Different Types Of Insomnia
The Different Types of Insomnia
As we have been discussing, chronic insomnia is insomnia in the absence of other medical, neurological, or psychiatric causes. Two of the most common types of this disorder are idiopathic insomnia and psychophysiologic insomnia. I will also briefly touch on another interesting and poorly understood form of insomnia.
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