General medicine

The "hypo-sleep" syndrome punctuates the patients’ past medical history through a (quite stereotyped) sequence of events.
These steps follow each other like the different carriages of a train, from the first "tonics" till the unavoidable "pills of happiness", and go through the whole medical system’s circuits.
The "train of the hypo-sleep syndrome" is the illustration that summarizes, in our opinion, the main evolving stages of tiredness.
This natural evolution depends on the (…)

Tiredness can express through a real sensation of danger that stands for a sign of alarm in a context of decompensation of the sleep balance.

In sleep medicine, the notion of stress is, in our opinion, too restrictive.
All the events of life possess a "somno-toxic" effect but their impact on sleep efficiency is often independent of their objective intensity.
"There’s nothing wrong with you, it is probably stress..."
"Yes, I know, you understand, that’s because I have some problems..."
All events of life possess their own « somno-toxic » effect but their impact on sleep efficiency is often independent of their objective (…)

Definition of the neologism « hypo-sleep syndrome » designed to place sleep at the center of pathologies described as functional or psychosomatic.