Differentiating Oneiric Stupor in Agrypnia Excitata From Dreaming Disorders

Agrypnia excitata and obstructive apnea in a patient with fatal familial insomnia from China

RATIONALE Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) linked to a D178N/129M haplotype mutation in the PRNP gene is the most common genetic prion disease in the Han Chinese population. Here, we describe a Han Chinese patient with FFI who exhibited agrypnia excitata and obstructive apnea. PATIENT CONCERNS A 46-year-old man displayed involuntary movements during sleep time, snoring, autonomic nervous system ...

Sleep disorder associated with antibodies to IgLON5: parasomnia or agrypnia?-Authors' reply.

We read with great interest the paper by Lidia Sabater and colleagues, who describe a novel neuroimmuno logical disease that is a complex, severe sleep disorder associated with antibodies to IgLON5. We have noted a clinically similar disorder in a single patient who had serum and CSF antibodies to the metabotropic GABAB receptor. Similar to the patients in Sabater and colleagues’ report, our pa...

Agrypnia excitata in a patient with progeroid short stature and pigmented Nevi (Mulvihill-Smith syndrome).

We report the video-polysomnographic sleep characteristics of a 25-year-old woman with the Mulvihill-Smith syndrome, a rare clinical condition characterized by progeria-like aspect, peculiar multiple pigmented nevi, low stature, and cognitive impairment. Among the various exams, two overnight video-polysomnographic recordings were carried out; moreover, cerebral MRI and molecular analysis of th...

Dreaming and Eating Disorders

A variety of empirical studies investigated the dream life of different psychopathologi-cal patient groups in order to shed more light on the inner processes taking place in these pa-tients and possibly find clues as to underlying etiological mechanisms (Overview: 1,2). The basic assumption underlying these studies is the so-called continuity hypothesis which entails that waking life occurrence...

Hyperglycemic diabetic stupor: a spectrum of disorders.