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| Sleep paralysis is defined as rapid eye movement parasomnia and a period of the inability to perform voluntary movements at sleep onset or upon awakening. Sleep paralysis may occur as isolated or familial forms, or as one of the classic tetrad of narcolepsy symptoms [1]. A few factors are believed to predispose individuals to sleep paralysis including irregular sleep habits, sleep deprivation, and other disturbances of the sleep-wake rhythm, mental stress, overtiredness, and sleeping in the supine position. Comparable to the sleep paralysis, the term ‘‘Kabus’’ has been frequently used by the medieval Persian physicians. The condition was described as a feeling of heavy presence sitting on the chest, pressing the person down and causing difficulty in breathing. Later, the victim would not be able to move or speak with a distressing feeling of suffocation. The person would wake up in terror after the condition subsided. In medieval Persian medicine, Kabus (sleep paralysis) was considered as the prelude to three different diseases: epilepsy, stroke and mania. Similar descriptions could be found in Rhazes’s Liber Continens, Akhawayni’s Hidayat, Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine, and Jorjani’s Treasure of Khwarazmshah [1]. Alcohol consumption has been recently blamed for triggering sleep paralysis [2,3]. This however, does not seem to be a recent finding. In the seventh chapter of the first volume of his Liber Continens, Rhazes (865–925 AD), the Persian polymath, devoted a section on epilepsy, sleep paralysis, febrile convulsion, and nightmare. Therein, he first states that ‘‘. . . and Kabus (sleep paralysis) could occur in individuals following alcohol consumption’’.... [4]. It was not until the sixteenth century that the next description of association between alcohol and sleep paralysis was revealed by Philip Barrough (Elizabethan surgeon and physician) [5]. In fact, Rhazes’s notion is probably the first description of what is known today as alcohol-mediated sleep paralysis. |
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| صمد اسلام جمال گلزاری | اول |
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| L-Sleep.pdf | 1398/09/11 | 189434 | دانلود |
