| Term | Definition |
|---|
| sleep walking occurs during.. | slow wave sleep (stages 3 & 4) |
| symptoms | difficult to wake, sleeptalking, range of episodes |
| after sleep walking... | forget what they've done, may feel fatigued, unrested |
| Bassetti et al 2002 | found 32% of patients reported violent incidents while sleep walking |
| Genetic factors | a cause linking with a strong family history of sleep walking |
| Hublin et al 1997 | twin study on sleep walking |
| Bassetti et al 2002 | found more than half 74 patients had a specific gene. |
| Environmental factors | a cause to do with sleep deprivation, stress, anxiety, certain drugs and alcohol |
| drug used to help sleepwalking and associated with stress | benzodiazepines |
| Pressman et al 2007 | found ingesting alcohol increased risk of sleepwalking and quantity of slow wave sleep |
| psychodynamic explanation | cause to do with freud and wish fulfilment |
| relates to fulfilment of sexual and aggressive impulses of the id | psychodynamic explanation |
| klackenberg 1982 | longitudinal study of sleepwalking children, sleepwalkers had more inhibited aggression |
| occasionally sleepwalkers are.. | seriously injured or killed could be a result of jumping through windows |
| rare cases have used sleepwalking as a defence for... | murder |
| sleep walkers ........ acting out their dreams | are not |
| sleepwalking has also been linked to a sleeping pill called... | ambien |
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