objectives: parasomnias can create sleep disruption; in this article we assessed parasomnias in school-aged children in tehran . methods: in spring 2005, a total of 6000 sleep questionnaires were distributed to school-aged children in 5 districts of tehran (iran). a modified pediatrics sleep questionnaire with 34 questions was used. results: parasomnias varied from 0.5% to 5.7% among the subjec...

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...

BACKGROUND Despite its high prevalence, relatively little is known about the pathophysiology of somnambulism. Increasing evidence indicates that somnambulism is associated with functional abnormalities during wakefulness and that sleep deprivation constitutes an important drive that facilitates sleepwalking in predisposed patients. Here, we studied the neural mechanisms associated with somnambu...

Sleep-related eating disorder (SRED) is characterized by recurrent episodes of involuntary eating during sleep period and is often associated with restless legs syndrome (RLS). Although pharmacotherapy is recommended for SRED patients, no drug have shown promising effects so far. The patient, a 48-year-old Japanese housewife, first visited our clinic and complained about nighttime eating. She h...

INTRODUCTION Somnambulism is a state of dissociated consciousness, in which the affected person is partially asleep and partially awake. There is pervasive public opinion that sleepwalkers are protected from hurting themselves. There have been few scientific reports of trauma associated with somnambulism and no published investigations on the epidemiology or trauma patterns associated with somn...