“…These included multiple sclerosis (de Vries, 2008); Parkinson's disease (Whitehead et al, 2008); Huntington's disorder, Shy-Drager syndrome, polysensory neuritis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy (Dauvilliers, 2007); brain and spinal cord injuries (Piper, 2008); cerebral palsy (Kotagal et al, 1994); stroke, end-stage cardiac disease (Roth, 2009;Skobel et al, 2008); COPD (Herdegen, 2006); diabetes (Skomro, 2008); chronic renal disease (Patel et al, 2008); and cancer (Paltiel & Greenwald, 2008). Illnesses associated with poor sleep also included a current diagnosis of depression (Caliyurt, 2008), which was measured by current treatment with antidepressants.…”