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Sleep disorders: The key to treating them is to find the underlying condition
By Irene Seiberling, Postmedia News March 1, 2011

Trouble sleeping? You’re not alone. In fact, about 25 per cent of Canadians will have a significant sleep disorder in their lifetime, estimates Dr. Adam Moscovitch, a.k.a. The Sleep Doctor.

“We have about 85 different sleep disorders that we can now recognize and treat,” said Moscovitch, an internationally recognized expert on sleep and fatigue disorders.

A sleep disorder should not be confused with an occasional sleep disturbance, Moscovitch emphasized. Everyone has an occasional sleep disturbance, he said. It may be in relation to a stressful period or worrying about something. A sleep disorder, on the other hand, is already chronic, Moscovitch explained.

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