Sleepwalking

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sleepwalk at least once in their lifetime range quite a bit. Some sources say that most children will walk in their sleep at least once, with 15% of them more regularly. Others claim that 18% of the population is "prone to ". There is consensus, however, on the fact that boys sleepwalk more frequently than girls and that it is between the ages of 11 and 12 that the most cases of are reported. The fact that most children grow out of it after puberty and that people who start later in life tend to have the problem for the rest of their lives seems to suggest that there are at least two classes of sleepwalkers, which may come from different sources.
most often occurs at a certain point in the sleep "architecture". This is the point where the sleeper's brain waves have become larger and he or she has moved into deeper sleep. This is not REM sleep, but deep non-REM sleep. The patient can also have other REM disorders or psychiatric and medical disorders that do not account for ...

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