Sleep disorders with abnormal movements

Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .

Sleep disorders with abnormal movements. Benign sleep myoclonus of infancy, Confusional arousal. Fully referenced neurology checklist.

Sleep disorders with abnormal movements

  • Benign sleep myoclonus of infancy
  • Confusional arousal
  • Excessive fragmentary myoclonus
  • Hypnic jerks
  • Hypnagogic foot tremor and alternating leg muscle activation during sleep
  • Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS)
  • Narcolepsy
  • Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
  • Periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS)
  • Propriospinal myoclonus at sleep onset
  • REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD)
  • Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
  • Sensory sleep starts
  • Sleep related bruxism
  • Sleep related eating disorders
  • Sleep related growing pains
  • Sleep related leg cramps
  • Sleep related rhythmic movement disorder
  • Sleep talking
  • Sleep terror
  • Sleep walking

References

  1. Stores G. Misdiagnosing sleep disorders as primary psychiatric conditions. Adv Psychiatr Treat 2003; 9:69-77.
  2. Stores G. Clinical diagnosis and misdiagnosis of sleep disorders. JNNP 2007; 78:1293-1297.
  3. Thorpy MJ. Classification of sleep disorders. Neurotherapeutics 2012; 9:687-701.

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