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• "No act is punishable if it is done involuntarily: and an involuntary act in this context - some people nowadays prefer to speak of it as 'automatism' - means an act which is done by the muscles without any control by the mind, such as a spasm, a reflex action or a convulsion; or an act done while suffering from concussion or whilst sleep-walking. ...
• "The crown, for its part, relied on a decision of the English Court of Appeal, R v Burgess, in which the court held that sleep-walking was a mental illness. ...
• He claimed he lacked mens rea because he was sleep-walking at the time. ...
• In Burgess, the court had been referred to the earlier Canadian Supreme Court decision in R v Parks 12 and noted that a number of witnesses, including experts in sleep disorders, had there given evidence to the effect that sleepwalking is not regarded as a disease of the mind, mental illness or mental disorder.
• "We accept of course that sleep is a normal condition, but the evidence in the instant case indicates that sleepwalking and particularly violence in sleep, is not normal. ...
• Burgess' actions had occurred during the course of a sleep disorder. ...
• Assuming this is a sleep associated automatism, is it an internal or external factor?.
• Fenwick's evidence was that this was not a sleep-walking episode at all but he described the features of sleepwalking as commonly including violence - although extreme violence is rare; the propensity for severe violence to recur is there. ...
• Is there any evidence that a person could formulate a plan while they were awake and then in some way ensure that they carry it out in their sleep?.
• Probably the most striking feature of what we know of what goes on in the mind during sleep is that it's very independent of waking mentation in terms of its objectives and so forth. There is a lack of control of directing our minds in sleep compared to wakefulness. ...
• The "organic" type is a disorder of the function of sleep and is not the result of psychological factors - hence the use of the descriptor "organic". The manifestation is quite specific to particular sleep-states. ...
• It would seem logical that if a disorder of sleep was such that it brought about behaviour in a person that was potentially a major threat to their safety, as well as the safety of others, then this constitutes an illness or disease. In other words there is a "functional" - as in implying a disorder of the function of sleep - disease of sleep. ...
• I was surprised to see that in Parks' case the expert had indicated that recurrence of violence during sleep walking is extremely rare. ... Both sleep apnoea (a condition common among heavy snorers in which breathing is interrupted) and sleepwalking are regarded as disorders of sleep. They are not normal phenomena found during sleep. ... The question arises as to whether any sleep disorder is a disease of the mind or a mental disorder or psychiatric illness. Sleep disorder are included in the major classificatory schemes in psychiatry and commentary on sleep disorders appears extensively in the psychiatric literature and in most standard textbooks. ... In my view, the sleep disorders we have been discussing represent. ... Thus, in my view, a sleep disorder would fit within the meaning of mental disease or natural mental infirmity as specified in s. ...

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• Sleep walkingI use to have a very bad sleep walking problem. ... I dont due it as much now Due to my sleep apnea I sleep with a C-PAP machine. ...
• Sleep WalkingI have done the sleep walking thing too. ... Also she said that I have gotten up in my sleep and went over to the garbage can, peed in it and went back to bed on a different occasion.
• I knew this was here somewhere!I have been getting some emails that warn of sleep walking as a side effect of Effexor that gradually develops over time. ...
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• The normal sleep cycle involves distinct stages from light drowsiness to deep sleep. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a different type of sleep, in which the eyes move rapidly and vivid dreaming is most common. During a night, there will be several cycles of non-REM and REM sleep. Sleep walking (somnambulism) most often occurs during deep non-REM sleep (stage 3 or stage 4 sleep) early in the night. It can occur during REM sleep near morning. ...
• In children, the cause is usually unknown but may also be related to fatigue , prior sleep loss, or anxiety. In adults, sleep walking is usually associated with a disorder of the mind but may also be seen with reactions to drugs and/or medications and alcohol, and medical conditions such as partial complex seizures. In the elderly, sleep walking may be a symptom of an organic brain syndrome or REM behavior disorders. ...
• The sleep walking activity may include simply sitting up and appearing awake while actually asleep, getting up and walking around, or complex activities such as moving furniture, going to the bathroom, dressing and undressing, and similar activities. ...
• One common misconception is that a sleep walker should not be awakened. It is not dangerous to awaken a sleep walker, although it is common for the person to be confused or disoriented for a short time on awakening. Another misconception is that a person cannot be injured when sleep walking. Actually, injuries caused by such things as tripping and loss of balance are common for sleep walkers. ...
• Sleep walking occurs at any age, but it occurs most often in children aged 6 to 12 years old. ...
• Avoid the use of alcohol or central nervous system depressants if prone to sleep walking. ...

