Diseases

Parasomnias

Movements or behaviors associated with sleep, sleep stages, or partial arousals from sleep that may impair sleep maintenance. Parasomnias are generally divided into four groups: arousal disorders, sleep-wake transition disorders, parasomnias of REM sleep, and nonspecific parasomnias. (From Thorpy, Sleep Disorders Medicine, 1994, p191)

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Movements or behaviors associated with sleep, sleep stages, or partial arousals from sleep that may impair sleep maintenance. Parasomnias are generally divided into four groups: arousal disorders, sleep-wake transition disorders, parasomnias of REM sleep, and nonspecific parasomnias. (From Thorpy, Sleep Disorders Medicine, 1994, p191)

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  • Parasomnia
  • Benign Neonatal Sleep Myoclonus
  • Myoclonus, Benign Neonatal Sleep
  • Neonatal Sleep Myoclonus, Benign
  • Sensory Paroxysms, Sleep
  • Sleep Drunkenness
  • Sleep-Related Abnormal Swallowing Syndrome
  • Drunkenness, Sleep
  • Drunkennesses, Sleep
  • Paroxysm, Sleep Sensory
  • Paroxysms, Sleep Sensory
  • Sensory Paroxysm, Sleep
  • Sleep Drunkennesses
  • Sleep Related Abnormal Swallowing Syndrome
  • Sleep Sensory Paroxysm
  • Sleep Sensory Paroxysms

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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do not confuse x-ref BENIGN NEONATAL SLEEP MYOCLONUS with MYOCLONUS, NOCTURNAL and MYOCLONUS, SLEEP see MYOCLONUS

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2000

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Previous Indexing

  • Sleep Disorders (1979-1999)
  • Somnambulism (1979-1980)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Parasomnias. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020447. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020447
  2. Parasomnias. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasomnia
  3. Parasomnias. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q559869