Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-45l2p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T18:58:45.377Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Parasomnias in patients with addictions—a systematic review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Ulises Jiménez-Correa ,
Rafael Santana-Miranda ,
Andrés Barrera-Medina ,
Juan M. Martínez-Núñez ,
Hernán A. Marín-Agudelo ,
Adrián Poblano Open the ORCID record for Adrián Poblano [Opens in a new window] ,
Carlos H. Schenck  and
Irma Hernández-Berber
Ulises Jiménez-Correa
Affiliation:
Clinic of Sleep Disorders, Research Division, School of Medicine, National University of México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico Program in Behavioral Neuroscience, Postgraduate Division, School of Psychology, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, México
Rafael Santana-Miranda
Affiliation:
Clinic of Sleep Disorders, Research Division, School of Medicine, National University of México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Andrés Barrera-Medina
Affiliation:
Clinic of Sleep Disorders, Research Division, School of Medicine, National University of México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Juan M. Martínez-Núñez
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Systems, Metropolitan Autonomous University Campus Xochimilco Mexico City, México
Hernán A. Marín-Agudelo
Affiliation:
Neurology Center and Institute of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, Medellín, Colombia
Adrián Poblano*
Affiliation:
Clinic of Sleep Disorders, Research Division, School of Medicine, National University of México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico Laboratory of Cognitive Neurophysiology, National Institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, México
Carlos H. Schenck
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School; Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Irma Hernández-Berber
Affiliation:
Center for Help to Alcoholics and Families, National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, México
*
*Author for correspondence: Adrián Poblano, Email: drdislexia@yahoo.com.mx
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Parasomnias are involuntary behaviors or subjective experiences during sleep. Our objective was to review existing information on the presence of parasomnias in patients with addictions or during treatment for addictions. Information about parasomnias related to rapid-eye-movement (REM) and non-REM sleep in patients with addictions, while using substances or in abstinence, was reviewed. A systematic search of published articles reporting parasomnias as a consequence of drug use or abuse was conducted in the PubMed and SciELO databases. The search for the studies was performed in three phases: (1) by title, (2) by abstract, and (3) by complete text. The search was performed independently by two researchers, who then compared their results from each screening phase. Seventeen articles were found. The consumption of alcohol was reported in association with arousal disorders, such as sexsomnia and sleep-related eating disorder; and REM sleep behavior disorder was reported during alcohol withdrawal. Cocaine abuse was associated with REM sleep behavior disorder with drug consumption dream content. Overall, we found that several types of parasomnias were very frequent in patients with addictions. To avoid accidents in bedroom, legal problems, and improve evolution and prognosis; must be mandatory to include security measures related to sleep period; avoid pharmacological therapy described as potential trigger factor; improve sleep hygiene; and give pharmacological and behavioral treatments for patients with these comorbid sleep disorders.

Keywords

Abstinenceaddictionnon-REM parasomniasREM parasomniaswithdrawal
Type
Review
Information
CNS Spectrums , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 58 - 65
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Villatoro Velázquez, JA, Resendiz-Escobar, E, Mujica Salazár, A, et al. National survey of consumption of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco 2016-2017. Report of drugs. National Institute of Psychiatry-National Institute of Public Health-National Agency against Addictions. Ciudad de México: INPRFM; 2017.Google Scholar
Chakravorty, S, Chaudhary, NS, Brower, KJ. Alcohol dependence and its relationship with insomnia and other sleep disorders. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2016;40(11):2271–2282.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Berro, LF, Frussa-Filho, R, Tufik, S, et al. Relationship between sleep and addiction: the role of drug environment conditioning. Med Hypotheses. 2014;82(3):374–376.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Terán, A, Majadas, S, Galan, J. Quetiapine in the treatment of sleep disturbances associated with addictive conditions: a retrospective study. Subst Use Misuse. 2008;43(14):2169–2171.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mahowald, MW, Cramer-Bornemann, MA, Schenck, CH. State dissociation, human behavior, and consciousness. Curr Top Med Chem. 2011;11(19):2392–2402.