From state dissociation to status dissociatus.
Sleep Medicine Reviews August 1, 2016 Elena Antelmi, Raffaele Ferri, Alex Iranzo et al.
State dissociation disorders occur when features of one state of being—wakefulness, REM sleep, or NREM sleep—intrude into another. Examples include cataplexy, sleep paralysis, REM sleep behavior disorder, and disorders of arousal. The most extreme form, status dissociatus, involves a breakdown of all recognizable states; it can occur intermittently in conditions like narcolepsy type 1 or continuously in agrypnia excitata. This review classifies the full range of diseases and disorders associated with state dissociation and status dissociatus.