Patients with complex nocturnal behaviors (parasomnia, sleepwalking) can sometimes be difficult to distinguish from those with epilepsy.The differential diagnosis includes identifying abnormalities on electroencephalography (EEG) that are specific for epilepsy epileptiform discharges. Although these are rarely seen in individuals without epilepsy, and unknown to be associated with sleep disorde...

This review attempts to assemble the characteristics of a distinct variant of sleepwalking called sexsomnia/sleepsex from the seemingly scarce literature into a coherent theoretical framework. Common features of sexsomnia include sexual arousal with autonomic activation (e.g. nocturnal erection, vaginal lubrication, nocturnal emission, dream orgasms). Somnambulistic sexual behavior and its clin...

Research-led teaching is the sine qua non of 21 st century university. To understand its possibilities for and learning about race in Social Policy requires, as a first step, interrogating epistemological theoretical core discipline, well organisational dynamics. Using parts Emirbayer Desmond’s (2012) framework disciplinary reflexivity, this article traces discipline’s habits thought but also l...

The first case of video-polysomnography (vPSG) documented sleep masturbation in a male is reported, and the second reported case of shift work induced sexsomnia. A 20 y.o. soldier with childhood sleepwalking (SW) developed sleep masturbation and SW triggered by military shift work. vPSG documented two episodes of sleep masturbation from N2 sleep in the fourth sleep cycle and from N3 sleep durin...