These professionals specialize in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders, which often greatly impact a patient's life and health. Sleep medicine requires interdisciplinary collaboration with neurology, otolaryngology, psychiatry, and pulmonology physicians to improve an individual's sleep quality and overall well-being.
Sleep medicine might be used to study or treat the following:
- Chronic fatigue
- Insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Night sweats
- Pediatric sleep disorders
- REM behavior disorder
- Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
- Sleep apnea
- Sleepwalking
