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Sleep-related disorders are common, and when left untreated, they can negatively impact health, cognitive development and learning, behavior, and emotional regulation. This chapter will focus on sleep disorders with no known primary organic trigger, which thus can be defined as falling within the spectrum of functional disorders. Fortunately, these disorders are amenable to adjustment of patients’ behavior and/or cognition. Patients with sleep disorders are often treated by specialists who deal with pulmonary disease, and many of the therapies employed in the treatment of such sleep disorders are the same as those for functional respiratory disorders. Sleep-related disorders that are treated primarily by medical or surgical therapies such as sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnolence, and restless legs syndrome will not be discussed. However, application of positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy for SDB is demanding, and many patients have difficulties with its application. Thus, management of the functional issues associated with application of this therapy is discussed.
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Soultan, Z.N., Anbar, R.D. (2012). Functional Sleep Disorders. In: Anbar, R.D. (eds) Functional Respiratory Disorders. Respiratory Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-857-3_7
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