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	American Family Physician: Sleepwalking - includes patient notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Somnambulism belongs to the group of parasomnias, which are disorders associated with sleep, sleep-stage transition or partial arousal.
		The frequent onset of somnambulism in childhood and its termination by late adolescence strongly suggest that developmental factors, such as a delay in maturation, may have a role in this disorder.
		Somnambulism was once thought to be a form of dissociative hysteria, but electroen-cephalographic (EEG) studies, MMPI profiles and psychiatric interviews do not support this view.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n3_v51/ai_16654151 (1324 words)

	Sleep Review article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Somnambulism is considered a parasomnia that is an undesirable or abnormal event that occurs during sleep.
		Somnambulism may consist of simple roaming or may involve attempts to “escape” by opening doors or windows or by running downstairs.
		Somnambulism occurs benignly in 30% to 40% of children; however, if episodes are disrupting the household or placing the child at risk for injury, small doses of benzodiazepines such as clonazepam at bedtime have been shown to be effective.
	www.sleepreviewmag.com /Articles.ASP?articleid=S0309F03 (1891 words)

	Abstracts of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung
		These include narcolepsy, lethargy, ambulatory automatism, periodic amnesia, somnambulism, and pathological lying, which are sometimes attributed to epilepsy, hysteria, or neurasthenia and sometimes described as diseases in themselves.
		Detailed records of a case of somnambulism in a 15-year-old girl, with powers of a spiritualistic medium, are presented, whose family had exhibited symptoms of eccentricity and personality disorders.
		In the presentation of a case of somnambulism in a young girl, the exceptional course of the disorder is discussed.
	www.fundacion-jung.com.ar /ingles/cuadernos/cuaderno14.htm (3802 words)

	Somnambulism and the I-Function
		Somnambulism, or sleepwalking, belongs to a group of parasomnias.
		This disorder of arousal is characterized by complex motor behaviors initiated during stages 3 and 4 of non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep (slow-wave sleep) (3).
		In somnambulism, the I-function is inactive and the sleepwalker is unconscious of his/her behavior.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro03/web2/tlitvine.html (1102 words)

	Sleep Disorders - Sleepwalking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While it is predominantly pre-adolescents who suffer from somnambulism, it is also observed in adults, although the frequency and severity of incidents increase with age.
		Somnambulism is most common among children from the ages of 4 to 12.
		The more common "type" of somnambulism, that affecting children, is less intrusive and goes away faster than the kind associated more with adults.
	www.denversleep.com /Sleepwalk.html (1049 words)

	sleepwalking
		Sleepwalking (Somnambulism) is a series of complex behaviors that are initiated during slow wave sleep and result in walking during sleep.
		Sleep walking (somnambulism) most often occurs during deep non-REM sleep (stage 3 or stage 4 sleep) early in the night.
		Sleepwalking (somnambulism) is fairly common, especially among children.
	www.crescentlife.com /disorders/sleepwalking.htm (1195 words)

	Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine: Anomalous Nervous and Mental Diseases (Part 2)
		Somnambulism, or, as it has been called, noctambulation, is a curious phase of nocturnal cerebration analogous to the hypnotic state, or double consciousness occasionally observed in epileptics.
		Both Hippocrates and Aristotle discuss somnambulism, and it is said that the physician Galen was a victim of this habit.
		Somnambulism may assume such a serious phase as to result in the commission of murder.
	www.oslermarine.com /anomalies17b.html (12379 words)

	AKSG - New Westminster, BC, The Spirits' Book (Question 455)
		The phenomena of natural somnambulism occur spontaneously and independently of any known external cause; but, in persons endowed with a special organization, they may be produced artificially through the action of the mesmeric agent.
		Natural somnambulism is a notorious fact, the reality of which few now dispute, notwithstanding the marvellous character of the phenomena it presents.
		For the spiritist, somnambulism is more than a physical phenomenon; it is a light thrown on the subject of psychology; it is a state in which we can study the soul, because in it the soul shows itself, so to say, without covering.
	www.allankardec.ca /s1.php?i=455 (1746 words)

	Hypnosis.com and NLP.com Community Forums - Somnambulism during self hypnosis?
		Somnambulism is a particular hypnotic state where you are significantly more suggestible.
		Somnambulism is the state where you will completely and readily accept a suggestion of anesthesia or amnesia.
		Somnambulism is also the state where you readily accept suggestions of hallucination.
	forum.hypnosis.com /showthread.php?t=573 (1451 words)

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		He filed a claim for VA benefits, based on the alleged onset of somnambulism during this period of service, in 1991; his application for such benefits was received by the RO on February 14, of that year.
		Following development of the veteran's claim by the RO, it was determined that service connection for somnambulism was warranted, based on a review of the evidence indicating that the veteran was first noted to be sleepwalking in March 1980.
		In February 1993, the veteran testified at a hearing on appeal that he began experiencing somnambulism in 1980 and that he was not treated therefor after service until after his VA examination in 1991.
	www.va.gov /vetapp/files2/9410584.txt (1126 words)

