parasomnia
Abnormal sleep behavior
Parasomnia is a category of sleep disorders involving abnormal behaviors, movements, or experiences during sleep or the transitions into and out of sleep.
The term covers sleepwalking, night terrors, sleep paralysis, and other disruptions: The child's parasomnia included episodes of talking and walking while asleep.
Parasomnias differ from insomnia, which is difficulty falling or staying asleep.
Ambulatory behavior during slumber
- sleepeatingUnconscious nighttime food consumption
- bruxismInvoluntary jaw clenching
- sleeptalkingVocalizing during slumber
- bedwettingInvoluntary urination during sleep
Walking during sleep
- ambulationMovement by walking
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
- nightwalkerOne who walks asleep
hallway · bedroom · staircase · doorway · pajamas · trance · automatism · unresponsive
Loud, shrill vocalizing
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- inconsolableUnable to be comforted
sweating · bolting · confusion · amnesia · agitation · fear · flushed · unresponsive
Pathological loss of recall
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
- unresponsivenessLack of reaction
- injuryPhysical or psychological harm
fatigue · embarrassment · bedpartner · vocalization · agitation · distress
Sleep lacking eye movement
- REMAcronym for dreaming phase
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- transitionChange from one state
- brainwavesElectrical signals from neurons
sleepwalking
Ambulatory behavior during slumber
- sleepeatingUnconscious nighttime food consumption
- bruxismInvoluntary jaw clenching
- sleeptalkingVocalizing during slumber
noctambulism
Walking during sleep
- ambulationMovement by walking
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
nightwalker · hallway · bedroom · staircase · doorway · pajamas · trance · automatism · unresponsive · furniture
screaming
Loud, shrill vocalizing
inconsolable · sweating · bolting · confusion · amnesia · agitation · fear · flushed · unresponsive · episode
amnesia
Pathological loss of recall
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
- unresponsivenessLack of reaction
injury · fatigue · embarrassment · bedpartner · vocalization · agitation · distress
NREM
Sleep lacking eye movement
- REMAcronym for dreaming phase
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- transitionChange from one state
brainwaves · EEG · drowsiness
stress
Pressure, mental or vocal
- feverElevated body temperature
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
insomnia, somnolent, insomniac, somnolence, somnambulism, somniferous, hypersomnia, somnambulist