The National Sleep Foundation seventy million people in the United States suffer from sleep disorders. About 40 million of these suffer from acute sleep disorders, including circadian rhythm sleep disturbance.
Consider Dan, a 23-year old male complaining of insomnia. He can’t fall asleep at night and habitually arrives at work later than his employer’s 8 a.m. starting time. Does Dan have depression, situational insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea or a circadian rhythm disturbance? Or does he just want to start work late?
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Neuroscience researchers at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, located in Singapore, have shown for the first time what happens to the visual perceptions of healthy but sleep-deprived volunteers who fight to stay awake, like people who try to drive through the night.
This study has implications for a whole range of people who have to struggle through night work, from truckers to on-call doctors.
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Vanda, Pharmaceuticals, Proof-of-Concept, Phase II, clinical testing, VSF-173, excessive sleepiness, maintenance of wakefulness tests, MWT, modafinil, Provigil, Nuvigil, narcolepsy, polysomnography, PSG, Mihael Polymeropoulos, shift work sleep disorder, neuro-degenerative disorders, sleep disorders, sleepiness, excessive sleepiness, problem sleepiness.
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