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Psychiatry, sleep medicine. Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NSRED) is a combination of a parasomnia and an eating disorder. It is a non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) parasomnia. [1] It is described as being in a specific category within somnambulism or a state of sleepwalking that includes behaviors connected to a person's conscious ...
Night eating syndrome (NES) is an eating disorder, characterized by a delayed circadian pattern of food intake. [1] Although there is some degree of comorbidity with binge eating disorder, [1] it differs from binge eating in that the amount of food consumed in the night is not necessarily objectively large nor is a loss of control over food intake required.
Sleep talking in a person with RBD. Specialty. Psychiatry, Sleep medicine. Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder or REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a sleep disorder in which people act out their dreams. It involves abnormal behavior during the sleep phase with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The major feature of RBD is loss of muscle ...
Another thing to avoid, according to the study, was eating too late at night. Eating at 9 p.m. was associated with a 28% increase in the risk of cerebrovascular disease, such as stroke.
Fatal insomnia is an extremely rare neurodegenerative prion disease that results in trouble sleeping as its hallmark symptom. [2] The majority of cases are familial (fatal familial insomnia [FFI]), stemming from a mutation in the PRNP gene, with the remainder of cases occurring sporadically (sporadic fatal insomnia [sFI]).
Parasomnia. Specialty. Sleep medicine, psychology. Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during ...
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is characterized by persistent sleepiness and often a general lack of energy, even during the day after apparently adequate or even prolonged nighttime sleep. EDS can be considered as a broad condition encompassing several sleep disorders where increased sleep is a symptom, or as a symptom of another ...
Neurology. Irregular sleep–wake rhythm disorder (ISWRD) is a rare form of circadian rhythm sleep disorder. [2][3] It is characterized by numerous naps throughout the 24-hour period, no main nighttime sleep episode, and irregularity from day to day. [4] Affected individuals have no pattern of when they are awake or asleep, may have poor ...