Author: Ronald Wolf

 Sleep-Related Eating Disorder: What You Need to Know Behaviors such as sleepwalking or sleep terrors are very common among children, and they generally subside with age. These are classified as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep arousal disorders and are strongly linked to genetics. Adults rarely experience regular episodes of sleepwalking, but there is a whole other phenomenon that can occur in adult age, that connects sleep arousal disorders with eating disorders. Sleep-related eating disorder (SRED) is a parasomnia that involves uncontrolled eating and drinking while in a state of sleep, during the NREM phase in the first half of...