Sleep Disorders

(3-31-15)

• Dyssomnias
  • problems with initiating or maintaining sleep–problems with the amount of sleep:
    • insomnia
    • hypersomnia
• Parasomnias
  • problems with the quality of sleep–abnormal behaviors during sleep
  • narcolepsy
  • restless leg syndrome
  • night terrors
    • incubus nocturnis: nightmares, “bad dreams”, REM stage dreaming
      • child can be awakened
      • immediate recall of dream good
      • little motor activity (motor system “off line” during REM stage sleep)
      • brief (only feelings like forever)
    • pavor nocturnis: sleep terror, non-REM stage sleep disturbance
      • difficult to awaken child
      • amnesia for incident
      • frantic motor activity
      • long duration (possibly up to 15-20 minutes)