Category: Alcohol Dependence

Published on October 10, 2016 Individuals with alcohol dependence (AD) often have sleep-related disorders such as insomnia, circadian-rhythm sleep disorders, breathing-related sleep disorders, movement disorders, and parasomnias such as sleep-related eating disorder, sleepwalking, nightmares, sleep paralysis, and REM sleep behavior disorder.A review published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research examines the various aspects of insomnia associated with AD, especially using findings over the last decade, and employing updated diagnostic criteria for sleep disorders found in the third edition of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders. The authors reviewed 135 studies retrieved from four databases—Pubmed, Medline, Embase, and Google Scholar—to gather abstracts …