Trauma associated sleep disorder: A proposed parasomnia encompassing disruptive nocturnal behaviors, nightmares, and REM without atonia in trauma survivors

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1143-1148

  Mysliwiec, Vincent ^a   O'Reilly, Brian ^b   Polchinski, Jason ^b   Kwon, Herbert P ^b   Germain, Anne ^c   Roth, Bernard J ^b  

^a 121St CSH Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital Unit 15244 APO   (South Korea)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Military; Nightmares; Posttraumatic stress disorder; REM sleep behavior disorder; Veterans

Indexed keywords

PAROXETINE; PRAZOSIN; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DISRUPTIVE NOCTURNAL BEHAVIOR; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDICAL HISTORY; NIGHT SWEAT; NIGHTMARE; NOCTURIA; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP MEDICINE; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP WALKING; SNORING; SOMNOLENCE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; YOUNG ADULT; COMPLICATION; DREAM; DRUG EFFECTS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE TONE; PARASOMNIAS; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SOLDIER; SOMNAMBULISM; SURVIVOR;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; DREAMS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MUSCLE TONUS; PARASOMNIAS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRAZOSIN; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM; SOMNAMBULISM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84908477833     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.4120     Document Type: Article

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