physical events that occur during sleep
sleep disorders that occur during sleep, or between sleep and waking. Includes nightmare disorder, sleep terror disorder, sleepwalking disorder.
As opposed to dyssomnias in which the clinical focus is a disturbance in the ability to initiate or maintain sleep, paradomnias are disorders of sleep characterized abnormal physiological or behavioral events that disrupt the normal stages of sleep. Parasomnias include sleep terrors, nightmares, and sleepwalking.
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disorders that intrude into the sleep process and create disruptive sleep-related events. These behaviors and experiences occur usually while sleeping, and are most often infrequent and mild. They may happen often enough or become so bothersome that medical attention is required. The parasomnias are typcially classified as: (1) arousal disorders (2) sleep-wake transition disorders (3) parasomnias usually associated with REM sleep and (4) other parasomnias.
Abnormal behaviors during sleep that interrupt sleep and can result in injury, insomnia, and/or excessive daytime sleepiness.
Parasomnias include a broad spectrum of sleep disorders that most often occur during sleep and are most often infrequent and mild in degree of severity. The most common parasomnias are "disorders of arousal" which include confusional arousals, sleepwalking and night terrors.
a wide range of disruptive sleep-related events characterized by full or partial arousal from sleep. They include sleep walking, sleep-related eating, night terrors and bruxism (teethgrinding).
activities that interrupt restful sleep