Since antiquity, the mystery around sleep and its disorders, particularly parasomnias, has stimulated the development of superstitions, myths and tales. In Modern Age, some physicians had tried to explain these phenomena as neuropsychiatric and organic diseases. The definitive acknowledgment of parasomnias as organic disorders occurred only during the twentieth century when sleep medicine became a scientific discipline. Recently, the development of the modern polysomnography has allowed identifying new parasomnias, so the history of parasomnias does not seem to end in the first part of the last century, but new sleep disorders could be identified in future years.
Riva, M., Tremolizzo, L. (2023). History—features, factors, and characteristics of parasomnias. In C.A. Kushida (a cura di), Encyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Reference Work • Second Edition (pp. 1-5). Elsevier Inc. [10.1016/B978-0-12-822963-7.00280-2].
History—features, factors, and characteristics of parasomnias
Riva M. A.;Tremolizzo L.
2023
Abstract
Since antiquity, the mystery around sleep and its disorders, particularly parasomnias, has stimulated the development of superstitions, myths and tales. In Modern Age, some physicians had tried to explain these phenomena as neuropsychiatric and organic diseases. The definitive acknowledgment of parasomnias as organic disorders occurred only during the twentieth century when sleep medicine became a scientific discipline. Recently, the development of the modern polysomnography has allowed identifying new parasomnias, so the history of parasomnias does not seem to end in the first part of the last century, but new sleep disorders could be identified in future years.
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