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Other specified feeding or eating disorder | |
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Other names | Sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), sleep eating, somnambulistic eating |
Specialty | Psychiatry, 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.