Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep parasomnias (or NREM parasomnias) are
fascinating disorders with mysterious neurobiological substrates. These conditions are …

Somnambulism, or sleepwalking, can give rise to a wide range of adverse consequences
and is one of the leading causes of sleep-related injury. Accurate diagnosis is crucial for …

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) has been delineated as a distinct syndrome in the
heterogeneous group of paroxysmal sleep-related disturbances. The variable duration and …

Background: Arousal parasomnias (night terrors, sleepwalking, and confusional arousals)
have seldom been investigated in the adult general population. Clinical studies of …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate lifetime and current prevalence (defined as having experienced
the specific parasomnia at least once during the last 3 months) of different parasomnias in …

Disorders of arousal (DOA) is an umbrella term initially covering classical sleepwalking,
sleep terrors, and confusional arousals, and now including a wider spectrum of specialised …

Sleepwalking and related disorders are the result of factors that predispose, prime and
precipitate episodes. In the absence of one or more of these factors sleepwalking is unlikely …

Parasomnias are abnormal behaviors emanating from or associated with sleep.
Sleepwalking and related disorders result from an incomplete dissociation of wakefulness …

Importance Childhood sleepwalking and sleep terrors are 2 parasomnias with a risk of
serious injury for which familial aggregation has been shown. Objectives To assess the …

In studies on the Finnish Twin Cohort, we investigate genetic and environmental
determinants of common, complex diseases, and their behavioral risk factors in Finland, a …