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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Neurologic Manifestations > Sleep Wake Disorders > Parasomnias
Nervous System Diseases > Neurologic Manifestations > Sleep Wake Disorders > Parasomnias
Mental Disorders > Sleep Wake Disorders > Parasomnias

Preferred term

Parasomnias  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Drunkennesses, Sleep
  • Drunkenness, Sleep
  • Neonatal Sleep Myoclonus, Benign
  • Paroxysm, Sleep Sensory
  • Paroxysms, Sleep Sensory
  • Sensory Paroxysm, Sleep
  • Sensory Paroxysms, Sleep
  • Sleep Drunkenness
  • Sleep Drunkennesses
  • Sleep Related Abnormal Swallowing Syndrome
  • Sleep-Related Abnormal Swallowing Syndrome
  • Sleep Sensory Paroxysm
  • Sleep Sensory Paroxysms

Note

  • do not confuse x-ref BENIGN NEONATAL SLEEP MYOCLONUS with MYOCLONUS, NOCTURNAL and MYOCLONUS, SLEEP see MYOCLONUS

Scope note

  • Movements or behaviors associated with sleep, sleep stages, or partial arousals from sleep that may impair sleep maintenance. Parasomnias are generally divided into four groups: arousal disorders, sleep-wake transition disorders, parasomnias of REM sleep, and nonspecific parasomnias. (From Thorpy, Sleep Disorders Medicine, 1994, p191)

History note

  • 2000

In other languages

  • parasomniat

    Finnish

  • parasomnia
  • uneen liittyvä erityishäiriö
  • uneen liittyvät erityishäiriöt
  • Parasomnier

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020447

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