Periodic limb movement disorder

Clinical Write-up #1 Description: Follow-up after a full-night in lab sleep study performed to evaluate him for daytime fatigue and insomnia. This patient presents with history of sleep disruption and daytime sleepiness with fatigue. His symptoms are multifactorial. REASON FOR VISIT: This 52-year-old veteran returns to clinic for follow-up after a full-night in lab sleep study performed to evaluate him for daytime fatigue and insomnia. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: The veteran presented initially

Introduction Huntington’s disease (HD) is monogenic neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, cognitive and psychiatric abnormalities. It consists of two types: adult onset and juvenile onset. The most common form is adult onset in which a person’s symptoms usually occur between 35-44 years old with a mean survival time of 15-20 years after onset, while the less common form known as the juvenile form begins in adolescence with a mean survival time of 10-15 years after onset.1 Clinical

As far as the sleeping disorders are concerned, they involve the difficulties that are associated to sleeping. When an individual has difficulty in falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at wrong times, falling asleep unnecessarily, or shows other abnormal sleep behaviors, he/she is said to have a sleep disorder. Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome The Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome or CCHS is categorized as a parasomnia. Such sleep disorders are the symptoms of central

between 20-25 years old and have a BMI within the normal range for their height and weight (18.5-24.5 Kg/m^). The subjects all had regular times that they went to bed and woke up and none reported having any history of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea or periodic limb movement, substance abuse,

difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep. Several surveys have tried to pin down the exact cause of sleep problems. Of 1,000 households in Los Angeles, one third had someone with current problems, and in 42 percent someone had suffered from sleep disorders at sometime. Some doctor's polls have been revealing yet somewhat disparate. In one serve, roughly 19 percent of the patients seen by the 3,000 doctors had complaints of some type of insomnia. That figure may actually understate the case, for

Introduction: Sleep is as essential to the human body as food and water, but sometimes sleep quality and quantity is inadequate and this is known as sleep deprivation (SD). Sleep deprived people are sleepy and fatigued making them prone to accidents, impairing their judgement and they are more likely to make mistakes and bad decisions. Not sleeping for 24 hours reduces hand-to-eye coordination, which can be compared to having a blood alcohol content of 0.1 and contributes to road accidents and work

14-year-old African American child who just seems too tall, is referred to genetic clinic. A physical exam revealed the following parameters and features: Height = 6 ft, 4 in Weight = 125 lb Head circumference = 54 cm Arm span = 85 in Upper and lower limbs: Joint laxity and arachnodactyly Chest: Pectus excavatum Heart: Soft systolic murmur at the apex Abdomen: Soft, no hepatosplenomegaly, no masses An ophthalmologic evaluation showed ectopia lentis and myopia. A cardiologic examination revealed a

particular, elder adults are affected in larger numbers to a more extensive depth of issues. “However, aging does not mean elders should encounter sleep disorders; it merely increases the possibility that more elders will seek help to manage the problem” (Song, Hollenbeck, Blair, Schatzkin, Chen. 2012. p.316) By understanding possible causes for sleep disorders, what kinds of physiological effects this has on the aged anatomy, and the types of problems that appear in the psychological aspect, it becomes

Parkinson’s Disease (from hereon PD) is an extrapyramidal disorder characterized primarily by massive idiopathic degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, resulting in greatly decreased levels of dopamine in the striatum. The diagnosis, which is essentially a clinical judgment due to the lack, thus far of a simple diagnostic test, has historically been on the basis of the presence of at least two of the three main features of PD: bradykinesia (or akinesia or hypokinesia), rigidity

Pain Syndrome (CRPS), previously known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD), is a chronic neuro-inflammatory disorder (Sebastian, 2011). This disorder is characterized by persistent, on-going pain and disability. According to the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDA), up to two hundred thousand people in the United States are affected with the disorder every year (“Telltale Signs and Symptoms of CRPS/RSD,” n.d.). Although anyone can be diagnosed with this syndrome, it