Adult NREM Parasomnia Associated with Lancinating Throat Pain

Distinctive Features of NREM Parasomnia Behaviors in Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple System Atrophy

OBJECTIVE To characterize parasomnia behaviors on arousal from NREM sleep in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). METHODS From 30 patients with PD, Dementia with Lewy Bodies/Dementia associated with PD, or MSA undergoing nocturnal video-polysomnography for presumed dream enactment behavior, we were able to select 2 PD and 2 MSA patients featuring NREM Parasomnia Behvior...

A novel NREM and REM parasomnia with sleep breathing disorder associated with antibodies against IgLON5: a case series, pathological features, and characterization of the antigen

Lidia Sabater, PhD1,*, Carles Gaig, MD1,2,3,*, Ellen Gelpi, MD1,4,*, Luis Bataller, MD5,7, Jan Lewerenz, MD6, Estefanía Torres-Vega, BSc7, Angeles Contreras, MD8, Bruno Giometto, MD9, Yaroslau Compta, MD2, Cristina Embid, MD3,10, Isabel Vilaseca, MD3,11, Alex Iranzo, MD1,2,3, Joan Santamaría, MD1,2,3, Josep Dalmau, MD1,12,13, and Francesc Graus, MD1,2 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Augu...

Sexsomnia: parasomnia associated with sexual behaviour during sleep.

INTRODUCTION The purpose of our study is to describe 4 cases of sexsomnia, a form of parasomnia characterised by sexual behaviour during sleep. METHODS Clinical history and video-polysomnography recordings from patients diagnosed with sexsomnia in the Multidisciplinary Sleep Unit at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. RESULTS Three men and one woman between 28 and 43 years of age reported sexual ...

Sleep disorder associated with antibodies to IgLON5: parasomnia or agrypnia?

Impacted cisterna magna without syringomyelia associated with lancinating headache, throbbed nuchal pain and paraparesis treated byposterior fossa decompression.

A 29-year-old woman with acute lancinating headache, throbbed nuchal pain and subacute paraparesis underwent brain MRI in supine position that depicted: the absence of the cisterna magna, filled by non herniated cerebellar tonsils and compression of the brain stem and cisternae of the posterior fossa, which are aspects of the impacted cisterna magna without syringomyelia and without hydrocephal...