What's the matter with sleepwalking?

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Sleepwalking is getting out of bed during sleep, so treatment has become a hot topic. And then go back to bed to sleep. In neurology, it is a kind of sleep disorder, the symptoms are generally walking in the residence in the semi awake state, but some patients will leave the residence or make some dangerous behaviors. So let's share the story of sleepwalking?.

What's the matter with sleepwalking?

First: sleepwalking is mainly the result of human cerebral cortex activity. Brain activity, including "excitation" and "inhibition" two processes. Usually, when people sleep, the cells in the cerebral cortex are in a state of inhibition. If at this time there are a group or groups of nerve cells controlling the movement is still excited, it will produce sleepwalking. The scope of sleepwalking action is often the most familiar environment and the action that sleepwalkers often do repeatedly. Sleepwalking is often a popular topic. People are very surprised by the phenomenon of sleepwalking, but also have a series of obvious prejudice against it.

Second, most people think that sleepwalkers may bump around like blind people. In fact, their eyes are half open or all open, and their walking posture is the same as usual. Ordinary people also think that sleepwalkers are brave and dare to do some dangerous and terrifying actions. In fact, sleepwalkers rarely do things that go beyond the routine, and rarely make harmful offensive behaviors when they are sleepwalking. Of course, sleepwalkers sometimes fall and bump because of distraction.

Third: ordinary people also have a prejudice that sleepwalkers should not be awakened casually because they will be scared out of their wits when they wake up suddenly. In fact, it's hard for a sleepwalker to wake up. Even if he wakes up, he won't go crazy. He just feels confused. Some people think that sleepwalking is actually a dream, but psychologists have observed that sleepwalking often occurs in the non rapid eye movement period with few dreams.

matters needing attention

Sleepwalking is a kind of brain dysfunction related to sleep. Under normal circumstances, in the rapid eye movement phase of sleep, the brain will transmit action instructions to the muscle motor system, such as the dream of fire, the brain will command the feet to run desperately. But people also have a blocking mechanism, can not let the signal transmitted to the muscle motor system during sleep, so that people can sleep safely in bed. But if this kind of mechanism is maladjusted, the person can have action, appear sleepwalking phenomenon. The sleepwalking we see mostly occurs in the stage of non REM sleep, which belongs to dreamless sleep in EEG. Somnambulists fall asleep physically, but partially on the sensory side; The cerebral cortex is in a state of inhibition, but there are isolated excitatory foci.