	Somnambulism
		Somnambulism is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Somnambulism Lit., "sleep-walking ", or moving, acting, writing, reading and performing every function of waking consciousness in one’s sleep, with utter oblivion of the fact on awakening.
		In addition, there are similar signs of a besieging influence at first, as when the child grows peevish, capricious, and restless, wants improper food, is listless at school, suffers with disturbed sleep and night-terrors; and later begin the convulsive movements in the muscles which are naturally under the control of the conscious will.
	www.experiencefestival.com /somnambulism (1177 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With respect to the claim for service connection for somnambulism, the veteran's service medical records show that he was evaluated for that disorder, and service records submitted by the veteran indicate that he was apparently administratively separated from service due to somnambulism.
		However, it is not clear on what basis that diagnosis was rendered, i.e., whether somnambulism was diagnosed by history, as an acute disorder, or a chronic disorder satisfying the diagnostic criteria of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
		The Board would also note that the RO has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for somnambulism on the basis that the disorder is a constitutional or developmental abnormality, but there does not appear to be evidence of record which supports that medical determination.
	www.va.gov /vetapp/files2/9414454.txt (831 words)

	Hypnosis.com and NLP.com Community Forums - learning with(under) hypnosis
		Somnambulism, from the latin "sonus" (sleep) and "ambulare" (to walk) is understood and demonstrated the world over as belonging to deep trance phenomena.
		No, (respectfully) they were both in somnambulism if they achieved the suggestible anesthesia, just like ice is always frozen water and if you have met the conditions for water to freeze, you always have ice.
		Somnambulism is the name given to that state of suggestible anesthesia.
	forum.hypnosis.com /archive/index.php/t-440.html (6589 words)

	felida.html
		Somnambulism is a waking sleep; and post hypnotic phenomena involve the intrusion of sleep states into waking life (James, 1995).
		If inducing a state of complete somnambulism involved returning Marceline to the healthy state she had enjoyed as a child, then her “awakening,” during which she forgot the state of health, was nothing but a relapse.
		As Janet began to think of Marceline in terms of recovery and relapse, the notion that her different states were distinct personalities and the idea that somnambulism was a form of sleep began to make less sense to him.
	bms.brown.edu /HistoryofPsychiatry/felida.html (5055 words)

	rp1886.html
		During waking as during somnambulism, L. was completely anaesthetic; she had no cutaneous sensibility either on the right or the left and did not appreciate pain, heat or contact.
		L. being in an established state of somnambulism, I make the suggestion: “When I have struck twelve blows with my hands, you will go back to sleep.” As we had already established the suggestion did not appear to enter into her consciousness.
		Little by little through specific suggestions, repeated during somnambulism, I made the most severe of the symptoms of her hysteria disappear: the headaches, the convulsions, the hysteriogenic points etc. The illness diminished day by day, but to my great surprise her hypnotic sleep diminished at the same time.
	bms.brown.edu /HistoryofPsychiatry/rp1886.html (5786 words)

	From Somnambulism to the Archetypes - The French Roots of Jung's Split With Freud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hypnosis, hysteria, and spiritualism are a variants of somnambulism, which, in psychological parlance at the turn of the century, referred to any rather complex act performed while asleep, in trance, or in some other "altered state of consciousness" -- to use the expression in vogue today.
		She also had periods of somnambulism in which she would be talkative, have an appetite and eat, or do her bookkeeping.
		In view of the difficulties that oppose the future character, the somnambulisms have an eminently teleological significance, in that they give the individual who would otherwise inevitably succumb, the means of victory.
	www.jrhaule.net /somn-atps.html (8195 words)

	Somnambulism or Sleepwalking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Somnam'bulis'm or Sleepwalking, a peculiar activity of the mental functions during sleep, in which the subject moves and acts as one awake, though without consciousness.
		Walking in sleep is the most noticeable, but not the most marvelous, characteristic of somnambulism.
		The condition incited by hypnotism is an artificial somnambulism.
	www.factopia.com /practical-reference-vol5/somnambulism-sleepwalking.htm (200 words)

	Somnambulism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(4) The precise dysfunctional mechanism of the brain and the cause of somnambulism are not determined.
		Various possible causes of somnambulism are known, however, none are definite.
		I think that to further study or research the dysfunctional mechanism of somnambulism, one must also consider the psychological aspect along with the brain.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper3/Konno3.html (888 words)

