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Determinants and Measures of Daytime Sleepiness

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Excessive sleepiness, a manifestation of a medical or neurologic disorder, sleep disorder, or insufficient nocturnal sleep, can lead to impaired functional ability during waking hours and a tendency for mood disturbances that can include irritability, anxiety, and depressive feelings. Although the clinical history is most important to detect and quantify sleepiness, this should be supplemented by the appropriate use of questionnaires that assess nocturnal sleep, sleepiness, and the timing of sleep, as well as objective tests that include polysomnography or actigraphy, and performance tests to assess functional outcome. The following text reviews some of the more commonly used measures in the assessment of sleepiness.

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  1. Sleep-Wake Disorder Center, Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 111 E 210th Street, Bronx, NY, 10467, USA

    Imran Ahmed M.D.

  2. Sleep-Wake Disorder Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 111 E 210th Street, Bronx, NY, 10467, USA

    Michael J. Thorpy M.D.

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  1. Sleep Disorders Center, Pueblo, Colorado, USA

    James F. Pagel

  2. Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine / Center for Healthful Behavior Change, New York, New York, USA

    S. R. Pandi-Perumal

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Ahmed, I., Thorpy, M.J. (2014). Determinants and Measures of Daytime Sleepiness. In: Pagel, J., Pandi-Perumal, S. (eds) Primary Care Sleep Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1185-1_10

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