Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Anesthesiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI [email protected] Received August 19, 2022; accepted after revision August 29, 2022. The author declares no conflicts of interest. There was no funding provided for this work. A podcast discussing this article is available online at the journal website.
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....