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mahowald, MW, Cramer-Bornemann, MA, Schenck, CH. State dissociation: implications for sleep and wakefulness, consciousness, and culpability. Sleep Med Clin. 2011;6(4):393–400.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ohayon, MM, Guilleminault, C, Priest, RG. Night terrors, sleepwalking, and confusional arousals in the general population: their frequency and relationship to other sleep and mental disorders. J Clin Psychiatry. 1999;60(4):268–276.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schenck, CH, Mahowald, MW. Combined bupropion-levodopa-trazodone therapy of sleep-related eating and sleep disruption in two adults with chemical dependency. Sleep. 2000;23(5):587–588.Google ScholarPubMed
Andersen, M, Poyares, D, Alves, R, et al. Sexsomnia: abnormal sexual behavior during sleep. Brain Res Rev. 2007;56(2):271–282.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fleetham, J, Fleming, J. Parasomnias. CMAJ. 2014;186(8):e273–e280.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schenck, CH, Bundlie, SR, Ettinger, MG, et al. Chronic behavioral disorders of human REM sleep: a new category of parasomnia. Sleep. 1986;9(2):293–308.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schenck, CH, Bundlie, SR, Patterson, AL, et al. Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a treatable parasomnia affecting older adults. JAMA. 1987;257(13):1786–1789.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
American Academy of Sleep Medicine. International Classification of Sleep Disorders. 3rd ed. Darien, IL: American Academy of Sleep Medicine; 2014.Google Scholar
Malhotra, R, Avidan, A. Parasomnias and their mimics. Neurol Clin. 2012;30(4):1067–1094.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schenck, CH, Boyd, JL, Mahowald, MW. A parasomnia overlap disorder involving sleepwalking, sleep terrors, and REM sleep behavior disorder in 33 polysomnographically confirmed cases. Sleep. 1997;20(11):972–981.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Postuma, RB, Arnulf, I, Hogl, B, et al. A single-question screen for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a multicentre validation study. Mov Disord. 2012;27(7):913–916.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moldofsky, H, Russell, G, Lue, F, et al. Sleep-related violence. Sleep. 1995;18(9):731–739.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schenck, C, Arnulf, I, Mahowald, MW. Sleep and sex: what can go wrong? A review of the literature on sleep related disorders and abnormal sexual behaviors and experiences. Sleep. 2007;30(6):683–702.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Béjot, Y, Juenet, N, Garrouty, R, et al. Sexsomnia: an uncommon variety of parasomnia. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2010;112(1):72–75.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schenck, CH, Hurwitz, TD, Bundlie, SR, et al. Sleep-related eating disorders: polysomnographic correlates of a heterogeneous syndrome distinct from daytime eating disorders. Sleep. 1991;14(5):419–431.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schenck, CH, Hurwitz, TD, O’Connor, KA, et al. Additional categories of sleep-related eating disorders and the current status of treatment. Sleep. 1993;16(5):457–466.Google ScholarPubMed
Khazaal, Y, Krenz, S, Zullino, DF. Bupropion-induced somnambulism. Addict Biol. 2003;8(3):359–362.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Colace, C. Dreaming in addiction: a study on the motivational bases of dreaming processes. Neuropsychoanalysis. 2004;6(2):167–181.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sofuoglu, M, Dudish-Poulsen, S, Poling, J, et al. The effect of individual cocaine withdrawal symptoms on cocaine users. Addict Behav. 2005;30(6):1125–1134.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Christo, G, Franey, C. Addicts drug-related dreams: their frequency and relationship to six months outcomes. Subst Use Misuse. 2006;31(1):1–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wetter, DW, Young, TB. The relation between cigarette smoking and sleep disturbance. Prevent Med. 1994;23(3):328–334.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Yee, T, Perantie, DC, Dhanani-Nafisa, DA, et al. Drug dreams in outpatients whit bipolar disorder and cocaine dependence. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2004;192(3):238–242.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Colace, C. Drug dreams in cocaine addiction. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2006;25(2):177.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Colace, C. Drugs dreams in mescaline and LSD addiction. Am J Addict. 2010;19(2):192.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tanguay, H, Zadra, A, Good, D, et al. Relationship between drug dreams, affect, and craving during treatment for substance dependence. J Addict Med. 2015;9(2):123–129.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Reid, S, Simeon, DT. Progression of dreams of crack cocaine abusers as a predictor of treatment outcome: a preliminary report. