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37: Parasomnias
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Published:November 2023
Priya Prashad, MD, MSCE, DABSM, "Parasomnias", Pediatric Pulmonology, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, Michael J. Light, MD, FAAP, Kristin Van Hook, MD, MPH, FAAP
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Parasomnias are undesirable physical events or experiences that occur during entry into sleep, within sleep, or during arousal from sleep. They may occur during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, or transitions to and from sleep.1
Many parasomnias emerge and peak during the childhood years, the most common being the arousal parasomnias: confusional arousals, sleep terrors, nightmares, and somnambulism or sleepwalking.1 Confusional arousals occur in 17.3% of children aged 3 to 13 years. Sleepwalking has an 18.3% lifetime prevalence, and sleep terrors are experienced by 1% to 6.5% of children and 2.2% of adults....
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