OBJECTIVE: To evaluate NREM sleep instability, as measured by the cyclic alternating
pattern (CAP), in children with sleep terrors (ST) vs. normal controls. METHODS: Ten boys …

RLS was first described in pediatric literature in 1994. 1 Recent epidemiologic studies have
shown that RLS is common in children and adolescents with prevalence of 2% to 4%. 2–4 …

NREM parasomnias are frequent and potentially disabling sleep disorders characterized by
recurrent abnormal behaviors emerging from NREM sleep. Recently, several studies …

Arousal Disorders (AD) are motor behaviours arising from NREM sleep. They comprise a
spectrum of manifestations of increasing complexity from confusional arousal to sleep terror …

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) and periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD) are under-
recognized sleep disorders in children and adolescents. Several recent epidemiological …

Polysomnography (PSG) is considered the gold standard for diagnosis of non-rapid eye
movement (NREM) parasomnias, however its diagnostic yield has been rarely reported. We …

We describe a 42-year-old married woman diagnosed with sexsomnia as a NREM
parasomnia, who sought medical assistance motivated by relationship problems with her …

The goal of this report is to review all aspects of sleepwalking (SW), also known as
somnambulism. Various factors seem to initiate SW, especially drugs, stress, and sleep …

Although patients with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes exhibit a
benign course of the disease, some of them display sleep and behavioral problems. Sixty …

Sleep terrors are dramatic events that represent a partial arousal state from deep sleep.
Over the years, these episodes have also been referred to as night terrors, parvor nocturnus …