Insomnia: psychological and neurobiological aspects and non-pharmacological treatments

Insomnia involves difficulty in falling asleep, maintaining sleep or having refreshing sleep. This review gathers the existing informations seeking to explain insomnia, including those that focus on psychological aspects and those considered neurobiological. Insomnia has been defined in psychologica...

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Main Authors: Yara Fleury Molen, Luciane Bizari Coin Carvalho, Lucila Bizari Fernandes do Prado, Gilmar Fernandes do Prado
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Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2014-01-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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description Insomnia involves difficulty in falling asleep, maintaining sleep or having refreshing sleep. This review gathers the existing informations seeking to explain insomnia, including those that focus on psychological aspects and those considered neurobiological. Insomnia has been defined in psychological (cognitive components, such as worries and rumination, and behavioral aspects, such as classic conditioning) and physiological terms (increased metabolic rate, with increased muscle tone, heart rate and temperature). From the neurobiological point of view, there are two perspectives: one which proposes that insomnia occurs in association with a failure to inhibit wakefulness and another that considers hyperarousal as having an important role in the physiology of sleep. The non-pharmacological interventions developed to face different aspects of insomnia are presented.
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spelling doaj-art-0e2ac96c02f64e3aab2e53e9f271e22c2025-08-20T03:54:29ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272014-01-01721637110.1590/0004-282X20130184S0004-282X2014000100063Insomnia: psychological and neurobiological aspects and non-pharmacological treatmentsYara Fleury MolenLuciane Bizari Coin CarvalhoLucila Bizari Fernandes do PradoGilmar Fernandes do PradoInsomnia involves difficulty in falling asleep, maintaining sleep or having refreshing sleep. This review gathers the existing informations seeking to explain insomnia, including those that focus on psychological aspects and those considered neurobiological. Insomnia has been defined in psychological (cognitive components, such as worries and rumination, and behavioral aspects, such as classic conditioning) and physiological terms (increased metabolic rate, with increased muscle tone, heart rate and temperature). From the neurobiological point of view, there are two perspectives: one which proposes that insomnia occurs in association with a failure to inhibit wakefulness and another that considers hyperarousal as having an important role in the physiology of sleep. The non-pharmacological interventions developed to face different aspects of insomnia are presented.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000100063&lng=en&tlng=eninsôniapreocupaçãocaminho da atenção-intenção-esforçohiperalertatratamento não farmacológico
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Insomnia: psychological and neurobiological aspects and non-pharmacological treatments
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title Insomnia: psychological and neurobiological aspects and non-pharmacological treatments
title_full Insomnia: psychological and neurobiological aspects and non-pharmacological treatments
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title_short Insomnia: psychological and neurobiological aspects and non-pharmacological treatments
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caminho da atenção-intenção-esforço
hiperalerta
tratamento não farmacológico
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