(1) (5) The part played by these modifications during the first hours of sleep in the occurrence of night terrors and somnambulism is discussed.
(2) We compared the sleep characteristics of seven healthy elderly people complaining of nocturnal somnambulism-like behaviors with those of 14 age-matched healthy elderly people who had never shown such behavior.
(3) MacMillan was nevertheless a precocious dance-maker, and even his earliest experiments – Somnambulism (1953), Laiderette (1954) – showed his distinctive choreographic flair.
(4) Disturbances linked with sleep are snoring, somnambulism, speaking and grinding of the teeth during sleep and nocturnal enuresis.
(5) Using these methods we were able to differentiate a sleep disorder (somnambulism) from his grandmal epilepsy.
(6) Ever since the arrival of "our" pandas, a stampede of visitors has seen the once somnambulant finances of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland firmly perk up.
(7) Among the disorders of sleep, insomnia is a far more common problem of medical management than are enuresis, narcolepsy, somnambulism or nightmares.
(8) Psychic or organic moments may trigger somnambulance if there exists a readiness for this form of reaction.
(9) Night terrors and other sleep disturbances, such as somnambulism, are disorders of arousal (Broughton, 1968; Fisher, Kahn, Edwards, & Davis, 1973; Guilleminault, 1987).
(10) Much to the dismay of its creators, Blue Lines is also viewed in pop historical terms as the prototype of trip-hop, a downbeat genre that merged elements of American hiphop, funk and Jamaican dub reggae into a somnambulant, skunk-fuelled soundtrack to British inner-city life.
(11) The possibility that migraine and somnambulism appearing in the same patient at different ages might be the expression of a same neurochemical disorder is discussed.
(12) (1) The sleep pattern of 23 children, aged 5-12 years, with episodic nocturnal phenomena (night-terrors, somnambulism, rhythmic movements) was recorded during two successive nights.
(13) Night terrors and somnambulism (NTS) are defined as disorders of arousal occurring in children during Stage 3 to 4 of NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep.
(14) Somnambulism and migraine appear at different ages, the former in the late infancy, the latter in childhood and both could be due to a disorder of serotonin metabolism.
(15) Looking for frequency of somnambulism in 3 homogeneous groups of children, a first group of migrainous children, a second group of epileptic children and a third group of normal children, the authors have observed that an antecedent of somnambulism existed in 28% of migrainous children, when it was found in only 6% of epileptic children, and in 5% of normal children.
(16) A 39-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder experienced somnambulism only when taking a combination of lithium carbonate, chlorpromazine, triazolam, and benztropine.
(17) The problem of somnambulism is discussed in this paper by reference to the present state of research in this field.
(18) The practical interest to know this association is that somnambulism may be a real clinical marker of migrainous background that should be searched for in every patient presenting with chronic cephalalgia.
(19) There were no relations between epilepsy and somnambulism.
(20) This kind of psychotherapy is applied for the first time as a therapy for somnambulism.
Somnambulist
Definition:
(n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt my way downstairs in an unfocused fashion about 10am, with some somnambulistic intention of watching the start of colour on all channels.
(2) Most child somnambulists and children with night terrors "outgrow" this disorder, suggesting a delayed maturation of the central nervous system.
(3) Since sleepwalking occurs out of slow wave sleep, the increase in slow wave sleep induced by lithium and certain neuroleptics may represent a neurophysiological mechanism responsible for these patients' somnambulistic behaviour.
(4) Ten of 114 psychiatric patients undergoing combined lithium-neuroleptic treatment exhibited somnambulistic-like episodes.
(5) Occasionally, a drug or a combination of drugs may produce somnambulistic-like activity in some patients.
(6) Sleep automatisms, and offences committed during a somnambulistic automatism, are also discussed in detail.
(7) At doses of 30 mkg, 5-OT in the SWS stage produced periods of somnambulistic forms of behaviour, turning sometimes in real awakening.
(8) A study was made of the changes in the bioelectrical activity of the muscles in the course of local static work up to "refusal" under the usual conditions and under condition of inhibition of the program-control function of the cortex (during the somnambulistic stage of hypnosis).
(9) During the polysomnographic studies, 8 patients had 47 distinct somnambulistic episodes.
(10) The occurrence of grand mal seizures in two patients was probably unrelated to the somnambulistic-like episodes.