Disease relevance of Night Terrors

• The occurrence of slow wave episodes was ascertained in epileptic as well as non-epileptic affections such as affective attacks in children, night terrors, paroxysms of abdominal pain or headaches, febrile convulsions and organic brain affections without epileptic seizures [1].

Psychiatry related information on Night Terrors

• 'A child with severe night terrors and sleep-walking responds to melatonin therapy' [2].
• Sleep disorders. Simple treatment for night terrors [3].

High impact information on Night Terrors

• Adult night terrors and paroxetine [4].
• The study showed a significantly more intense orienting reaction in patients with night terrors than in normal subjects (Control Group I) [5].
• Moreover, the orienting reaction intensity in subjects with night terrors was significantly lower than in patients with symptomatic epilepsy (Control Group II) [5].
• Sleep terrors/sleepwalking--not REM behavior disorder [6].
• Pavor nocturnus as a side effect of a single daily risperidone dose [7].

Chemical compound and disease context of Night Terrors

• L -5-Hydroxytryptophan treatment of sleep terrors in children [8].
• We could not find any report of nightmares or night terrors under fluoxetine treatment [9].
• Sleep terror disorder and insomnia treated with trazodone: a case report [10].
• Bromazepam was administered in a single dose of 1.5 mg one-half hour before bedtime to study its short-term action and the effect of its discontinuation on the sleep of 6 children suffering from night terrors [11].
• A quarter of the sample at least occasionally recommends diphenhydramine and almost half suggests a psychological evaluation for children with night terrors [12].

Biological context of Night Terrors

• Action of bromazepam on sleep of children with night terrors. I. Sleep organization and heart rate [11].

Gene context of Night Terrors

• A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states [13].
• To consider the relationships among Type A-B behavior, gender, and specific types of nightmares, 780 university undergraduates were tested with Glass' version of the Jenkins Activity Survey and the Spadafora and Hunt Dream Types Survey which included the critical nightmares (fantastic nightmares, posttraumatic nightmares, and night terrors) [14].
• The N1, N2, and P3 AEP components were prolonged in latency in narcoleptic patients as compared to controls, while sleep terror patients did not differ from controls [15].

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