Main description:

Parasomnias are phenomena that occur exclusively during sleep or are exacerbated during sleep/wake transition. These disorders are known to contribute towards impaired quality of life, disturbed and non-restorative sleep, risk for injuries to self and others and often associated with other medical, neurological and psychiatric disorders. Advances in sleep medicine have revealed a high prevalence of parasomnias across all ages. With the growing interest for diagnosing and management of parasomnias in sleep medicine, a practical guide to parasomnias is greatly needed.

Parasomnias provides a comprehensive review of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical characteristics, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of parasomnias across the patient's life span. Written by experts, each chapter integrates the latest research and clinical data. In addition, several chapters address medico-legal and forensic aspects of parasomnias.

Clinicians and researchers with an interest in sleep medicine will find Parasomnias to not only be an important contribution to the literature, but an indispensible guide to identifying, understanding and treating this disorder.

Contents:

Section I - OVERVIEW

Introduction

Sanjeev V. Kothare and Anna Ivanenko

Pathophysiology of Parasomnias

Suresh Kotagal

Classification of Parasomnias

Erick N. Viorritto and Aatif M. Husain

Diagnosing Parasomnias

Madeleine M. Grigg-Damberger and Frank M. Ralls

Section II - CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AROUSAL DISORDERS

Sleepwalking and Its Variants in Adults

Frank M. Ralls and Madeleine M. Grigg-Damberger

Sleepwalking in Children and Adolescents

Ravindra Arya and Sejal V. Jain

Sleep Terrors and Confusional Arousals in Adults

Milena Pavlova and Myriam Abdennadher

Sleep Terrors and Confusional Arousals in Children and Adolescents

Sejal V. Jain

Section III - CLINICAL CHARACTERSITICS OF SLEEP-WAKE TRANSITION DISORDERS

Sleep Starts and Sleep Talking

Shelly K. Weiss

Section IV- CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS

OF PARASOMNIAS ASSOCIATED WITH REM SLEEP

Physiology and Content of Dreams

Ujjwal P. Ramtekkar, Anna Ivanenko, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

Nightmare Disorders in Adults

Antonio Zadra and Barry Krakow

Nightmare Disorders in Children

Sriram Ramgopal, Marcin Zarowski, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis (RISP)

Sricharan Moturi and Poojitha Matta

Sleep-related Hallucinations

Anna Ivanenko and Sachin Relia

REM Behavior Disorder in Adults

Sujay Kansagra and Bradley V. Vaughn

REM Behavior Disorder in Children

Sriram Ramgopal, Marcin Zarowski, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

Section V - OTHER PARASOMNIAS

Nocturnal Paroxysmal Dystonia

Joseph Kaleyias, Ruchi Arora, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

Sleep Related Dissociative Disorders

Keith R. Warren

Sleep Bruxism

Umakanth Khatwa and Sanjeev V. Kothare

Nocturnal Enuresis

Ronald E. Becker

Sleep Related Eating Disorders: A Separate Entity or Part of the NES Clinical Spectrum?

Orna Tzischinsky, Pierguiseppe Vinai, Michael J. Howell and Yael Latzer

Parasomnia Overlap Disorders

Thomas Freedom

Section VI - NEUROLOGICAL, PSYCHIATRIC AND MEDICAL DISORDERS PRESENTING AS PARASOMNIAS

Neurological Conditions Associated with Parasomnias

Kiran Maski and Smit S. Chauhan

Psychiatric Disorders Presenting with Parasomnias

Robert A. Kowatch

Medical Disorders Presenting with Parasomnias

Ramadevi Gourineni and Lisa Wolfe

Parasomnias Caused by Other Conditions

Harish Rao and Umakanth Khatwa

Section VII - INTERVENTIONS FOR PARASOMNIAS

Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions for Parasomnias

Cynthia D. Nichols and Connie M. Bongiorno

Treatment of Parasomnias

Milena Pavlova and Myriam Abdennadher

Use of Alter

native Medicines in Parasomnias for Adults and Children Youngran Chung and Robert C. Dumont

Section VIII- MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS

Sexomnia: A Medicolegal Case-based Approach in Analyzing Potential Sleep-related Abnormal Sexual Behaviors

Michel A. Cramer Bornemann

Forensic Aspects of the Parasomnias

Karl Doghramji, Solange Margery Bertoglia, and Clarence Watson