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Parasomnias

Parasomnia refers to disorders of arousal, partial arousal, or sleep stage transition. It represents an episodic disorder in sleep (such as sleepwalking) rather than a disorder of sleep or wakefulness per se. Parasomnias may be induced or exacerbated by sleep but they are not disorders of the sleep stages as dyssomnias are.

Nocturnal Leg Cramps

Myoclonus

Somniloquy

Rhythmic Movement Disorder

Sleep Paralysis

Hypnogogia

Sleepwalking or Somnambulism

Night Terrors

Sleep-onset Association Disorder

Bruxism

Other

Parasomnia are often more frequent in kids than in adults. Some pyschologists associate parasmonias in young (preschool) children with separation anxiety, and most experts feel there is a genetic basis, too.

The Cleveland Clinic has a good website section on parasomnias.

 

 

 

 

Sleep Disorders

 

Parsomnias

 

Dyssomnias

 

journal abstracts

 

Specific Groups

 

Women and Sleep Disorders

 

Sleep and Athletes

 

Insomnia in old people

 

Sleep and appetite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

news

Impaired breathing during sleep can disrupt memory and thinking

Orexin blocks weight gain in mice

Hypnogogia

 

 

 

"O Sleep, rest of all things, mildest of the gods, balm of the soul..."

(Iris to Hypnos. Ovid, Metamorphoses)