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Dr. Sam A. Kashani is a Sleep Medicine specialist based in Santa Monica, CA, with expertise in diagnosing and treating disorders related to sleep patterns and quality. As a Sleep Medicine doctor, Dr. Kashani conducts sleep quality tests, clinical assessments, sleep studies, and provides behavioral therapy. Sleep Medicine is a medical specialty that focuses on identifying sleep disorders and alleviating the pain, distress, and illness associated with these conditions.

Significant diseases and conditions treated by Sleep Medicine specialists include REM behavior disorder (RBD), sleep paralysis, sleepwalking, sleep apnea, insomnia, recurring nightmares, shift work disorder, circadian rhythm disorders, teeth grinding (bruxism), night terrors, bedwetting, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and restless legs syndrome (RLS). Sleep Medicine doctors offer services such as physical examinations, sleep studies, polysomnography, multiple sleep latency testing, maintenance of wakefulness testing, actigraphy, mental health evaluations, prescribing medications, and referrals to other specialists as necessary.

A sleep medicine specialist with a background in internal medicine is certified in the subspecialty of sleep medicine, specializing in the clinical assessment, physiological testing, diagnosis, management, and prevention of sleep and circadian rhythm disorders. Sleep specialists treat patients of all ages and employ multidisciplinary approaches. Conditions managed by sleep specialists include sleep-related breathing disorders, insomnia, hypersomnias, circadian rhythm sleep disorders, parasomnias, and sleep-related movement disorders.