What is parasomnia?

What is parasomnia?

Irshaad Ebrahim (Medical Director of The London Sleep Centre) gives expert video advice on: What is parasomnia?; Are parasomnias harmful?; How can parasomnias be cured? and more...

The term parasomnia, it refers to behaviors that arise out of sleep. They vary in the complexity and in the presentation. Parasomnias include things like sleep talking, tooth grinding, bruxism, sleep terrors, sleep walking and or nightmares. Parasomnias may occur in non dreaming or non REM sleep or they occur in REM, or rapid eye movement sleep.