Elena Antelmi, Raffaele Ferri, Alex Iranzo, Isabelle Arnulf, Yves Dauvilliers, Kailash P Bhatia, Rocco Liguori, Carlos H Schenck, Giuseppe Plazzi
The states of being are conventionally defined by the simultaneous occurrence of behavioral, neurophysiological and autonomic descriptors. State dissociation disorders are due to the intrusion of features typical of a different state into an ongoing state. Disorders related to these conditions are classified according to the ongoing main state and comprise: 1) Dissociation from prevailing wakefulness as seen in hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations, automatic behaviors, sleep drunkenness, cataplexy and sleep paralysis 2) Dissociation from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep as seen in REM sleep behavior disorder and lucid dreaming and 3) Dissociation from NREM sleep as seen in the disorders of arousal...
August 2016: Sleep Medicine Reviews