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Parasomnias in Post-Secondary Students: Prevalence, Distress, and Coping Strategies [PDF]
Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders characterized by abnormal and unpleasant motor, verbal, or behavioral events that occur during sleep or during transitions between wake and sleep states.
Catherine S. Fichten +13 more
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Abnormal Sexual Behavior During Sleep in an Adolescent: Sexsomnia and Defecation [PDF]
Sexsomnia is characterized by sexual behaviors ranging from masturbation, sexual sounds, and verbalizations, to touching and full sexual intercourse during NREM sleep, with subsequent amnesia. Autonomic activation occurs with sexual arousal.
Oya Güleşen Kapan +7 more
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NREM and REM sleep parasomnias: clinical cases and literature review
Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that manifest as abnormal behaviour or movements while falling asleep, during sleep, or before awakening. According to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-3), parasomnias are subdivided ...
K. Teišerskytė +2 more
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Case report: A young man with non-rapid eye movement parasomnias in a KCNT1-related epilepsy family
Differentiating between non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnias and sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy (SHE) is challenging, as they exhibit similar episodes during sleep.
Dandan Sheng +6 more
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The category of common sleep disorders known as parasomnias includes disorders of arousal, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), nocturnal seizures, rhythmic movement disorder, and tooth grinding or 'bruxism'. Parasomnias are all characterised as undesirable physical or behavioural phenomena occurring during the sleep period ...
Laurel, Wills, John, Garcia
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Objectives: Pregnancy is often associated with reduced sleep quality and an increase in sleep disorders, such as restless leg syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea, and insomnia. There are few studies investigating the prevalence of parasomnias in pregnancy,
Jitka Bušková +7 more
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Parasomnias in childhood are common, and often more frequent than in adults. The large number of parasomnias underscore that sleep is not simply a quiescent state, but can involve complex episodes of movement, ranging from subtle to dramatic and complex.
Thornton B A, Mason, Allan I, Pack
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Forensic considerations on violent parasomnias during lifespan [PDF]
Nocturnal parasomnias are a group of sleep complex manifestation that don't alter the sleep macrostructure, but when persistent during adulthood may be assume violent aspects with relevant forensic implications about the ...
Cerroni F. +23 more
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Protocol of the SOMNIA project : an observational study to create a neurophysiological database for advanced clinical sleep monitoring [PDF]
Introduction Polysomnography (PSG) is the primary tool for sleep monitoring and the diagnosis of sleep disorders. Recent advances in signal analysis make it possible to reveal more information from this rich data source.
Arsenali, Bruno +16 more
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Parasomnias are any undesirable physical events or experiences that happen during falling asleep, staying asleep or during arousals from sleep. Parasomnias are classified primarily based on the stage of sleep from which they originate i.e. NREM or REM sleep and by the nature of symptoms, i.e. sleep terrors, sleep walking, sleep eating, etc.
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