Update on Sexsomnia, Sleep Related Sexual Seizures, and Forensic Implications

Volume 13 No 4 (2015)

Carlos H. Schenck

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2015.13.4.873

Abstract

The first classification of sleep-related disorders and abnormal sexual behaviors and experiences was published in 2007. Parasomnias (abnormal sleep-related behaviors and experiences) and sleep-related epileptic seizures were the most frequent disorders, after Kleine-Levin syndrome (periodic hypersomnia with abnormal wakeful sexual behaviors). The first two conditions were named sexsomnia (sleepsex) and epileptic (ictal) sexsomnia, respectively

Keywords

sexsomnia, sleepsex, sexual behaviors of sleep, temporal lobe epilepsy, ictal orgasm, epileptic sexsomnia, polysomnography, non-REM sleep parasomnia, confusional arousals, obstructive sleep apnea, REM sleep behavior disorder, clonazepam, SSRI, bupropion, shift work, circadian sleep disorder, Parkinson's disease, forensic sleep medicine

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