
Waking up at night to use the bathroom, common in men with enlarged prostate.Health problems may also lead to problems sleeping and insomnia: For some people, the stress caused by insomnia makes it even harder to fall asleep. Stress and anxiety, whether it is short-term or long-term.(Often, insomnia is the symptom that causes people with depression to seek medical help.) Physical, social, and mental health issues can affect sleep patterns, including: Getting used to certain types of sleep medicines.Too much caffeine throughout the day or drinking caffeine late in the day.The use of some medicines and drugs may also affect sleep, including: Using the television, computer, or a mobile device in bed.Spending too much time in bed while awake.

Poor sleeping environment, such as too much noise or light.Going to bed at a different time each night.Poor sleep or lifestyle habits that may cause insomnia or make it worse include: Sleep habits we learned as children may affect our sleep behaviors as adults. The circadian process transmits stimulatory signals to arousal networks to promote wakefulness in opposition to the homeostatic drive to sleep. The homeostatic process is the drive to sleep that is influenced by the duration of wakefulness. These project to the TMN and the brainstem arousal regions to inhibit wakefulness.īoth animal and human studies support a model of 2 processes that regulate sleep and wakefulness: homeostatic and circadian. The anterior hypothalamus includes the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO), containing gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and the peptide galanin, which are inhibitory and promote sleep. This suggests a redundant system, wherein the absence of one neurotransmitter may be compensated by the other systems. Acetylcholine – cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrainĮach region and neurotransmitter contributes to the promotion of wakefulness, but chronic lesions of any one system do not disrupt wakefulness.Dopamine – dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA).Serotonin – serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nuclei (DRN).Norepinephrine – norepinephrine-producing neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC).Histamine – histaminergic cells in the tuberomammillary nucleus (TMN) in the posterior hypothalamus The neurotransmitters involved, along with the main cell groups that produce them, are as follows: Although diverse in terms of neurochemistry, these cell groups share the features of a diffuse “ascending” projection to the forebrain and a “descending” projection to brainstem areas involved in regulating sleep-wake states. Reciprocal connections in the brain produce consolidated periods of wakefulness and sleep that are entrained by environmental light to occur at specific times of the 24-hour cycle.īrain areas critical for wakefulness consist of several discrete neuronal groups centered around the pontine and medullary reticular formation and its extension into the hypothalamus. 0001) and the initial and terminal subtypes also appeared to have anĬonclusions : The most common subtype is simultaneous early, middle and terminal insomnia, the decrease in insomnia severity is related to remission among depressive disorders.Sleep and wakefulness is a tightly regulated process. All three subtypes were significant predictors of HAM-D scores over time (p <.

Insomnia decreased more among those in the remitted group than in those from the non-remitted group (mean difference = -1.76, 95% CI = -0.24 to -1.19). The mean score for simultaneous early, middle and terminal The most common subtype was simultaneous initial, middle and terminal insomnia, with 52% showing this subtype at the baseline, and 15% at the 3-month follow-up. Results : Ninety-three percent of the participants were found to have insomnia.

Clinical Global Impression was applied to define the presence or not of remission, and the influence of each insomnia subtype on HAM-D scores over time analyzed. The insomnia subtypes found at each of these points were compared. Two hundred and twenty-four participants with depressive disorder were evaluated using the Hamilton Depressive Rating Scale (HAM-D) insomnia subscale at the baseline and at a three-month follow-up. Methods : This report describes the insomnia subtypes found in outpatients with depressive disorders after 3 months of treatment. Objective : To investigate the insomnia subtypes found in patients with depressive disorders, those in both remission and non-remission groups.
