Ravi Kumar Singareddy

Sleep in posttraumatic stress disorder.

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry September 1, 2002 Ravi Kumar Singareddy, Richard Balon

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often associated with sleep disturbances. In this review, we focus on the published literature on subjective and objective findings of sleep in patients with PTSD. Insomnia and nightmares are most commonly reported subjective sleep disturbances. Polysomnographic investigations have frequently reported rapid eye movement (REM) sleep abnormalities in PTSD....