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Article: With age comes wisdom, but also insomnia.(sleep disorders)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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SAN JUAN, P.R. -- Sleep disorders become more common with increasing age, but effective behavioral and pharmacologic therapies are available, sleep experts said at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
"Most older adults are not being treated for their insomnia, and most older adults won't get a diagnosis of insomnia," despite the high prevalence of the disorder among this age group, said Dr. Phyllis C. Zee, medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
There are several age-related changes in sleep architecture. The number of awakenings during sleep time increases, ...