title: [Sleep disorders in Internet addiction].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The relationship between sleep disorders and Internet addiction has been little work. Given the importance of these disorders, we felt it appropriate to make a synthesis of available data and to establish causality or accountability between Internet addiction and the onset of sleep disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  A literature review was then performed. We selected scientific articles in English and French, published between 1987 and 2016 by consulting the databases Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and Google Scholar. The words used alone or in combination are as follows: addiction, dependence, Internet, behavioral addiction, sleep.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A computer screen light inhibits melatonin secretion and acts as a real external desynchronizer circadian rhythm resulting in a withdrawal syndrome or syndrome sleep phase delay when the stress of social awakening is suppressed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We assume here that the specific treatment of addictive disorders have an influence on sleep disorders.
authors.affiliation: Cabinet Carnot, 26, avenue Carnot, 75017 Paris, France; AP-HP, France université Paris VII, hôpital Bichat, faculté de médecine, service de psychiatrie, addictologie, et tabacologie, 75018 Paris, France. Electronic address: aymericpetit@hotmail.fr.
authors.forename: Aymeric
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Petit
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, hôpital Paul-Brousse, centre d'enseignement, de recherche, et de traitement des addictions, 94800 Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Karila
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, France université Paris VII, hôpital Bichat, faculté de médecine, pôle santé publique, recherche clinique et information médicale, 75018 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Candice
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Estellat
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, France université Paris VII, hôpital Bichat, faculté de médecine, service de psychiatrie, addictologie, et tabacologie, 75018 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Delphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moisan
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, hôpital Paul-Brousse, centre d'enseignement, de recherche, et de traitement des addictions, 94800 Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reynaud
authors.affiliation: Université Denis-Diderot Paris 7, hôpital Bichat, centre du sommeil, service de physiologie explorations fonctionnelles multidisciplinaires, 75018 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Pia
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: D'Ortho
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, France université Paris VII, hôpital Bichat, faculté de médecine, service de psychiatrie, addictologie, et tabacologie, 75018 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lejoyeux
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, France université Paris VI, hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, faculté de médecine, service de psychiatrie, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Fanny
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Levy
mesh_terms: D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology*