Sodium oxybate-induced sleep driving and sleep-related eating disorder.

Douglas McKay Wallace, Tanisha Maze, Shirin Shafazand

Department of Neurology, Sleep Medicine Division, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. dwallace@med.miami.edu

Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2011 Jun 15

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Hypnosedative-induced complex behaviors have gained increased attention in recent years as a potential complication of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-receptor agonist use. Sodium oxybate (SO), the sodium salt of γ-hydroxybutyrate, an inhibitory neurotransmitter, has been associated with dose-dependent rates of somnambulism; however, there is limited information about complex motor behaviors with SO. We describe a patient with narcolepsy-cataplexy who experienced one episode of sleep-driving and at least two sleep-related eating episodes with therapeutic doses of SO.

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Douglas McKay Wallace, Tanisha Maze, Shirin Shafazand. Sodium oxybate-induced sleep driving and sleep-related eating disorder. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. 2011 Jun 15;7(3):310-1