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17th Annual Educational Symposium
The California Sleep Society will hold its 17th Annual Educational Symposium on October 4-5, 2024, at the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto, California.
Registration is open! Early bird registration rates are available now.
Membership Benefits include:
- Education events in sleep medicine
- Contact listings with other sleep professionals
- Local networking opportunities
- Shared insights into sleep legislation and legislative advocacy
- CSS Newsletter and opinion pieces
- Discount on CSS annual meeting
- Ability to place ads or publish articles in Newsletter
- Listing in California membership directory
Newsletter Contributions
If you would like to contribute a sleep-based feature article, we would love to hear from you. Email us at [email protected].
Insomnia in Narcolepsy, A Clinical Paradox
By: Sam A. Kashani, MD, California Sleep Society President-Elect
If sleep disorders could be represented by a solitary scale of sleep-wake dysfunction, insomnia and narcolepsy would seemingly represent two opposite ends of this scale. One may assume that a person who feels overwhelmingly somnolent throughout the daytime would likely have no difficulty with nocturnal sleep, and yet insomnia may be the most commonly underestimated symptom experienced by people with narcolepsy. Recalling our definition of insomnia as any difficulty with sleep initiation, sleep maintenance, or both, people with untreated narcolepsy often experience any one of these patterns of insomnia, which, apart from posing a diagnostic challenge for the clinician evaluating them, can most certainly exacerbate their other narcolepsy symptoms including recurrent sleep paralysis, sleep-wake transitional hallucinations, and, of course, daytime hypersomnolence.
Delayed Phase Sleep Syndrome and Adolescence
By: Patrick Moday, BBA, RPSGT, RST, California Sleep Society President
Question: What is Delayed Sleep Syndrome?
Answer: The natural shift in a teen’s circadian rhythms is called “sleep phase delay”. Delayed sleep phase is a sleep disorder that affects the internal clock, known as circadian rhythm.
