Sleep disturbances in patients with schizophrenia : impact and effect of antipsychotics.
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...While a biological rhythm, which is chronically out of sync, can cause serious health problems [18, 65], time-of-day variations have a significant impact on our everyday cognitive performance [56] affecting alertness and fatigue levels....
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...Subjectively reported sleep complaints in mentally disordered people are largely supported by aberrants in polysomnographic analyses (Argyropoulos and Wilson, 2005; Cohrs, 2008; Monti and Monti, 2004; Thase, 2006)....
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...For example, up to 80% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and 40–90% of patients with major depressive disorder suffer from insomnia (Cohrs, 2008; Thase, 2006)....
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...Therefore, although sleep disorders are not among the first symptoms that come to mind when thinking of schizophrenia, they seem to be a part of its pathophysiology and should not be underestimated (Cohrs, 2008)....
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...severity of the psychotic symptomatology (Cohrs, 2008)....
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...In addition, alterations of slow-wave sleep (Göder et al., 2004) and REM sleep variables, such as reduced REM latency (Monti et al., 2013; Poulin, Daoust, Forest, Stip, & Godbout, 2003) and REM -19- density (Cohrs, 2008), have been found....
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...Disturbed sleep can be found in 30-80% of patients with schizophrenia; this large difference in percentages can be explained by the severity of the psychotic symptomatology (Cohrs, 2008)....
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...Cohrs, S. (2008). Sleep disturbances in patients with schizophrenia: Impact and effect of antipsychotics....
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