Current Issue May 2012, Vol. 13, No. 5

Advancing sleep medicine worldwide

WASM is an international organization comprised of healthcare professionals primarily active in the field of sleep medicine. The goal of the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) is to advance knowledge about sleep and sleep disorders among health care personnel and among the public worldwide. WASM was founded to improve sleep health worldwide and to encourage prevention and treatment of sleep disorders.

We at the WASM are working toward increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of sleep and the adverse consequences resulting from lack of sleep, due either to enforced lifestyle or to sleep disorders themselves. The WASM aims to act as a link between various sleep associations and cultures, i.e., as an international nexus among sleep clinicians and researchers in the advancement of worldwide sleep health. A special goal of the Association is to foster dissemination of expertise in sleep medicine everywhere in the world.

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• The official World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) standards for recording and scoring periodic leg movements in sleep (PLMS) and wakefulness (PLMW) developed in collaboration with a task force from the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG)
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• Validation of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale in older black and white women
  January 2012 (Vol. 13 | No. 1 | Pages 36-42)

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  January 2012 (Vol. 13 | No. 1 | Pages 81-87)

  Francesca Bisulli, Luca Vignatelli, Ilaria Naldi, Francesca Pittau, Federica Provini, Giuseppe Plazzi, Carlotta Stipa, Chiara Leta, Pasquale Montagna, Paolo Tinuper

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• Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome aggravated propriospinal myoclonus at sleep onset
  January 2012 (Vol. 13 | No. 1 | Pages 111-114)

  Mutsumi Okura, Manami Tanaka, Hideko Sugita, Mitsutaka Taniguchi, Motoharu Ohi

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