What causes sleepwalking? Explore the principles of sleepwalking

In medicine, sleepwalking is called "sleepwalking", which mainly refers to the situation where one suddenly gets up from the bed during sleep and performs a series of activities, then goes back to sleep, and wakes up with no memory of the previous activities. The harm of sleepwalking is still relatively large, so what are the causes of it?

Psychosocial factors

Some children suffer from sleepwalking related to psychosocial factors, such as disrupted daily routine, environmental stress, anxiety and fear, family discord, poor parent-child relationship, study stress and poor test scores.

Deep sleep

Since sleepwalking often occurs in the first 1/3 of deep sleep, various factors that deepen sleep, such as excessive fatigue during the day, lack of sleep due to staying up late for several days in a row, and taking sleeping pills before bedtime, can induce the occurrence of sleepwalking.

Genetic factors

Family investigations have shown that most sleepwalking patients have a positive family history, and the comorbidity rate among monozygotic twins is six times higher than that among dizygotic twins, indicating that the disease has a certain relationship with genetic factors.

Developmental factors

Since the disease often occurs in childhood and gradually stops with age, it suggests that sleepwalking may be related to delayed development of the cerebral cortex.