maintenance. Insomnia is generally divided into four groups: arousal disorder, sleep-arousal transition disorder, rapid sleep parasitosis, and nonspecific parasitic diseases. (Thorpy, Sleep Disorders Medicine, 1994, p. 191)