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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Study Objectives: This study aims to identify the characteristic sleep disturbances that affect behavioral problems in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), providing a potential direction for sleep and behavioral intervention in ASD.Methods: The
Ying Wang +8 more
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Repercussions of a sleep medicine outreach program [PDF]
, 2006 Despite the high prevalence of sleep disorders, many healthcare professionals and lay people have little knowledge of Sleep Medicine. Mindful of such a reality, in 2001 the Sleep Institute of the Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Psicofarmacologia launched
Bittencourt, Lia Rita Azeredo +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 BackgroundWe previously suggested that abnormal sleep behaviors, i.e., as found in parasomnias, may often be the expression of increased activity of the reward system during sleep. Because nightmares and sleepwalking predominate during REM and NREM sleep
Lampros Perogamvros +5 more
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Treatments for somnambulism in adults: assessing the evidence [PDF]
, 2009 Somnambulism, or sleepwalking, is a parasomnia of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep where movement behaviours usually confined to wakefulness are displayed during sleep.
Grunstein, Ron R, Harris, Melanie
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NREM Parasomnias: An Important Comorbidity in Epilepsy Patients of Pediatric Age [PDF]
, 2013 Objectives: We here aimed to investigate our pediatric group of patients to reveal the comorbidity of epilepsy and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnias and their clinical and polysomnographic characteristics.Methods: We retrospectively investigated ...
Cengiz YALÇINKAYA +3 more
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General overview on sleep medication [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2018 There are many medications that cross the blood-brain barrier affecting the central nervous system and converting the normal patterns of sleep and wakefulness. Some drugs are used to treat special sleep disorders, but others can induce sleep disorders (e.
Floriana Boghez, Ioana Mindruta
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 BackgroundThe incubus phenomenon is a paroxysmal sleep-related disorder characterized by the visuotactile sensation of a person or entity exerting pressure on one’s thorax during episodes of sleep paralysis and (apparent) wakefulness.
Marc L. Molendijk +7 more
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Ventromedial medulla inhibitory neuron inactivation induces REM sleep without atonia and REM sleep behavior disorder [PDF]
, 2018 Despite decades of research, there is a persistent debate regarding the localization of GABA/glycine neurons responsible for hyperpolarizing somatic motoneurons during paradoxical (or REM) sleep (PS), resulting in the loss of muscle tone during this ...
Arthaud Sébastien +7 more
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The bidirectional association between sleep problems and autism spectrum disorder [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Sleep difficulties are prevalent in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The temporal nature of the association between sleep problems and ASD is unclear because longitudinal studies are lacking.
Blanken, L.M.E. (Laura) +8 more
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Parasomnia patients and risk of injury, a 16-years clinical study
Sleep Epidemiology, 2023 Purpose: We aimed to analyze the risk of injury in different age and gender groups experiencing parasomnias. Methods: We collected clinical data of adult parasomnia patients seen between 2007 and 2023, from the database of the Institute of Behavioral ...
Vivian M. Correa +2 more
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