Night-terrors Sentence Examples

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  • Stage Four Sleep is the period when Sleep Terror Disorder (also known as Night Terrors or pavor nocturnes) occurs.

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  • Unlike a sleep disorder like snoring, it is very difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of night terrors.

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  • This leads researchers to believe that night terrors might be caused by a chemical reaction in the body that causes a "misfire" in the brain.

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  • What causes night terrors can vary from the stress felt by a three year old during a family divorce to a medication-induced night terror in an adult.

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  • The doctor can help you determine if these are night terrors and if there is anything you can do to minimize their occurrence.

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  • Of the three types of insomnia, chronic insomnia is the type that can last for years at a time and is most often associated with a primary sleeping disorder (restless leg syndrome, sleep apnea , night terrors and sleepwalking).

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  • Children in this age group tend to be more troubled with nightmares and night terrors than younger children.

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  • Childhood night terrors are a parasomnia, or partial-sleep disorder, common in young children.

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  • Sleepwalking, another parasomnia disorder, may also occur in as many as one third of children with night terrors.

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  • Childhood night terrors occur more frequently in boys.

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  • Childhood night terrors appear to be a normal physiological process of the immature and developing nervous system.

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  • Hypnosis, biofeedback, and various relaxation techniques have been used with some success to reduce or eliminate occurrence of childhood night terrors.

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  • Maintaining a quiet home without sudden disruptive noise will minimize some of the external stimuli that may trigger night terrors.

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  • Childhood night terrors are usually outgrown by the age of seven and rarely persist beyond adolescence.

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  • This may help to break the disruptive sleep pattern that has resulted in the night terrors.

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  • Childhood night terrors are alarming to witness.

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  • Childhood night terrors are a form of confusional arousal.

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  • Other parasomnias, such as night terrors and night walking, may call for medication if other interventions and treatments fail to relieve seriously disruptive symptoms.

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