Parasomnias are well-described, common nocturnal phenomena. By definition, parasomnias are “events that occur intermittently or episodically during the night” (1,2). They may occur in any phase of sleep. Most parasomnias are characterized by partial arousals before, during, or after the event. There are several classifications of the major parasomnias—a widely used description of the types of p...

Purpose The so called growing pains (GP) are affecting 4-37% of all children with a peak incidence in the preschool years. The underlying cause of this medically harmless but perturbing condition is still unknown. Although parasomnias (e.g., sleep terrors, sleep talking, sleep walking) share several common features with GP such as age at onset, daytime of appearance, self-limited course and com...

STUDY OBJECTIVES This study involves a replication and extension of a previous one reported by Hurwitz et al (1991) on the treatment of certain parasomnias with hypnosis. METHODS Thirty-six patients (17 females), mean age 32.7 years (range 6-71). Four were children aged 6 to 16. All had chronic, "functionally autonomous" (self-sustaining) parasomnias. All underwent 1 or 2 hypnotherapy session...

OBJECTIVE To characterize a subgroup of arousal parasomnias associated with violent behavior in adults. DESIGN A pilot study on clinical and polysomnographic data of 13 adult patients seen in a tertiary sleep center for the suspicion of arousal parasomnia associated with violence. RESULTS Nine young patients (8 males 1 female) had a common pattern of abnormalities: similar 'claustrophobic' ...

BACKGROUND Sudden breath-holding episodes during sleep in young children are potentially related to sudden infant death syndrome and other life-threatening events. Additionally, these episodes can negatively affect child's growth and development. CASE PRESENTATION Here, we present 3 cases of preschool children with similar paroxysmal nocturnal waking events associated with choking that had di...

BACKGROUND Parasomnia overlap disorder (POD) is a distinct parasomnia and characterized by concomitant manifestation of rapid-eye-movement (REM)- and non-REM (NREM)-parasomnias. Although not uncommon among patients with Parkinson's disease, POD is often under-investigated. CASE PRESENTATION This is the first report of patients with PD and features of POD that underwent deep brain stimulation....

Sleep specialists are frequently referred adults with epilepsy to evaluate their sleep/wake complaints, sometimes to determine whether their paroxysmal nocturnal behaviors are epileptic or not. Many patients with epilepsy have at least one parasomnia (some more than one), and the sleep specialists are often asked to differentiate and treat these. Sleep specialists review which primary sleep dis...

Abstract Background IgLON5 disease is a novel autoimmune tauopathy with diverse sleep and neurologic manifestations. Sleep disorder common initial presentation may precede progression. Neurological symptoms frequently overlap extrapyramidal syndromes, motor neuron dementia. Diagnosis confirmed by anti-IgLON5 IgG in CSF and/or serum. Strong HLA-DRB1*1001 HLA-DQB1*0501 association supports mechan...