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Insomnia – Is it a Symptom or a Disorder?
Gulcin Benbir Senel1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2022Volume: 16
E-location ID: e1874205X2208150
Publisher ID: e1874205X2208150
DOI: 10.2174/1874205X-v16-e2208150
Article History:
Received Date: 7/2/2022Revision Received Date: 1/4/2022
Acceptance Date: 23/5/2022
Electronic publication date: 07/10/2022
Collection year: 2022
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Insomnia disorder is a common public health problem with a prevalence of approximately 2-5% of the population. It is of major importance to differentiate the insomnia disorder from the isolated symptoms and normal variants, and to define the secondary or associated conditions. Insomnia was mainly classified as acute and chronic insomnia disorder based on the 3rd edition of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders. Many models have been developed to explain the underlying mechanisms of insomnia, such as the Drosophila model, the cognitive model, the psychobiological inhibition model, the neurocognitive model, stimulus control model, hyperarousal model and the “3P model” (Spielman model). Optimizing the environmental conditions, lifestyle changes and elaborating the triggering factors are the first step in the management of insomnia disorders.
