Beyond Insomnia – Issues in Non-restorative Sleep

Chairs:  Tom Macek, PharmD, PhD; Tom Roth, PhD

Speakers Include:
 Karl Broich, MD, BfArM
 Russel Katz, MD, US Federal Drug Administration
 Robert Morlock, PhD, YourCareChoice, LLC
 Verne Pitman, PharmD, Pfizer, Inc.
 Tom Roth, PhD, Henry Ford Hospital
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ABSTRACT: Non restorative sleep is an impairment in sleep quality and is characterized by a subjective feeling of being unrefreshed upon awakening and may occur in some individuals who experience normal length of sleep time, time to sleep initiation, night-time arousals and other sleep parameters that are not abnormal. This session will provide an overview of the differential diagnosis, phenomenology, epidemiology, and characteristics of non-restorative sleep in the general population.  In addition, the session will explore whether objective electrophysiological markers exist to characterize non-restorative sleep, the association with other chronic diseases, and also subpopulations of patients with NRS.