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SUBMITTER: Merli E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7099188 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Merli Elena E Ferri Raffaele R DelRosso Lourdes M LM Mignani Francesco F Loddo Giuseppe G Traverso Annalisa A Provini Federica F
Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 20191102 12
<h4>None</h4>We report the case of a 3-year-old boy with a history of frequent and injurious sleep-related rhythmic movements and sleep terrors. We documented six episodes of body rocking and head banging via video polysomnography. No epileptic seizures were observed. In addition to the association between a sleep movement disorder and a disorder of arousal, our case shows that sleep-related rhythmic movements can arise not only during relaxed wakefulness or during a stable sleep stage, but also ...[more]