Concerns regarding sleep disorders in Hmong immigrants in the US emerged when an astonishingly high mortality rate of Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) was documented in Hmong men. Stress, genetics, and cardiac abnormalities interacting with disordered sleep were hypothesized as contributing factors to SUNDS. Most recently, sleep apnea has been implicated in nighttime deaths...
SummarySleep disturbances are important correlates of depression, with epidemiologic research heretofore focused on insomnia and sleepiness. This epidemiologic study’s aim was to investigate, in a community sample, depression’s relationships to other sleep disturbances: sleep paralysis (SP), hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations (HH), cataplexy – considered rapid eye movement‐related...
December 21, 2006Mariana Szklo‐coxe, Terry Young, Laurel Finn
Sleep paralysis (SP), hypnagogic=hypnopompic hallucinations (HH), and cataplexy, classic symptoms of narcolepsy, have been considered dissociated manifestations of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (1,2). Although primarily examined in clinical narcolepsy (3) or other sleep disordered patient populations (4-6), these symptoms have also been reported outside of clinical settings and across various...