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• I have a grandson who has walked in his sleep for years. ...
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• Dear Doctor Watkins, I have a grandson who has walked in his sleep for years. ...

•   Sleep walking Jim .
• I forgot to mention, in my previous Colorado post, that I walked in my sleep twice while I was out there. ...
• The second time (Sunday night - 10/12/2003) that I did something in my sleep, I really didnâ ™t walk anywhere. ...
• # re: Sleep walking Jim katie Posted @ 1/21/2004 4:06 PM most sleep walkers don't remember sleep walking. Sleep walking is when you are completely asleep ad are doing these things. ...
• # re: Sleep walking Jim James Geurts Posted @ 1/21/2004 4:15 PM Yep, I admit that when I wake up in mid walk or however I am, I am quite confused. ...

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• Walking during sleep; Somnambulism .
• eyes open during sleep.
• may sit up and appear awake during sleep.
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• sleep talking is incomprehensible and non-purposeful.
• If sleep walking is frequent or persistent, examination to rule out other disorders (such as partial complex seizures) may be appropriate. ...

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• Walking or talking while asleep are relatively common sleep disorders. Neither are considered harmful, provided, in the case of sleep walking. ...
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• In a new study, Stanford researchers describe a treatable medical condition which causes people to commit violent sexual acts in their sleep. Referred to as sleep sex, the nocturnal activities cited in the study range from disruptive moaning to rape-like behavior toward bed partners.

• Saturday December 13, 2003We Sleeping Wake and Walking Sleep - Montaigne .
• Each night we visit a hidden world, a kingdom of sleep that eludes scrutiny. ... Sleep consists of two stages, quiet and active, the latter known as REM, or rapid eye movement, in which we note the fluttering of a person's eyelids, or the wild rolling of a creature's eyes. ... Animals and humans sleep of necessity. Wake-sleep rhythms are controlled by deeply buried portions of the brain. ... According to the species, animals adopt characteristic postures in sleep, known as their "lie. " Horses and deer sleep standing up or lying down, while sleeping bats and sloths hang upside down. Sleeping sites usually differ from places of daytime activity, although lions, with nothing to fear, sleep anywhere they please. ... It has been suggested that only animals on a level approximating ours sleep with loss of consciousness. ... Sleep in animals differs little in essence from ours. ... Most animals, from mammals to insects and crustaceans, have periods in each 24-hour cycle when they sleep. ... Sleep rhythms are commonly initiated by alternating light and dark, although animals in the sea, especially those associated with the shoreline, are more affected by the tides.

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• Walking in Your Sleep and Other Unusual Sleep Behaviors:.
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• Parasomnias are sleep disorders in which we see a variety of behaviors that we do not think of as occurring in sleep. Walking, talking, shouting, screaming, eating, flailing about are behaviors we associate with wakefulness. ...
• Contrary to the common belief that sleepwalkers are acting out their dreams, sleepwalking does not occur during REM sleep, which is when we typically dream. It actually occurs when we are in the deepest stages of sleep, stages 3 and 4. The behavior occurs in a state between deep sleep and wakefulness and the disorder has been classified as a "disorder of arousal. ...
• In adults, because the disorder is relatively uncommon and more dangerous, proper evaluation by a sleep expert is important to ensure correct diagnosis and treatment. ...
• Night terrors (or sleep terrors) is a first cousin of sleepwalking and it, too, is considered a disorder of arousal. The major difference is that sleep terrors has the added feature of intense emotion: terror. ... As with sleepwalking, the subjects are caught between sleep and wakefulness. Everything said above about sleepwalking applies to sleep terror, including the importance of protecting the subject from the danger of their moving about in a confused state. ...

