Chronic sleep disorders. Informodiagnostics and informotherapy

AUTHORS : Kobylyanskaya R.N. | Kobylyansky V.Ya.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Research Institute of Informotherapy, Kiev, Ukraine

YEAR : 2003 | Category : Educational

Sleep disturbance is an important problem in modern medicine. The relevance and social importance of the problem is determined by its impact on the quality of life, treatment costs, direct and indirect economic losses. It is known that sleep is an adaptation process that suppresses activity during the period of the lowest availability of food, the threat of sharp fluctuations in external conditions. Sleep reduces daily metabolic costs by imposing a change in activity on the body and is an expression of an internal instinctive need [7].

From a physiological point of view, sleep is one of the most important restorative functions of the body. Even one sleepless night significantly affects the regulation of the work of various organs and systems, reduces the effectiveness of immune defense, impairs the ability to perform professional and social functions. Despite the fact that sleep, as a phenomenon, has long attracted the attention of many scientists of various specialties (even the area of medical knowledge – sleep medicine – is highlighted), much in the mechanisms of sleep remains unclear.