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ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2023

A challenging case of sexsomnia in an adolescent female presenting with depressive-like symptoms.

João Brás, Carlos H Schenck, Rui Andrade, Ana Pinto Costa, Carlos Teixeira, Miguel Meira E Cruz

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Article in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Sleep-Related Eating Disorder and Sexsomnia; Two Rare Parasomnias? A Mini-Review with Illustrative Case-Reports.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

João BrásDepartment of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
Carlos H SchenckMinnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center and Departments of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Rui AndradeDepartment of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
Ana Pinto CostaDepartment of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
Carlos TeixeiraInstituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte-CESPU, Famalicão, Portugal.
Miguel Meira E CruzInstituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte-CESPU, Famalicão, Portugal.
Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu · PTCooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário · PTInstituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte - CESPUUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sleep-related sexualized behaviors occur in the parasomnia known as sexsomnia, recognized as a variant of confusional arousals in the CITATION: Brás J, Schenck CH, Andrade R, et al. A challenging case of sexsomnia in an adolescent female presenting with depressive-like symptoms.

Indexed as

ParasomniasSleep Arousal DisordersSleep Wake DisordersAdolescentFemaleHumansMalePolysomnographySexual BehaviorSleepadolescencecognitive behavioral therapydepressionfemalesNREM parasomniasexsomniasexual behaviors in sleepstress

Identifiers

PMID37421331
PMCPMC10546004
OpenAlexW4383652457

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Registered trials

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