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. 2018 Jun 4:8:562.
doi: 10.7916/D8S4888G. eCollection 2018.

Rockin' Yourself Asleep

Femke Dijkstra  1   2 , Mineke Viaene  1   3 , Inge Beijer  1   3 , Harald de Cauwer  2   3
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Rockin' Yourself Asleep

Femke Dijkstra et al. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). .

Abstract

Background: Sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder occurs frequently in childhood with a minority of patients having persistent symptoms in adolescence.

Phenomenology shown: We describe a 14-year-old female showing a typical example of head banging at onset of sleep.

Educational value: Sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder usually has a benign and self-limiting nature and medication might only be warranted in cases of severe sleep disruption or frequent injuries.

Keywords: Sleep disorders; headbanging; polysomnography; sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder.

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Conflict of interest statement

Funding: None. Conflict of Interests: The authors report no conflict of interest. Ethics Statement: This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards detailed in the Declaration of Helsinki. All patients that appear on video have provided written informed consent; authorization for the videotaping and for publication of the videotape was provided.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Polysomnographic findings during Video 1. This 1-minute polysomnographic epoch (150 mV) with electroencephalography (EEG) and mentalis muscle electromyography (EMG) recordings shows non-Rapid Eye Movement sleep interrupted by an arousal (black arrow), after which the patient starts headbanging (green arrow). The rhythmic movement artifacts on the EEG and EMG channels are typical for sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder.
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