Sleep paralysis in the elderly
Journal of Sleep Research June 1, 1999 Yun Kwok Wing, Helen Chiu, Tony Leung et al.
SummaryIsolated sleep paralysis (SP) is a common sleep phenomenon that is highly colored by indigenous beliefs. In Hong Kong Chinese, the ‘ghost oppression phenomenon’ (GO) has been shown to be descriptively identical to SP. The prevailing concept is that the majority of cases with SP have their onset during adolescence, but the lack of any systematic study on an older population means that...