title: Sleep and Traumatic Brain Injury.
abstract: Post-traumatic sleep-wake disturbances are frequent and often chronic complications after traumatic brain injury. The most prevalent sleep-wake disturbances are insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and pleiosomnia, (i.e., increased sleep need). These disturbances are probably of multifactorial origin, but direct traumatic damage to key brain structures in sleep-wake regulation is likely to contribute. Diagnosis and treatment consist of standard approaches, but because of misperception of sleep-wake behavior in trauma patients, subjective testing alone may not always suffice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Frauenklinikstrasse 26, Zurich 8091, Switzerland. Electronic address: christian.baumann@usz.ch.
authors.forename: Christian R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Baumann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000070642:Brain Injuries, Traumatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D012890:Sleep; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Excessive daytime sleepiness; Histamine; Insomnia; Pleiosomnia; Traumatic brain injury