Sleepiness
21EDS (excessive daytime sleepiness) — A neurological disorder marked by a sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to sleep. Also known as narcolepsy. It is often associated with cataplexy (a sudden loss of muscle tone and paralysis of voluntary muscles associated with a strong… …
22Epworth Sleepiness Scale — a tool for measuring how sleepy a person is during daytime or working hours, using a scale of 1 to 5 for whether the person is unlikely or likely to fall asleep in a series of situations such as watching television, having a quiet conversation,… …
23Epworth Sleepiness Scale — a questionnaire to assess the likelihood of falling asleep. It is used to help distinguish snoring from obstructive sleep apnoea …
24Somnolence — Sleepiness, the state of feeling drowsy, ready to fall asleep. A person experiencing somnolence is somnolent and is acting somnolently. Somnolence, somnolent, and somnolently go back to the Latin somnus meaning (please don t yawn) sleep. * * *… …
25Narcolepsy — For other uses, see Narcolepsy (disambiguation). Narcolepsy Classification and external resources ICD 10 G47.4 ICD 9 …
26Sleep Wake Activity Inventory — The sleep wake activity inventory (SWAI) is a subjective multidimensional questionnaire intended to measure sleepiness. The instrument The SWAI consists of 59 items that provide six subscale scores: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Nocturnal Sleep,… …
27Sleep medicine — is a medical subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disturbances and disorders. From the middle of the 20th century, research has provided increasing knowledge and answered many questions about sleep wake functioning. [cite… …
28Modafinil — Systematic (IUPAC) name (±) 2 (benzhydrylsulfinyl)acetamide …
29Obstructive sleep apnea — Classification and external resources Obstructive sleep apnea ICD 10 G …
30Sleep — Waking up redirects here. For other uses, see Waking Up (disambiguation). This article is about sleep in general; for specifically non human sleep see Sleep (non human); for other uses, see Sleep (disambiguation). Sleeping child Sleep is a… …
