Sleep terrors (pavor nocturnus)
Evidence-based neurology checklist on sleep terrors (pavor nocturnus): Motor features Sitting or standing up Bolting or running away Agitation Violence and injury Frantic searching Recoiling or evasive behaviour Aggressive response to attempts at consolation or restraint Verbal features Emotional…
Motor features
- Sitting or standing up
- Bolting or running away
- Agitation
- Violence and injury
- Frantic searching
- Recoiling or evasive behaviour
- Aggressive response to attempts at consolation or restraint
Verbal features
Emotional features
Autonomic features
Other features
Disorders associated with sleep terrors
Treatment
References
- Fleetham JA, Fleming JA. Parasomnias. CMAJ 2014; 186:E273-E280.
- Derry CP, Harvey AS, Walker MC, Duncan JS, Berkovic SF. NREM arousal parasomnias and their distinction from nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: a video EEG analysis. Sleep 2009; 32:1637-1644.
- Ohayon MM, Guilleminault C, Priest RG. Night terrors, sleepwalking, and confusional arousals in the general population: their frequency and relationship to other sleep and mental disorders. J Clin Psychiatry 1999; 60:268-276.
- Derry CP, Duncan JS, Berkovic SF. Paroxysmal motor disorders of sleep: the clinical spectrum and differentiation from epilepsy. Epilepsia 2006; 47:1775-1791.
