Zopiclone and sleepwalking

Zopiclone and Traffic Safety

Sleepwalking, night terrors, and consciousness.

OBJECTIVE To determine some personality and psychoneurotic characteristics of adults who have the sleepwalking-night terrors syndrome. DESIGN Prospective assessment of two groups of consecutive patients with a firm diagnosis of either of two specific sleep disorders as established clinically and by polysomnography. SETTING Outpatient sleep disorders clinic and sleep laboratory in a tertiary...

Zopiclone use during pregnancy.

QUESTION One of my patients, whom I had treated with a 2-week course of zopiclone for insomnia, conceived while using the medication. She is concerned. How should I advise her? ANSWER Based on available, albeit limited, evidence, zopiclone does not appear to be a major human teratogen.

Serotonergic hypothesis of sleepwalking.

Despite widespread prevalence of sleepwalking, its etiology and pathophysiology are not well understood. However, there is some evidence that sleepwalking can be precipitated by sleep-disordered breathing. A hypothesis is proposed that serotonergic system may be a link between sleep-disordered breathing and sleepwalking. Serotonergic neurons meet basic requirements for such a role because they ...

Sleep related violence, alcohol and sleepwalking.

Sir, We read with interest the review article in Brain by Siclari et al. (2010). Although the authors cite some relevant studies, in our opinion, they do not adequately discuss the possible causal link between alcohol ingestion and disorders of arousal. Siclari and colleagues state ‘criteria for establishing the putative role of an underlying sleep disorder in a specific violent act have been p...