Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder

Other specified feeding or eating disorder
Other namesSleep-related eating disorder (SRED), sleep eating, somnambulistic eating
SpecialtyPsychiatry, sleep medicine

Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NSRED) is a combination of a parasomnia and an eating disorder. It is a non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) parasomnia.[1] It is described as being in a specific category within somnambulism or a state of sleepwalking that includes behaviors connected to a person's conscious wishes or wants.[2] Thus many times NSRED is a person's fulfilling of their conscious wants that they suppress; however, this disorder is difficult to distinguish from other similar types of disorders.

  1. ^ Inoue, Y. (2015). Sleep-related eating disorder and its associated conditions. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 69(6), 309–320.
  2. ^ Winkelman, John W (2006). "Sleep-Related Eating Disorder and Night Eating Syndrome: Sleep Disorders, Eating Disorders, Or both?". Sleep. 29 (7): 876–7. doi:10.1093/sleep/29.7.876. PMID 16895252.