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• I’ve been married for about 7 years now and periodically my husband will do some strange things in his sleep. ...
• He appears to awaken from sleep, then he starts talking gibberish and occasionally feels like he’s being attacked (which is why he sometimes hits you), and in the morning he doesn’t remember a thing! He’s not the greatest bed partner, but understanding what is occurring during these events most likely will help both of you to get a good night’s sleep. ...
• Confusional arousals actually are partial awakenings from sleep. ...
• These arousals usually occur during the first three hours of sleep. ... Provided your husband doesn’t hurt himself or you, the best strategy is to gently soothe him back to sleep. ...
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• Usually no specific treatment for sleep walking is needed.
• In some cases, short-acting tranquilizers have been helpful in reducing the incidence of sleep walking. ...
• Sleep walking may or may not reduce with age. ...
• A complication is injury sustained during sleep activities. ...
• Sleep walking usually does not require a visit to your health care provider. ...
• sleep walking is accompanied by other symptoms.
• sleep walking is frequent or persistent.
• sleep walking includes potentially dangerous activities (such as driving).

• Walking in Your Sleep and Other Unusual Sleep Behaviors:.
• Why Can't You Sleep?: Understanding Sleep Problems.
• Paying the Price of a Poor Night's Sleep.
• Gaining Control Over Sleep Problems.
• Discussing Sleep Problems With Your Doctor.
• Parasomnias are sleep disorders in which we see a variety of behaviors that we do not think of as occurring in sleep. Walking, talking, shouting, screaming, eating, flailing about are behaviors we associate with wakefulness. ...
• Contrary to the common belief that sleepwalkers are acting out their dreams, sleepwalking does not occur during REM sleep, which is when we typically dream. It actually occurs when we are in the deepest stages of sleep, stages 3 and 4. The behavior occurs in a state between deep sleep and wakefulness and the disorder has been classified as a "disorder of arousal. ...
• In adults, because the disorder is relatively uncommon and more dangerous, proper evaluation by a sleep expert is important to ensure correct diagnosis and treatment. ...
• Night terrors (or sleep terrors) is a first cousin of sleepwalking and it, too, is considered a disorder of arousal. The major difference is that sleep terrors has the added feature of intense emotion: terror. ... As with sleepwalking, the subjects are caught between sleep and wakefulness. Everything said above about sleepwalking applies to sleep terror, including the importance of protecting the subject from the danger of their moving about in a confused state. ...
• As mentioned above in the sleep terror discussion, subjects and parents must understand that the behavior does not suggest the individual is tormented. ...

• Sleep disorders.
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• Sleep disorders involve any difficulties related to sleeping, including difficulty falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at inappropriate times, excessive total sleep time, or abnormal behaviors associated with sleep. ...
• Problems with adhering to a regular sleep schedule .
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• Respiratory muscle weakness associated sleep disorder .
• Sleep apnea more commonly affects obese people, but it may affect anyone with a short neck or a small jaw, regardless of weight. The disorder causes breathing to stop intermittently during sleep, resulting in the person being awakened repeatedly. People with sleep apnea often they have difficulty achieving prolonged deep sleep. ...

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• Sleepwalkers (somnambulists) are aroused out of their deep sleep during motor activity, which usually includes, but is not limited to, walking. A sleepwalker can go back to sleep some place other than bed, depending on how far he or she has walked. ...
• Evidence from casework and published sleep diaries indicates that sleepwalkers often feel they are alone with their condition. ...

