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Description and Symptoms of Sleepwalking disorder
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Tags: sleepwalking disorder, somnambulism, insomnia, hypnosis, parasomnias, symptoms
Is a Sleep Disorder characterized by walking or other activity while seemingly still asleep. Sleepwalking (Somnambulism) is a series of complex behaviors that are initiated during slow wave sleep and result in walking during sleep.
| | Ambulation (walking or moving about) that occurs during sleep. The onset typically occurs in pre-pubertal children. |
| | Difficulty in arousing the patient during an episode |
| | Amnesia following an episode |
| | Episodes typically occur in the first third of the sleep episode. |
| | Polysomnographic monitoring demonstrates the onset of an episode during stage 3 or 4 sleep |
| | Fatigue (which is not the same as drowsiness), |
| | stress and anxiety |
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