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Insomnia: a cultural history
In the few remaining pre-industrial equatorial societies, the prevalence of chronic insomnia is just 1–2%; indeed, within these communities there might not even be a word to signify involuntary sleeplessness.[...]social factors have a determining influence on apparently natural patterns of sleep and sleeplessness.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun first appeared in print in Alexander Morison's article on “Sleep and Sleeplessness” in The Lancet in 1908.[...]the term “insomniac” had been in use for at least a couple of decades by the time Morison used it in The Lancet.[...]the insomniac overcomes his condition by working night shifts on the railway, a routine that infallibly makes him fall asleep at precisely the moments he is supposed to remain fully awake.
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Losing sleep
Review articles on insomnia usually emphasise epidemiology, diagnosis, pharmacological and psychological treatment and, more recently, the neurobiological aspects.2 Current psychological theories emphasise the role of stressful life experiences, maladaptive behaviours, cognitive factors, and learned negative associations from a top-down perspective.3-5 This perspective has served as the basis for cognitive-behavioural therapy as the first-line treatment for insomnia (CBT-I).6 In addition, psychophysiological research has suggested the concept of central nervous system hyperarousal as a core pathophysiological pathway.7 This echoes the first neurobiological description of insomnia by von Economo,8 based on his neuropathological work in encephalitis lethargica.
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Franz Kafka's insomnia and parasomnias
[...]we show that Kafka might have had insomnia and sleep-related hallucinations.
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Statius and insomnia: allusion and meaning in Silvae 5.4
Statius′ Silvae 5.4 is one of the best-known poems in the collection, although it is also one of the least representative. Its nineteen lines make it the shortest poem in the Silvae, and although there are other brief poems, such as those describing the parrot of Melior and the tame lion (Silvae 2.4 and 5), it is quite different from the many longer poems that deal with subjects and persons from contemporary society. Of course insomnia must always be a universal issue, but this is nevertheless a poem that does not draw the reader into the ‘ life and times’ of Statius as do the poems which precede and follow it, the laments for his father and for a child (Silvae 5.3 and 5.5).
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