parasomnia
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Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between wakefulness, NREM sleep, and REM sleep, and their combinations.
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- Parasomnia
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- Sleep medicine, neuropsychiatry
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Research
11,281 papers- Drugs Used in Parasomnia.Sleep medicine clinics · 2022
- Drugs Used in Parasomnia.Sleep medicine clinics · 2020
- Drugs Used in Parasomnia.Sleep medicine clinics · 2018
- [Parasomnia].Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine · 2015
- Parasomnia pseudo-suicide.Journal of forensic sciences · 2003
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- C94836
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30 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Non-rapid eye movement (NREM)-related parasomnias
- Diagnosis
- Confusional arousals
- Sleep-related abnormal sexual behavior
- Sleepwalking (somnambulism)
- Sleep terrors (night terrors/pavor nocturnus)
- Sleep-related eating disorder
- Rapid eye movement (REM)-related parasomnias
- REM sleep behavior disorder
- Hypnogely
- Recurrent isolated sleep paralysis
- Nightmare disorder
- Catathrenia
- Sleep-related painful erections
- Other parasomnias
- Exploding head syndrome
- Sleep-related hallucinations
- Sleep enuresis
- Parasomnia, unspecific
- Isolated symptom/normal variant
- Sleep talking (somniloquy)
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prognosis
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between wakefulness, NREM sleep, and REM sleep, and their combinations.
==Classification== The newest version of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD, 3rd. Ed.) uses State Dissociation as the paradigm for parasomnias. Unlike before, where wakefulness, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were considered exclusive states, research has shown that combinations of these states are possible and thus may result in unusual unstable states that could eventually manifest as parasomnias or as altered levels of awareness.