- Docente: Fabio Cirignotta
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/26
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Medicine (cod. 0080)
Course contents
Sleep physiology .Scoring of sleep . The cyclic alternating pattern (CAP)
Respiratory disorders during sleep ( OSAS , central apnea, hypoventilation )
Insomnia.Sleep-wake rhythm disorder. Fatal Familial Insomnia .
The moving sleeper (PLMS-PLMD; frontal lobe epilepsy; REM behaviour disorder; sleep related eating disorder; unusual parasomnia and sleep related movement disorder);
Narcolepsy
Sleepiness and driving.
Readings/Bibliography
- The International Classification of Sleep Disorders . Diagnostic and coding manual. American Sleep Disorders Association. Rochester ,1990.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Fabio Cirignotta