Vasopressin, also known as antidiuretic hormone (ADH), has two main functions ... Chief among these is the body's sleep-wake cycle. Without circadian rhythms, the body's ability to maintain ...

Antidiuretic hormone normally increases during sleep, reducing urine production to its lowest levels during the middle portion of your sleep cycle. Disruptions to this rhythm often manifest as ...

A patient with clinical and laboratory evidence of recurrent hypothyroidism and severe hyponatremia probably due to inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone was recently seen at the Grace ...