Background: Varenicline, which is derived from the cytisine compound, used to assess in smoking cessation. Sleep driving (SD) often classified as a variant of somnambulism. Although, somnambulism has been reported side effect varenicline, varenicline-induced sleep (VISD) not reported. Case Report: A 56-year-old man with history 35 pack year who presented for cessation counseling. Treatment vare...

OBJECTIVE Somnambulism affects up to 4% of adults and constitutes one of the leading causes of sleep-related violence and self-injury. Diagnosing somnambulism with objective instruments is often difficult because episodes rarely occur in the laboratory. Because sleep deprivation can precipitate sleepwalking, we aimed to determine the effects of 25 hours of sleep deprivation on the frequency and...

Though somnambulism (sleepwalking) is a well-recognized sleep disorder in humans, a biomedical literature search in Medline and Primate Literature bibliographic databases showed no publications on sleepwalking in non-human primates. From this finding, two inferences can be made. First is that somnambulism may be present in non-human primates; but due to limitations in expertise and methodologic...

somnambulism consists of a group of behaviors leading to unwanted movements during sleep or even sleepwalking. medications applied for psychiatric disorders could increase the likelihood of somnambulism in adults. the following article is a case report of somnambulism seen in a patient with schizophrenia, which occurred after remission of an acute episode following treatment with olanzapine. wh...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Somnambulism or sleepwalking is a disorder of arousal from non-rapid eye movement sleep. The prevalence of sleep-related eating disorder has been found to be approximately between 1% and 5% among adults. Many cases of medication-related somnambulism and sleep-related eating disorder-like behavior have been reported in the literature. Quetiapine, an atypical antipsycho...