摘要:From the point of view of behavioral medicine, somnolence is a pathological behavior, structured by a series of factors interacting among themselves, modeling physiological-organic changes for the disturbance appears. The excessive diurnal sleeping is normally the effect of a fragmentation of central aspects during the night, which are manifested in the diurnal recovering of accumulated sleep because of its litde efficacy at night. The main objective of this article is to make a search starting from this conception of diurnal excessive somnolence by explicity working out those strategies used in the treatment of this disturbance, and it ends with an analysis of its limitations and research done by psychologists in this field along with the corresponding debate.