Citation

Patten SB, Lauderdale WM. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 1992; 31(1): 100-102.

Affiliation

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, University of Calgary.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/00004583-199201000-00015

PMID

1537759

Abstract

Sleep-wake schedule disorder is defined by DSM-III-R as a mismatch between the normal sleep-wake schedule for a person's environment and his or her circadian sleep-wake pattern. The authors report a case in which a sleep-wake schedule disorder arose after a closed head injury. Sleep-wake schedule disorder has not been described as an outcome of closed head injury. As patients with sleep-wake schedule disorders may present with insomnia, this case suggests the possibility that some of the insomnia that frequently follows closed head injury may represent sleep-wake schedule disorders.

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