[Sleep disorders and their treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder].

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CHU de Lille, service de psychiatrie adulte, médecine légale et médecine en milieu pénitentiaire, pôle de psychiatrie, 59037 Lille, France; Centre national de ressources et de résilience pour le psychotraumatisme (CN2R), 59000 Lille, France.

Published: October 2019

Subjects suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder present sleeping disorders like a chronic insomnia, traumatic nightmares, but also less expected, sleep breathing disorders. Sleep problems are a factor of development and maintenance of PTSD, but also a factor of resistance to treatment. After a therapy focused on PTSD, they represent frequent residual symptoms. It is necessary to couple, with the usual management of PTSD, targeted approaches for sleep problems. These targeted approaches allow an improvement of the nocturnal properties but also diurnal specific symptoms of PTSD. Stakes around primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of PTSD emerge around these sleep disorders.

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