Sleep-walking

Parasomnia Undesirable physical or behavioral phenomena that occur predominantly during sleep (e.g., sleep walking, brux-ism, enuresis, sleep talking, and rapid eye movement behavior disorder). 

Somnambulism (sleep walking) is a disorder of arousal that often includes complex, wake-like behaviour with an unclear connection to conscious intention (Whyte, 1989). Onset of this disorder usually occurs in childhood from the age of three and often remits spontaneously with puberty (Rosen et al., 1995 ... 

If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you already understand our natural tendency to dissociate—to be in one conscious state but to experience in it properties of another. I will show that when amplified this normal process can lead to such exceptional states as sleep walking and hypnopompic hallucinations, and that these exceptional states can become models for understanding out of body experiences, extrasensory perceptions, or alien abductions All of these exotic experiences can— and usually do—occur in the privacy and safety of our bedrooms. 

Examples of dissociations of consciousness that often divide the waking mind into two compartments include microsleeps, attentional lapses, and fantasy states. At the edges of sleep are hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis. Within sleep are sleep walking, sleep talking, and lucid dreaming. In all of these conditions, consciousness has some features characteristic of one state mixed with features characteristic of another. 

Hypnopompic hallucinations clearly illustrate the continuation of REM sleep dreaming into subsequent waking. That is, instead of arising out of the blue (out of thin air, as we say), they simply continue an ongoing—and perfectly normal—sleep-related hallucinatory process across the line into waking. Practically everyone has had some experience with uncoordinated state transitions on arousal from sleep. Sleep walking, being unable to move, and persistent anxiety after arousal from a chase dream are some common examples. 

Oxycodone also can be helpful to people with diabetes or AIDS who have a painful condition known as peripheral neuropathy. The condition causes burning pain and tingling in the hands, feet, and toes. Over time, the pain worsens and can lead to difficulty sleeping, walking, and performing other normal daily activities. 

Sleep walking, sleep talking, and tooth grinding are three of the so-called parasomnias, movement (or motor) behaviours that occur unexpectedly during sleep. When we recall that the answer to so many of our questions has been brain activation in sleep, it will not... 

In performing such sleep-walking acts, these individuals are partially aroused, but still deeply asleep in respect of the upper brain. We know this from lab studies in which brain waves have been recorded. The high-voltage slow waves of deep sleep continue to be recorded while the individual sleep walks. One old wives tale about sleep walking holds that it is a mistake to wake the person, usually a young person, up from such episodes. The answer to that one is to go ahead and try . It is usually impossible, but don t worry about it because, if you can t do it or if you do succeed in waking them, there will be no adverse consequence whatsoever. 

The new kid on the dream disorder block is the REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), a very strange syndrome in which patients enact their dreams through movement. This is not sleep walking, although it is what sleep walking was erroneously thought to be. How does RBD come about ... 

Paroxetine has been associated with sleep-walking (somnambulism) (19). 

A 61-year-old woman taking paroxetine 10 mg/day for depression had difficulty falling asleep, but there was no personal or family history of parasomnia. After 2 weeks the paroxetine was increased to 20 mg/day and 1 week later she was noted by her husband to be sleepwalking and trying at times to leave the house. When wakened she was confused and had no memory of the event. The paroxetine was withdrawn the sleep-walking stopped and did not recur. 

Other classes of antidepressant drugs can sometimes cause somnambulism, and it seems likely that paroxetine provoked this rare adverse effect. Sleep-walking is thought to be initiated during slow-wave sleep, after which partial arousals activate motor behaviors in the absence of full consciousness. The disrupting effects of antidepressants on sleep architecture might lead to somnambulism in pre-disposed individuals. 

Amfebutamone promotes slow wave sleep, the sleep stage during which somnambulism is initiated. However, this case was complex, because of the possible interaction with nicotine withdrawal. Nicotine withdrawal is associated with increased appetite and weight gain, and sleep walking can be associated with nocturnal eating... 

Suppression of muscle motility - after all, we don t want the patient to jump of the table and sleep walk around the operation theater. 

True event. Roger, a first-line R D supervisor, had always received above-average performance reviews. He made no waves, followed orders, did the required paperwork, and sleep-walked his way through corporate life for 10 years, totally ignoring employees concerns... 

Sleep problems—symptoms can include insomnia, night terrors, sleep walking, fear of separation, or anxiety. 

A chemical, 5-hydroxy tryptamine (5-HT), present in platelets, gastro intestinal mucosa, mast cells, and carcinoid tumours. It is a potent vasoconstrictor and also a neurotransmitter in the CNS, and is important in sleep-walking cycles. 

A 63-year-old woman experienced sleep walking on two separate occasions within 2 weeks of taking bupropion 150 mg/day in addition to her existing antidepressant treatment. On both occasions, her symptom resolved the very same night that bupropion was stopped. 

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Nervous system Sleep walking has been attributed to zolpidem [43. ... 

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