Abstract
Difficulty sleeping is a very common human condition. The results of epidemiological studies have suggested that nearly 20% of the population suffer from it (Karacan et al., 1983). The word insomnia, literally meaning a habitual inability to sleep, is usually used to define the symptom. We may also say that insomnia is the perception or complaint of inadequate or poor-quality sleep, not but abnormality of objective sleep measures themselves. There are those people who have slept for less than 6 hours per night without any perceptions or complaints of poor sleep, while there are those patients who complain of habitual difficulty sleeping although their polygraphic features are normal.
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Uchiyama, M., Ozaki, S. (1997). Diagnosis and Treatment of Insomnia. In: Meier-Ewert, K., Okawa, M. (eds) Sleep—Wake Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0245-0_8
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