Sleep paralysis

Dahlitz, M.; Parkes, J. D.

doi:10.1016/0140-6736(93)92992-3

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“…SP occurs most commonly in women (Pires et al, 2007;Sharpless and Barber, 2011) and when the body is in supine position (Chilcott et al, 1998;Sharpless etal., 2010). The prevalence of SP among the general population is controversial, ranging from 5 to 62% (Dahlitz & Parkes, 1993). In a sample of nearly two thousand Canadian university students, Spanos et al (1995) found that 21% of these subjects experienced SP; however, in this sample there was no significant inter-gender difference.…”

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“…Cheyne & Girard (2009) consider that out-of-body experiences and SP hallucinations have different neurobiological basis. Dahlitz & Parkes (1993) speculate that a lack of synchrony between changes in brain activity and muscle atonia is the mechanism responsible for bodily immobilization during SP.…”

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“…SP is accompanied by frightening, and often fantastic, hallucinations and delusions (Dahlitz & Parkes, 1993), thus different societies interpreted it under a supernatural or metaphysical perspective (Hinton et al, 2005). During the episode, all the skeletal muscles are virtually 'paralyzed' , resulting in an inability to move or speak.…”

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“…Anxiety may then supervene. Occurrence of SP in some families raises the possibility of a genetic mechanism (Dahlitz & Parkes, 1993). Cholinergic drugs (e.g.…”

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“…Sleep paralysis is associated with either hypnagogic hallucinations (that occur at the onset of sleep) or hypnopompic ones (when waking up) (Dahlitz & Parkes, 1993). Cheyne et al (1999) grouped the hallucinations associated with SP into three types: (a) "Intruder"; (b) "Unusual Bodily Experiences"; (c) "Incubus. "…”

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Alien Abductions: A Case of Sleep Paralysis

Siddiqui¹,

Qureshi²,

Ghamdi³

2017

Sleep Hypn

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Sleep paralysis (SP) is a benign, transient episode of immobility lasting a few seconds to a few minutes that can occur while falling asleep or on awakening. It is a condition of unknown etiology. During the episode, all the skeletal muscles are virtually 'paralyzed', resulting in an inability to move or speak but individual remains conscious. Because it occurs in a clear sensorium, the individual is able to describe the experience vividly. It is associated with extreme anxiety, phobia, and nervousness, restless and, sometime, hallucinations. We present a case of 35 year old male personal driver, who had recurrent episode of sleep paralysis, we must rule out physical, psychological or social suffering and the subject must be examined by sleep clinicians or psychiatrist. "Supernatural" experiences associated to SP have been interpreted as pathological. We must enrich the knowledge about these experiences of SP and their psychological and cultural aspects. SP may be misdiagnosed as being due to depression and psychosis (e.g. schizophrenia) and alternatively depending on how they construe these experiences.

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“…Anxiety may then supervene. Occurrence of SP in some families raises the possibility of a genetic mechanism (Dahlitz & Parkes, 1993). Cholinergic drugs (e.g.…”

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Alien Abductions: A Case of Sleep Paralysis

Siddiqui¹,

Qureshi²,

Ghamdi³

2017

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Moclobemide-associated sleep paralysis

Benazzi¹

1998

Hum. Psychopharmacol. Clin. Exp.

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Sirs,A patient showing sleep paralysis associated with the reversible MAO-A inhibitor moclobemide is presented. A MEDLINE search did not ®nd similar reports.A 70-year-old man with major depressive disorder recurrence was treated with moclobemide, 150 mg/day for 1 week, then 300 mg/day in the morning. The night he took his ®rst 300 mg he had ®ve episodes during sleep, each one lasting for seconds, of wakefulness associated with inability to move, speak, breathe, and terror. He had never had similar episodes in the past. He continued to take moclobemide for a week, and every night sleep was interrupted by four to ®ve brief episodes of paralysis and terror. Then moclobemide was discontinued for 3 days, during which the sleep episodes did not reappear. Moclobemide was then restarted, 300 mg/ day in the morning, for 2 weeks. Sleep episodes reappeared. Moclobemide was again discontinued. During the following 3 weeks, sleep episodes did not reappear. During this trial he remained mildly depressed. He had been taking the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor fosinopril, 20 mg/day, for 3 years, for hypertension. This patient's sleep episodes correspond to descriptions of sleep paralysis (American Psychiatric Association, 1994;Dahlitz and Parkes, 1993). This on±o±on±o trial suggests a causal relationship between moclobemide and sleep paralysis. During this period he did not have sleep disorders associated with sleep paralysis (narcolepsy, cataplexy, sleep-related hallucinations).Sleep paralysis is caused by a dissociation between alertness and rapid eye movements (REM)-associated muscle atonia (Hishikawa and Shimizu, 1995). It may respond to REM-suppressing antidepressants (Sharpley and Cowen, 1995): tricyclic antidepressants (Aldrich, 1992;Mitler et al., 1990). irreversible nonselective MAO inhibitors (Gernaat et al., 1995), and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (Koran and Raghavan, 1993;Dahlitz and

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Approach to a Patient with Narcolepsy

Ravichand

Radtke

2013

Sleep Medicine in Neurology

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Sleep paralysis

Cited by 83 publications

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Alien Abductions: A Case of Sleep Paralysis

Alien Abductions: A Case of Sleep Paralysis

Moclobemide-associated sleep paralysis

Approach to a Patient with Narcolepsy

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