Other names: hypersomnia, excessive sleepiness
Increased sleepiness are among sleep disorders. Professionally he is called hypersomnia (the opposite of insomnia, which is called insomnia). Man can annoy even more than insomnia because a person is sleeping more often than he’d like, and then fails to fully spend a typical day.
This is either an extension of nighttime sleep or need to sleep during the daytime. Hypersomnia is also a common symptom of certain diseases – depression, dementia, multiple sclerosis and infectious diseases of the brain.
Secondary hypersomnia accompanied by night insomnia when a person is tired, then during the day, or even obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (a disorder of breathing during sleep, snoring), restless leg syndrome, and psychosis.
Primary hypersomnia (without cause) is called narcolepsy. It is characterized by recurrent falling asleep during the daytime, the day temples are often of short duration (5-30 min.) And the patient invigorated. Other associated symptoms may include sleep paralysis and cataplexy.
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