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Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Psychiatric Disorders

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Sleep-disordered breathing, the commonest form of which is obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is increasingly recognised as a treatable cause of morbidity. It shares many risk factors with psychiatric disorders including behaviours such as smoking and physical comorbidity. Many symptoms of the two overlap, leaving OSA often undetected and undertreated. In the few studies that assess the two, OSA is commonly comorbid with depression (17–45 %) and schizophrenia (up to 55 %) and possibly bipolar. There is some limited evidence that treating OSA can ameliorate psychiatric symptoms. Some psychotropics, such as narcotics, cause sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), whilst weight-inducing neuroleptics may exacerbate it. An extreme form of SDB, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), is a risk in mothers with substance abuse. Being aware of these common comorbidities may help improve psychiatric patient’s treatment and quality of life.

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Nicholas Glozier has received a grant from the NHMRC (Centre of Research Excellence-Neurosleep).

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  1. Sleep and Circadian Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, 431 Glebe Point Road Glebe, Sydney, NSW, 2037, Australia

    Haider A. Naqvi, David Wang & Ronald R. Grunstein

  2. Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Rd, Camperdown, Australia

    David Wang & Ronald R. Grunstein

  3. Centre for Integrated Research and Understanding of Sleep (CIRUS), University of Sydney, Glebe, Sydney, Australia

    David Wang, Nicholas Glozier & Ronald R. Grunstein

  4. Discipline of Psychiatry Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Nicholas Glozier

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Naqvi, H.A., Wang, D., Glozier, N. et al. Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Psychiatric Disorders. Curr Psychiatry Rep 16, 519 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-014-0519-z

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