What is the branch of neurology involving sleep disorders/patterns call?

I need to know, as I am interested contained by this. also, does anyone know if I would have to become a neurologist first?


Answers:    The area is called "sleep medicine", purely like one of it's principle professional journal, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

http://www.aasmnet.org/jcsm/

Sleep disorders as a group are either call dyssomnias (includes insomnia) and related parasomnias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_disor...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysomnia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasomnia

These are usually treated by pulmonary (respiratory) physicians, not neurologists.

See more at the American Acadamy of Sleep Medicine site:

http://www.aasmnet.org
This is under Psychology.

You requirement to proceed to medicine if you want to proceed on this endeavor.
You will find some disorders below psychiatry, e.g. depression, mania....

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