Diurnal variation of physiological rhythms in a patient with sleepwalking

摘要: The association between sleepwalking, a non-rapid-eye-movement parasomnia, and biological rhythms has not been subject of research in the past, although shift work is known risk factor disorder. We present case 36-year-old policeman who suffered for years from sleepwalking was referred to hospital polysomnography. All standard investigations including multiple sleep latency or maintenance wakeful test were normal. On contrary, chronobiological assessment revealed phase delay vital functions body temperature, whereas acrophases melatonin cortisol remained stable. postulate an increase fragmentation due work, but further needed substantiate hypothesis.