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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is a United States professional society for the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine which includes disorders of circadian rhythms.

It was established in 1975.

Sleep apnea, also spelled sleep apnoea, is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or periods of shallow breathing during sleep.

Each pause can last for a few seconds to several minutes and they happen many times a night.

In the most common form, this follows loud snoring.

There may be a choking or snorting sound as breathing resumes.

As it disrupts normal sleep, those affected are often sleepy or tired during the day.

In children it may cause problems in school or hyperactivity.

Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping.

They may have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep as long as desired.

Insomnia is typically followed by daytime sleepiness, low energy, irritability, and a depressed mood.

It may result in an increased risk of motor vehicle collisions, as well as problems focusing and learning.

Insomnia can be short term, lasting for days or weeks, or long term, lasting more than a month.

A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal.

Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental, social and emotional functioning.

Polysomnography and actigraphy are tests commonly ordered for some sleep disorders.

Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.

It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but is more easily reversed than the state of being comatose.

Sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two highly distinct modes known as non-REM and REM sleep.

Although REM stands for "rapid eye movement", sleep affects other brain-body functions, including virtual paralysis of the body.