Chapter 7 Sleep-Related Movements and Scoring Techniques Birgit Högl and Raffaele Ferri Movements during sleep can occur as physiological phenomena or as the manifestations of sleep pathological conditions. In fact,…
Chapter 10 Motor Disorders During Sleep Sudhansu Chokroverty, Marco Zucconi, Federica Provini and Mauro Manconi Motor control in sleep is as complex as in wakefulness but clearly different. Sleep is…
Chapter 5 Basic Circadian Rhythms and Circadian Sleep Disorders Roneil Malkani and Phyllis C. Zee The human sleep-wake cycle is regulated by the circadian system. Although circadian rhythms are endogenously…
Vignette 2 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Associated With Cerebral Hypoxemia Mark Eric Dyken, George B. Richerson and Christine L. Glenn Video Vignette 2 An increase in the arousal threshold may predispose…
Vignette 8 Sleep Terrors Mark Eric Dyken, Deborah C. Lin-Dyken and Jeffrey Boyle Video Vignette 8 A 16-year-old girl presented with recurrent spells from sleep associated with combative behavior, with…
Vignette 6 Sleepwalking Mark Eric Dyken, Deborah C. Lin-Dyken and Siddharth Bajpai Video Vignette 6 A 22-year-old college student under significant psychosocial stressors reported being completely amnestic for spells of…
Vignette 4 Isolated Sleep Paralysis: An REM-“Sleep” Polysomnographic Phenomenon as Documented With Simultaneous Clinical and Electrophysiological Assessment Mark Eric Dyken, Deborah C. Lin-Dyken and Nivedita Jerath Video Vignette 4 A…
Vignette 3 The Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Leading to a Subdural Hemorrhage Mark Eric Dyken and Deborah C. Lin-Dyken Video Vignette 3 A 73-year-old man had 10 years…
Vignette 1 Narcolepsy—Unequivocal Diagnosis After Split-Screen, Video-Polysomnographic Analysis of a Prolonged Cataplectic Attack Mark Eric Dyken, Jason Maxfield and Deborah C. Lin-Dyken Video Vignette 1 A 30-year-old man presented with…
Vignette 7 Hypnagogic Hallucination Mark Eric Dyken, Deborah C. Lin-Dyken and Nivedita Jerath Video Vignette 7 The initial diagnostic studies of a 63-year-old man with a history of narcolepsy included…
