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Sleep and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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The ability to initiate and maintain sleep is reduced with normative ageing. Recent researches have also proven that age-related sleep impairment has an underlying neurobiological mechanism. These changes are believed to reflect the neuronal degeneration in mechanisms that are responsible for an optimum sleep physiology. Neurodegeneration is augmented in dementia. These patients often present with a wide spectrum of sleep disturbances like circadian rhythm disturbances, insomnia, hypersomnia, periodic leg movements and restless legs syndrome (RLS), REM sleep behaviour disorder, nocturnal agitation and wandering. This chapter discusses the diagnosis of management issues of sleep disturbances among patients with dementia.

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Pinto, C., Tandel, K.Y. (2022). Sleep in Dementia. In: Gupta, R., Neubauer, D.N., Pandi-Perumal, S.R. (eds) Sleep and Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0123-1_27

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