	Remarks - Somnambulism and Crime (by Bill Nye)
		Regarding the causes of dreams and somnambulism, there are many theories, all of which are more or less untenable.
		My own idea, given, of course, in a plain, crude way, is that thoughts originate on the inside of the brain and then go at once to the surface, where they have their photographs taken, with the understanding that the negatives are to be preserved.
		In this way the thought may afterward be duplicated back to the thinker in the form of a dream, and, if the impulse be strong enough, muscular action and somnambulism may result.
	www.authorama.com /remarks-b-18.html (806 words)

	Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma, by Anthony A. Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Somnambulism, dissociation, double consciousness or periodical amnesia, hysteria, neurasthenia, and the concepts of a subconscious, subliminal, hidden, or secondary self are a few of the terms (or constructs) which have all been associated at one time or another with discussions of the condition which is more popularly known as multiple (or, incorrectly, split) personality.
		During that era as you may be aware, animal magnetism, somnambulic medical healing, religious revivalism, communistic societies, spiritualism, the "mind-cure," and phrenology were very much a part of the contemporary scene.
		Disorders in this group are differentiated in part by the presence of peculiarities in the realm of memory function and include unusual states such as fugue, somnambulism, and amnesia.
	www.sruweb.com /~walsh/mollie.html (8390 words)

	Military Medicine: Zolpidem tartrate and somnambulism
		A recent search of the psychopharmacological literature revealed only two reported cases of somnambulism occurring after the patient had taken 10 mg of zolpidem tartrate for insomnia.
		Mendelson' implies that a history of childhood somnambulism may be a factor in individuals who have a somnambulistic response to zolpidem.
		According to the observations of Nicholson and Pascoe2 regarding the age of subjects exposed to zolpidem and its effects on slow-wave (delta) sleep, only young adults (not middle-aged adults) are noted to have an increase in slow-wave sleep.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_199909/ai_n8854569 (1137 words)

	Somnambulism - Definition of Somnambulism - Somnambulism in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		See : Somnambulation.] A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
		It is evident, that if an act should be done by a sleep walker, while totally unconscious of his act, he would not be liable to punishment, :because the intention (q.v.) and will (q.v.) would be wanting.
		Take, for :example, the following singular case: A monk late one evening, in the presence of the prior of the convent, while in a state of somnambulism, :entered the room of the prior, his eyes open but fixed, his features :contracted into a frown, and with a knife in his hand.
	www.dictionarywords.net /find/word/Somnambulism (404 words)

	Korean Air cargo plane crash
		Obsessions fundamental to the functions of our instinctual essence the "biological clock" the circadian rhythm, or the importance/dominance by it of the mind are exploited with somnambulism, naturally in this modern demonstration.
		The circadian rhythm and somnambulism could be responsible.
		The Moslem people unconsciously induct their children with somnambulism and later instruction concerning sexuality may have exactly the same effect when the unconscious mind, incapable of rational thought, compulsively tries to instruct the me to "do not" be sexual in their thoughts of women and actually causes the thoughts they are trying to stop.
	www.truthasaur.com /world/korean_air_crash.html (609 words)

	Journal SLEEP
		1.3 MB Summary: A case of a homicide and an attempted homicide during presumed sleepwalking is reported in which somnambulism was the legal defense and led to an acquittal.
		The evidence supporting the probability that this act occurred during an episode of somnambulism and sleep-related confusional arousal is reviewed and weighed.
		This evidence includes personal and family history of somnambulism and related disorders; neurological, psychiatric and psychological assessments; presence of possible precipitating factors; and polysomnographic data.
	www.journalsleep.org /Citation/Sleepdata.asp?citationid=928 (170 words)

	Chapter Solver <i>to</i> Somniculous of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
		Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.
		Whether this was an intentional and waking departure, or a somnambulistic leave-taking and walking in her sleep, may remain a subject of contention.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1210/24092/6.html (149 words)

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		Their normal state may be compared to that of lucid somnambulism among you; and it is for this reason that they manifest themselves to you more easily than those who are incarnated in bodies of a grosser nature."
		The phenomena of natural somnambulism occur spontaneously and independently of any known external cause; but, in persons endowed with a special organisation, they may be produced artificially through the action of the mesmeric agent.
		The intellectual and scientific inferiority of a somnambulism in his waking state, therefore, proves nothing against his possession of the knowledge he may display in his lucid state.
	www.lsi.usp.br /~jessian/spirit/tsb.b2.c8b.html (3856 words)

	Sleepwalking - TheBestLinks.com - Somnambulism, Automobile, Comic book, Cartoon, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Somnambulism, Sleepwalking, Automobile, Comic book, Cartoon, Hollywood, Murder...
		Sleepwalking or somnambulism is a sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness while asleep.
		While it is more common in children (1-17% of children, more frequent in boys), sleepwalking can affect people of any age.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Somnambulism.html (303 words)

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