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Sleep medicine is a subspecialty field in the US under several medical specialties including anesthesiology, internal medicine, family medicine, and neurology. Neurosurgery is a distinct specialty that involves a different training path, and emphasizes the surgical treatment of neurological disorders.
There may be less stress involved in being a sleep medicine specialist as opposed to other specialties, such as surgery or emergency medicine. Because of the wide variety of sleep disorders and complexity of the conditions, the field can be very interesting.dditionally, patients with nightmares, REM sleep disorders and sleepwalking may also be treated by a sleep medicine specialist. After identifying the specific sleep disorder, the specialist uses different methods to treat the condition.