Forensic Evaluation of a Single Episode of a Disorder of Arousal in a Sleepwalking Defense: Cognitive Function Versus Prior Clinical History [PDF]
Sleep Science, 2023 Introduction The clinical diagnosis of disorders of arousal (DOA) is based primarily on a clinical history including amnesia for episodes. The presence of amnesia means the patient cannot provide direct evidence.
Mark R. Pressman
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Somnabulism: Emergency Department Admissions Due to Sleepwalking-Related Trauma [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Somnambulism is a state of dissociated consciousness, in which the affected person is partially asleep and partially awake. There is pervasive public opinion that sleepwalkers are protected from hurting themselves.
Thomas C Sauter +5 more
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A biopsychosocial model of violence when sleepwalking: Review and reconceptualisation [PDF]
BJPsych Open, 2017 Violence towards others during sleepwalking is relatively uncommon, but can result in serious injury or even death. Much of the research in this field has focused on the forensic consequences of violence during sleepwalking without sufficient attention ...
Helen M. Stallman, Andrea Bari
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Sleepwalking, sleep-related eating disorder and sleep-related smoking successfully treated with topiramate: a case report [PDF]
Sleep Science, 2022 We describe a 45-year-old married woman with sleepwalking, sleep-related eating disorder, and sleep-related smoking behavior, but without restless legs syndrome.
Sana Elham Kazi +2 more
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Sleepwalking certainties: agency, aesthetics, and incapacity in W.G. Sebald’s 'Austerlitz' and Hermann Broch’s 'The Sleepwalkers' [PDF]
, 2013 When we first encounter the narrator of Austerlitz, he is wandering around the unfamiliar town of Antwerp with, he tells us, “unsicheren Schritten” (1; 9).
Thomson, Stephen
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Sleep, 2009 THE ARTICLE OF OUDIETTE ET AL1 PUBLISHED IN THIS EDITION OF SLEEP GIVES OFF A DISTINCT FEELING OF SLEEP SCIENCE DEJA VU. THEIR REPORT OF “dreamlike” mentation in sleepwalkers and night terror patients is similar in many ways to descriptions and theories of sleepwalking that go back hundreds of years.
Mark R. Pressman
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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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Chronic adult sleepwalking: clinical features and diagnostic evaluation [PDF]
Annals of General Psychiatry, 2006 Vlahoyianni Eftimia +8 more
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Autonomic Modulation During Baseline and Recovery Sleep in Adult Sleepwalkers
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Sleepwalking has been conceptualized as deregulation between slow-wave sleep and arousal, with its occurrence in predisposed patients increasing following sleep deprivation.
Geneviève Scavone +11 more
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