Psychiatry · Psychiatry / Sleep disorders
Sleep paralysis syndrome
also: Recurrent isolated sleep paralysis
Inability to move on waking or falling asleep.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Sleep disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes, adolescents
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Recurrent isolated sleep paralysis
Etiology & mechanism
REM-sleep atonia persisting into wakefulness.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
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