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Ortenau clinic
Study published sleep disorders
Sleep disorders and nightmares are widespread in psychosomatic patients. This shows, as the Ortenau Clinic Lahr reports, a current study under the direction of Andreas Joos, chief physician of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Lahr Clinic. Together with the University Clinic Freiburg and the Schmieder clinics, psychosomatic patients, neuropsychosomatic patients – i.e. people with neurological functional disorders – and stroke patients were examined. The data on sleep disorders and nightmares were evaluated in cooperation with sleeping researchers from the University of Freiburg and the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim and are now published in the journal Journal of Psychosomatic Research, writes the Ortenau Clinic in a message. Accordingly, around 70 percent of psychosomatic and neuropsychosomatic patients reported sleep disorders, 30 percent of nightmares. In stroke patients, the values were 50 and ten percent lower, but still above the average of the general population. Professor Joos emphasizes: “Some of these figures have been raised for the first time and illustrate the enormous importance of the topic. It is important to take into account sleep disorders and nightmares in the care of these patients – that is, to ask and offer appropriate therapies.” Because sleep is not only crucial for the recovery of brain and body, but also plays a central role in memory functions and the processing of feelings. Current research no longer considers sleep as strictly separated from the awake state, but shows continuous transitions and interactions.
