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Dreamlike mentations during sleepwalking and sleep terrors in adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep terrors and sleepwalking are described as arousals from slow wave sleep with no or poor mental recollection.

Objective

To characterize the mental content retrospectively associated with sleep terrors or sleepwalking.

Setting

University Hospital.

Design

Controlled prospective cohort.

Participants

Forty-three patients referred for severe sleepwalking/sleep terrors (age: 26 +/- 7 y, 46% men, 5 with sleep terrors only, 8 with sleepwalking only, and 30 with both), matched with 25 healthy control subjects.

Intervention

Thirty-eight of the 43 patients (88%) underwent an interview about the frequency, time, behaviors, and mental content associated with the episodes of sleepwalking and sleep terrors, whenever they occurred over a lifetime. The mental contents were classified for complexity (Orlinski score), and for characters, emotions, fortune/misfortune, and social interactions (Hall and Van de Castle categories). Patients and control subjects underwent an overnight video-polysomnogram.

Results

Seventy-one percent of the patients reported at least 1 dreamlike mentation associated with the sleepwalking/sleep terrors episode. The dreamlike mentation action corresponded with the observed behavior. A total of 106 dreamlike mentations were collected (mean: 3 +/- 3.4 dreamlike mentations/patient, range 0-17). Most (95%) dreamlike mentations consisted of a single visual scene. These dreamlike mentations were frequently unpleasant, with aggression in 24% (the dreamer being always the victim), misfortune in 54%, and apprehension in 84%. The patients with dream mentations reported more severe daytime sleepiness.

Conclusion

Short, unpleasant dreamlike mentations may occur during sleepwalking/sleep terrors episodes, suggesting that a complex mental activity takes place during slow wave sleep. Sleepwalking may thus represent acting out of the corresponding dreamlike mentation.

SUBMITTER: Oudiette D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2786046 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Dreamlike mentations during sleepwalking and sleep terrors in adults.

Oudiette Delphine D Leu Smaranda S Pottier Michel M Buzare Marie-Annick MA Brion Agnès A Arnulf Isabelle I

Sleep 20091201 12

<h4>Background</h4>Sleep terrors and sleepwalking are described as arousals from slow wave sleep with no or poor mental recollection.<h4>Objective</h4>To characterize the mental content retrospectively associated with sleep terrors or sleepwalking.<h4>Setting</h4>University Hospital.<h4>Design</h4>Controlled prospective cohort.<h4>Participants</h4>Forty-three patients referred for severe sleepwalking/sleep terrors (age: 26 +/- 7 y, 46% men, 5 with sleep terrors only, 8 with sleepwalking only, an ...[more]

PMID: 20041598

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Dataset Information

Dreamlike mentations during sleepwalking and sleep terrors in adults.

Background

Objective

Setting

Design

Participants

Intervention

Results

Conclusion

Publications

Dreamlike mentations during sleepwalking and sleep terrors in adults.

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