Psychiatry · Psychiatry / Sleep disorders
Exploding head syndrome
also: Auditory sensory sleep starts
Perception of a loud noise as falling asleep or waking.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Sleep disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, slight female predominance; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Auditory sensory sleep starts
Etiology & mechanism
Brainstem dysfunction at sleep-wake transitions.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
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