Survey of Sleep Practices Among Clinicians Working With Pediatric Oncology Patients. [PDF]
PsychooncologyABSTRACT Objective Pediatric cancer patients are at increased risk for sleep disturbances; however, there are no clinical practice guidelines for treating sleep disturbances in pediatric oncology, resulting in variable approaches to sleep management across clinicians.
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Sexsomnia: case based classification and discussion of psychosocial implications [PDF]
Sleep Science, 2021 We describe a 42-year-old married woman diagnosed with sexsomnia as a NREM parasomnia, who sought medical assistance motivated by relationship problems with her husband after two sexsomnia episodes.
Andrea Cecilia Toscanini +3 more
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How are normal sleeping controls selected? A systematic review of cross-sectional insomnia studies, and a standardised method to select healthy controls for sleep research [PDF]
, 2008 There appears to be some inconsistency in how normal sleepers (controls) are selected and screened for participation in research studies for comparison with insomnia patients.
Louise Beattie +59 more
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Sleepwalking and prolonged partial sleep paralysis in a case of obstructive sleep apnea [PDF]
Sleep Science, 2021 Observation of episodes of sleepwalking and prolonged partial sleep paralysis in the same patient is a rare condition. We present a case of 42 years gentleman who presented with recurrent episodes of sleepwalking and prolonged ...
Sudheer Tale +4 more
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Parasomnias and Antidepressant Therapy: A Review of the Literature [PDF]
, 2011 There exists a varying level of evidence linking the use of antidepressant medication to the parasomnias, ranging from larger, more comprehensive studies in the area of RBD to primarily case reports in the NREM parasomnias.
Lara Kierlin, Michael R. Littner
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Behavioural and Cognitive-Behavioural Treatments of Parasomnias
Behavioural Neurology, 2015 Parasomnias are unpleasant or undesirable behaviours or experiences that occur predominantly during or within close proximity to sleep. Pharmacological treatments of parasomnias are available, but their efficacy is established only for few disorders ...
Andrea Galbiati +4 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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Sleeptalking! Sleepwalking! Side Effects of Montelukast
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2013 A 16-year-old Caucasian female presented to the pulmonary clinic for a followup on her asthma. Due to the worsening of allergy-related symptoms, therapy with montelukast 10 mg daily was started and resulted in good relief of the patient’s symptoms.
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Definition and diagnostic criteria of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy [PDF]
, 2016 The syndrome known as nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy is recognized worldwide and has been studied in a wide range of clinical and scientific settings (epilepsy, sleep medicine, neurosurgery, pediatric neurology, epidemiology, genetics). Though uncommon,
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Relationship Between Heart Rate Variability and Sleep Among Girls and Boys With Abdominal Pain-Related Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction. [PDF]
Neurogastroenterol MotilChildren with abdominal pain–related disorders of gut–brain interaction had associations between heart rate variability and disturbed sleep, with distinct patterns in girls and boys. Lower autonomic activity was linked to sleep‐disordered breathing in both sexes.
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