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Treatment of somnambulism with anticipatory awakening
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 8-year-old boy with a 6-year history of parasomnia (twice-weekly sleepwalking with enuresis) was treated by awakening him for 5 nights before the episodes. The sleepwalking stopped entirely. Anticipatory awakening may be a simple, inexpensive, low-risk therapy for somnambulism.