(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.
Somnambulistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.
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.