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A blossary on different disorders of sleep.

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Sleep sex, or sexsomnia, is a condition in which a person will engage in sexual activities while asleep. This condition falls within the broad class of sleep disorders known as parasomnias. In ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Hypnophobia, also termed clinophobia or somniphobia, is the often irrational and excessive fear of sleep. It may result from a feeling of control loss, or from repeating nightmares or anxiety over ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Somniloquy or sleep-talking is a parasomnia that refers to talking aloud while asleep. It can be quite loud, ranging from simple sounds to long speeches, and can occur many times during sleep. ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which a person, either when falling asleep or awakening, temporarily experiences an inability to move. It is a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Nocturia, also called nycturia, is defined as the complaint that the individual has to wake at night one or more times for voiding. Its causes are varied and, in many patients, difficult to ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare sleep disorder characterized by persistent episodic hypersomnia and cognitive or mood changes. Many patients also experience hyperphagia, hypersexuality and ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

Nocturnal enuresis' or nighttime urinary incontinence, commonly called bedwetting or sleepwetting, is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control usually occurs. ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Sleep disorder

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