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Specific causes of automatism
Published in John Rumbold, Automatism as a Defence in Criminal Law, 2018
Sleep sex has a number of causes: Non-REM parasomnia, sleepwalking and confusional arousalSleep disordered breathingRBDSleep epilepsySleep-related dissociative disordersMedicationMalingering.(Buchanan, 2011)
Sexual Behaviors and Sexual Health of Sexsomnia Individuals Aged 18–58
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2021
Sinem Cankardas, Carlos H. Schenck
Sexsomnia (sleep sex; sexual behavior during sleep [SBS]) is classified as a parasomnia in the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, 3rd edition (ICSD-3). Parasomnias comprise the group of sleep-related behavioral and experiential disorders (American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2014). Instinctual behaviors can be inappropriately released by the parasomnias, including locomotion, aggression, eating and sex that manifest as sleepwalking, REM sleep behavior disorder (with dream-enactment), sleep-related eating disorder, and sexsomnia (American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2014). Sexsomnia is designated as “Sleep-Related Abnormal Sexual Behaviors” in the ICSD-3, where it is classified as a clinical subtype of Disorders of Arousal from Non-Rapid-Eye-Movement (NREM) sleep (consisting of Confusional Arousals, Sleepwalking, and Sleep [Night] Terrors). The full range of sexuality is expressed with sexsomnia, including masturbation, sexual fondling, spontaneous orgasms, sexual intercourse/attempted intercourse, and sexual vocalizations/verbalizations (“sleepsextalking”).
Sex differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response following a single or multiple days of sleep restriction
Published in Stress, 2020
Katelyn N. Buban, Elizabeth A. Shupe, Stephen W. Rothwell, T. John Wu
Similarly, following three days of sleep restriction, there was a main effect of sleep on Pomc (F(1, 26) = 18.57, p < .001; Figure 3(B)), Crfr1 (F(1, 28) = 11.37, p < .01; Figure 3(D)), MR (F(1, 27) = 4.339, p < .05; Figure 3(F)) and GR (F(1, 26) = 5.103, p < .05; Figure 3(H)) mRNA expression. In addition, a significant main effect of sex was also found on MR (F(1, 27) = 15.19, p < .001; Figure 3(F)) and GR (F(1, 26) = 14.83, p < .001; Figure 3(H)) mRNA expression. No other main effects or interactions were found (all F’s≤ 1.34). While none of the genes showed a significant sleep × sex interaction, some figures suggest that for some variables the effect of sleep may differ slightly between males and females. However, these differences did not reach statistical significance.