BACKGROUND: Longitudinal assessments of parasomnias in the adolescent population are scarce. This analysis aims to identify the incidence and remission of parasomnias in the adolescent age group. METHODS: The TuCASA study is a prospective cohort study that initially enrolled children between the ages of 6 and 11 years (Time 1) and subsequently restudied them approximately 5 years later (Time 2...

OBJECTIVE To document the sleep of overweight adolescents and to explore the degree to which weight-related sleep pathology might account for diminished psychosocial outcome. METHODS Sixty children aged 10-16.9 from a weight-management clinic were compared to 22 healthy controls using comprehensive actigraphic, polysomnographic, and parent- and self-report questionnaire assessments. RESULTS...

Parasomnias are common in the benign forms such as sleepwalking and sleep talking. The more dramatic forms such as sleep terrors and confusional awakenings occur frequently in childhood, but attenuate in the teen years. REM behavior disorder, seen in the elderly, is an uncommon entity. Generally diagnosis is based upon clinical history with sleep studies reserved for unusual presentation. The f...

An accurate clinical diagnosis requires differentiation between epilepsy and other causes of transient neurological disturbance and collapse, but the manifestations of epileptic seizures are diverse and there are many imitators, ranging from convulsive syncope to parasomnias. Nevertheless, the diagnosis of epilepsy is frequently straightforward, particularly when precise and detailed personal a...

177 THERE REMAINS A DEARTH OF DATA ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SLEEP DISORDERS AMONG ADOLESCENTS. BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION, OHAYON AND GUILLEMINAULT1 reviewed epidemiologic studies published over a 20-year period that had focused on insomnia, excessive sleepiness, sleep-disordered breathing, and parasomnia. Not a single one focused on adolescents. Little has changed since that review. Four papers have...

PURPOSE The study was conducted to examine the sleep habits and sleep disorders in children and adolescents with headache. MATERIAL AND METHODS Three hundred children with headache were qualified to a headache group (HG) and 284 children from schools and kindergartens without headache to a control group (CG). RESULTS In our study, 27.7% children of the HG slept together with other person in...