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Lack of Sleep Leads to Sleepwalking

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When my husband was diagnosed with sleep apnea in the early nineties,...

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A study done by researchers at the University of Montreal suggests that sleep deprivation triggers sleepwalking.  The researchers studied 40 patients suspected of sleepwalking. After being deprived of sleep for 25 hours, sleepwalking increased. There is, at present, no proven method of diagnosin...
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    Sue
    Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 12:51 PM

    Hi Florence.  Hope all is well. 

     

    This is an awesome post.  I had no idea that sleep derprivation and sleep walking were linked like that.  Thanks for all the information you provided too, I suspect others are reading it as I saying, "I do that.  I do that, and that too!"

     

    For more on Sleepwalking, see your material under our Sleep Guides section. 

     

    All the best, sue (moderator) 

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    Florence Cardinal
    Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 11:33 PM

    Hello Sue,

    I do hope this reaches others who may not be aware that they have a sleeping/eating disorder. My husband didn't have narolepsy, but as his sleep apnea became worse, he developed a sleep eating problem.

     

    Florence

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