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• Sleep Walking (Somnambulism).
• Sleep walking is quite common. Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleep walking. ... There seems to be some inherited component; children are more likely to sleep walk if their parents did. ...
• Sleepwalking is a series of complex behaviors that are initiated during slow wave sleep and result in walking during sleep. ... There are stories of sleep walkers driving cars, boarding planes, going swimming, and performing other complex actions. ...
• • Walking during sleep (typically in the first third of sleep episode).
• • Sleep study demonstrates the onset during deep sleep (stage 3 and 4).
• How serious is sleep walking?.
• Most patients experience sleep walking infrequently (less than once per month) and those episodes do not result in harm to the patients. ...
• What can be done about sleep walking?.
• • If you have to spend some nights outside your house consider the same precautions and notify the people you are staying with (or the hotel receptionist) about your sleep problem.
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• Why do we sleep? Why do we dream?.
• - Does sleep have a purpose? Do you really know what its like to dream? The answers may surprise you. ...
• FIRST, WHAT'S THE EVOLUTIONARY PURPOSE OF SLEEP?.
• Every night we shut our eyes, slip the moorings of consciousness and enter the confused limbo of sleep and dreams. But why? Couldn't evolution have allowed us to take a nightly rest without this apparently dangerous loss of awareness? Or do we need to sleep because the brain has to have its time in dreams? .
• Despite nearly 2,000 sleep clinics around the world investigating this vital subject, scientists still seem, ahem, a little in the dark about the answer. ... Sleep is a universal among animals. ... Fish and reptiles also have their drowsy periods while birds and mammals have proper sleep cycles.
• Humans average seven and a half hours sleep a night. ... Giraffes sleep as little as two hours a night while elephants and cattle sleep about four. But for the rest of the mammalian kingdom, sleep can seem to be what they do best. ...
• And once scientists began tapping electrodes to the heads of sleeping animals and humans, they found that all higher mammals and birds share a similar sleep cycle. Recordings of the brain's EEG rhythms - the crackle of neural activity - show that sleep has a distinct pattern with phases that in humans follows a 90 minute period. First we descend through four increasingly deep stages of slow wave sleep - so named because the EEG rhythm changes from a busy jagged buzz to a slow relaxed throb. At its deepest, it becomes very difficult to rouse a person from slow wave sleep. ... This is also the time when people are liable to sleep walk (see box) or, in children, wet the bed. Then after an hour and a half of this slow wave slumber, the sleeper's brain will rise back through the levels before eventually convulsing with its first period of REM - a sleep stage as dramatic as it is misunderstood. ...

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• Walking during sleep; Somnambulism .
• A sleep disorder characterized by walking or other activity while seemingly still asleep. ...
• The normal sleep cycle involves distinct stages from light drowsiness to deep sleep. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a different type of sleep, in which the eyes move rapidly and vivid dreaming is most common. During a night, there will be several cycles of non-REM and REM sleep. Sleep walking (somnambulism) most often occurs during deep non-REM sleep (stage 3 or stage 4 sleep) early in the night. It can occur during REM sleep near morning.
• In children, the cause is usually unknown but may also be related to fatigue, prior sleep loss, or anxiety. In adults, sleep walking is usually associated with a disorder of the mind but may also be seen with reactions to drugs and/or medications and alcohol, and medical conditions such as partial complex seizures. In the elderly, sleep walking may be a symptom of an organic brain syndrome or REM behavior disorders.
• The sleep walking activity may include simply sitting up and appearing awake while actually asleep, getting up and walking around, or complex activities such as moving furniture, going to the bathroom, dressing and undressing, and similar activities. ...
• One common misconception is that a sleep walker should not be awakened. It is not dangerous to awaken a sleep walker, although it is common for the person to be confused or disoriented for a short time on awakening. Another misconception is that a person cannot be injured when sleep walking. Actually, injuries caused by such things as tripping and loss of balance are common for sleep walkers.

• Often depression is accompanied by sleep disorders such as insomnia, including early-morning awakening and by feelings of greatly lowered self-worth. ... Some depressed people may in fact experience an irresistible urge to sleep or rest all through the day because of their lowered state of awareness. ...
• Other symptoms accompanying depression include: changes in appetite, feelings of guilt, failure, and worthlessness, thoughts of death, fatigue and difficulty concentrating, withdrawal, inactivity, slow speech, walking slow, irritability, confusion, crying easily, inability to enjoy things, insecurity, anxiety, sore shoulders and neck, pain in the lower back, lowered libido, binge eating of junk food, inability to show affection, disorganization, trouble getting dressed or choosing clothes, feelings of regret for past decisions, inability to function, feeling that no one understands, boredom, fear, desire to be taken care of, paranoia, irrational fears, and easy frustration. ...
• Meditation, regular aerobic exercise (30 minutes, 5 times a week), good nutrition, proper sleep, and avoiding alcohol, caffeine and excessive sugar are extremely helpful in fighting depression. ...

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