Sleep and headaches

Sleep has long been recognized to both provoke and relieve headache. Epidemiologic research has associated sleep disorders with more frequent and severe headaches. Chronic daily, awakening, and morning headache patterns are particularly suggestive of sleep disorders, including sleep-related breathin...

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Published in:	Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2008-03, Vol.8 (2), p.167-175
Main Authors:	Rains, Jeanetta C., Poceta, J. Steven, Penzien, Donald B.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Headache - complications Headache - physiopathology Headache - therapy Humans Medicine Medicine & Public Health Neurology Neurosciences Sleep - physiology Sleep disorders Sleep Wake Disorders - complications Sleep Wake Disorders - physiopathology Sleep Wake Disorders - therapy
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Summary:	Sleep has long been recognized to both provoke and relieve headache. Epidemiologic research has associated sleep disorders with more frequent and severe headaches. Chronic daily, awakening, and morning headache patterns are particularly suggestive of sleep disorders, including sleep-related breathing disorders, insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, and parasomnias. Snoring and other indicators of sleep-disordered breathing are the most commonly studied and are particularly salient because of the potential for headache to improve or resolve with treatment of sleep. In addition to sleep disorders, clinical research correlates specific headache diagnoses (eg, migraine, tension-type, and cluster) with chronobiologic patterns and sleep processes, implicating common anatomic structures and neurochemical processes involved in the regulation of sleep and headache. Evidence strongly supports screening for sleep disorders by headache practitioners. Headache management should identify and treat sleep disorders that may improve or resolve headache.
ISSN:	1528-4042 1534-6293