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2001;189(12):854–857.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Steinig, J, Foraita, R, Happe, S, et al. Perception of sleep and dreams in alcohol-dependent patients during detoxication and abstinence. Alcohol Alcoholism. 2011;46(2):143–147.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sandman, N, Valli, K, Kronholm, E, et al. Nightmares: risk factors among the Finnish general adult population. Sleep. 2015;38(4):507–514.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ma, S, Wu, T, Pi, G. Sleep paralysis in Chinese adolescents: a representative survey. Sleep Biol Rhythms. 2014;12(1):46–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Munezawa, T, Kaneita, Y, Osaki, Y, et al. Nightmare and sleep paralysis among Japanese adolescents: a nationwide representative survey. Sleep Med. 2011;12(1):56–64.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schenck, CH, Hurwitz, TD, Mahowald, MW. REM sleep behavior disorder: an update on a series of 96 patients and a review of the world literature. J Sleep Res. 1993;2(4):224–231.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schenck, CH, Hurwitz, TD, Mahowald, MW. REM sleep behavior disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 1988;145(5):652.Google ScholarPubMed
Plazzi, G, Montagna, P, Meletti, S, et al. Polysomnographic study of sleeplessness and oneiricisms in the alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Sleep Med. 2002;3(3):279–282.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Teman, PT, Tippmann-Peikert, M, Silber, M, et al. Idiopathic rapid-eye-movement sleep disorder: associations with antidepressants, psychiatric diagnoses, and other factors, in relation to age of onset. Sleep Med. 2009;10(1):60–65.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Szucs, A, Kamondi, A, Zoller, R, et al. Violent somnambulism: a parasomnia of young men with stereotyped dream-liked experiences. Med Hypotheses. 2014;83(1):47–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Poyares, D, Oliveira de Almeida CM, Santos da Silva R, et al. Violent behavior during sleep. Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2005;27(suppl.1):22–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thakkar, M, Sharma, R, Sahota, P. Alcohol disrupts sleep homeostasis. Alcohol. 2015;49(4):299–310.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Brower, K. Alcohol’s effects on sleep in alcoholics. Alcohol Res Health. 2001;25(2):110–125.Google ScholarPubMed
Knapp, C, Ciraulo, A, Datta, S. Mechanisms underlying sleep–wake disturbances in alcoholism: focus on the cholinergic pedunculopontine tegmentum. Behav Brain Res. 2014;274:291–301.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Alam, NP, Sinha, KP. Effects of acute ethanol and nicotine intake on REM sleep and its interaction on noradrenergic system in rats. Int J Faun Biol Stud. 2017;4(1):5–11.Google Scholar
Evren, C, Sar, V, Dalbudak, E, et al. Social anxiety and dissociation among male patients with alcohol dependency. Psychiatry Res. 2009;165(3):273–280.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Zhang, L, Samet, J, Caffo, B, et al. Cigarette smoking and sleep architecture. Am J Epidemiol. 2006;164(6):529–537.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jahene, A, Loessl, D, Barkai, Z, et al. Effects of nicotine on sleep during consumption, withdrawal and replacement therapy. Sleep Med. Rev. 2009;13(5):363–377.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sabanayagam, C. Shankar, A. The association between active smoking, smokeless tobacco, second-hand smoke exposure and insufficient sleep. Sleep Med. 2011;12(1):7–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schierenbeck, T, Riemann, D, Berger, M, et al. Effect of illicit recreational drugs upon sleep: cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana. Sleep Med Rev. 2008;12:381–389.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Irwin, MR, Bjurstrom, MF, Olmstead, R. Polysomnographic measures of sleep in cocaine dependence and alcohol dependence: implications for age-related loss of slow wave, stage 3 sleep. Addiction. 2016;111(6):1084–1092.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Perogramvros, L, Aberg, K, Gex-Fabry, M, et al. Increased reward-related behaviors during sleep and wakefulness in sleep walking and idiopathic nightmares. Plos One. 2015;10(8):e0134504.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perogramvros, L, Baud, P, Hasler, R, et al. Active reward processing during human sleep: insights from sleep related eating disorder. Front Neurol. 2012;3:168.Google Scholar
Postuma, R, Gagnon, JF, Tuineaig, M, et al. Antidepressants and REM sleep behavior disorder: isolated side effect or neurodegenerative signal. Sleep. 2013;36(11):1579–1585.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lundetrae, RS, Saxving, IW, Pallesen, S, Aurlien, H, Lehmann, S, Bjorvatn, B. Prevalence of parasomnias in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. A registry-based crosssectional study. Front in Psychology, 2018;9:1–7.Google ScholarPubMed