The Importance of Sleep for Successful Neurorehabilitation after Stroke.

Sleep has important clinical implications for neurorehabilitation after stroke. We aimed to systematically explore sleep (including naps) as an essential factor in the neurorehabilitation of patients after stroke. After titles and abstracts were screened, 49 full texts were reviewed, and 7 were included in this review.

Subjective and Objective Assessment of Hypersomnolence.

This article describes clinical approaches to assessing sleepiness. Subjective sleep scales are used in clinical settings but have significant limitations. Likewise, objective tools may have prohibitive expense, and practical administration considerations may prohibit regular use.

Subjective and Objective Assessment of Hypersomnolence.

This article describes clinical approaches to assessing sleepiness. Subjective sleep scales are used in clinical settings but have significant limitations. Likewise, objective tools may have prohibitive expense, and practical administration considerations may prohibit regular use.

Neurobiological aspects of sleep physiology.

Sleep is characterized by changes in neural firing and chemistry compared with wakefulness. Many neurologic diseases affect pathways that regulate control of sleep state and some primary sleep disorders have abnormalities of this circuitry. Nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep alternate in an approximately 90-minute cycle.