Sleep Forensics

Bornemann, Michel A. Cramer; Mahowald, Mark W.

doi:10.1016/b978-1-4160-6645-3.00063-3

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“…Despite alcohol intake being previously listed as a "precipitating factor" of confusional arousals, and a "risk factor" for sleepwalking, 57 the scientific evidence of alcohol-induced sleepwalking or confusional arousals as a defense to criminal behavior has been reviewed. 58,59 The recently published International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-3) 10 highlights the absence of a compelling relationship between alcohol use and a disorder of arousal, stating that, in the presence of alcohol intoxication, disorders of arousals should not be diagnosed. The above position complies with the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders edition that has removed alcohol from the list of possible triggers for sleepwalking, adding also a section on the differential diagnosis of alcohol blackout.…”

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