The test is performed in order to diagnose possible sleep disorders, such as:

  • Excessive daytime sleepiness
  • Hypersomnia
  • Insomnia
  • Narcolepsy
  • Obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing difficulties during sleep
  • REM behavior disorder (a type of psychosis related to the lack of REM sleep and the fact of not dreaming.

A normal test result shows normal or usual patterns of brain waves and muscle movements during sleep. Abnormal results can confirm the presence of a suspected sleep disorder.

  • Sleep: Sleep disorders, Disomnias, Parasomnias.
  • Epilepsy.
  • Muscle and motor plate: Myopathies, Diseases of motor plate, - Diseases with muscular hyperactivity.
  • Peripheral nerve: Mononeuropathies, Plexopathies, Polyneuropathies, Reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
  • Radiculopathies.
  • Cervical myelopathy.
  • Degenerative diseases: Motor neuron.
  • Movement: Parkinson's surgery, Muscular tremor.
  • Vision: Retinopathy.
  • Hearing: Hearing loss.
  • Diagnostic explorations:
    • Electroencephalography.
    • Evoked Potentials (BERA).
    • Electromyography.
    • Night polysomnography.
    • Night polysomnography with multiple latency test.
    • Respiratory polysomnography.